An extract from the first chapter of A History of Women in 101 Objects: ‘Healed femur’, read by Gillian Anderson.
The hardback of the book is available now, the audiobook will be published on 5 March 2024, featuring 101 notable women including Margaret Atwood, Olivia Colman, Elif Shafak and more still to be announced. Canongate will donate a portion of the sales of the audiobook to Refuge, supporting women and their children experiencing domestic abuse.
Listen, by turns discursive, celebratory and reflective, is a beautifully written and endlessly readable paean to music, examining both the role that it plays in our lives and what it has meant to Faber himself.
Observer
Nick Cave sat down with Krishnan Guru-Murthy on the paperback release of Faith, Hope and Carnage to discuss the book, music, writing, happiness, loss, religion and more.
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