According to the Guardian: Combining their iconic brands and editorial expertise along with the Guardian’s international reach, the new partnership will create a unique publishing proposition, with a list which will span agenda-setting current affairs, sport, humour, science and technology, health, cookery and culture.
Guardian Faber will showcase the Guardian and Observer’s world-class writers - as well as a wide range of other high quality authors - and will commission up to twenty new non-fiction works each year. In both physical and digital formats, the publications will be international and challenging, incisive and innovative, and aim to connect with readers and their varied interests.
Highlights of the forthcoming Guardian Faber list include:
• Facts Are Sacred (April) by Simon Rogers - a sumptuous full-colour hardback and interactive ebook celebrating the power of data visualisation
• Racing Hard (June) by the Guardian’s cycling columnist William Fotheringham - a retrospective of two tumultuous decades in cycling
• Untangling the Web (July) by the Guardian’s Tech Weekly podcast host Aleks Krotoski - an investigation into the personal impact of the internet
• Undercover (July) by the Guardian’s Paul Lewis and Rob Evans - the definitive account of Britain's sordid history of undercover policing, by the journalists who exposed the Mark Kennedy scandal
• Tales from the Secret Footballer (November) featuring the stories of the Secret Footballer's friends and teammates, the sequel to the bestselling I Am The Secret Footballer (out in paperback this September)
The publishing team includes Sara Montgomery, Head of Guardian Books, Katie Roden, Guardian Books Publisher and Julian Loose, Publisher for Arts and Non-Fiction at Faber. The team will also be appointing a new Commissioning Editor for Guardian Faber who will have a central role in shaping and developing the list.
Sara Montgomery, Head of Guardian Books, said: “We are really proud to be partnering with Faber and Faber, with whom we share many of the same brand values, including independence, innovation and quality. By combining these values with our joint commitment to bold publishing, digital expertise and our ability to nurture a direct to consumer relationship, we believe that this unique imprint will ensure that books will remain current, relevant and discoverable.”
Stephen Page, CEO at Faber, said: "We're thrilled to be partnering in this venture with Guardian News & Media. This publishing business will have at its heart a unique combination of access to brilliant writers and copyrights alongside a direct conversation with readers through the Guardian's extraordinary relationship with tens of millions consumers worldwide. We believe that Faber's publishing expertise married to the Guardian’s powerful brand and relationships offers a new kind of publishing opportunity."
The partnership will also see Faber taking over full sales and distribution responsibility from Cornerstone with immediate effect. Foreign rights will also be handled by Faber.
