Faber Stories

Faber & Faber focuses on illustration for short story collection

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.
From precious rediscoveries to gender-playful fictions, futurist fables to uncanny imaginings, here are stories by a new generation of Faber authors alongside Faber classics.
Bringing together past, present and future in our ninetieth year, Faber Stories is a celebratory compendium of collectable work. The selection has been put together in collaboration with Gaby Wood.

Covers for the Faber Stories collection bring together 90 years of writing using classic Berthold Wolpe type and a neon coral colour palette.
The publishing house worked with 20 different illustrators to create the covers, which had to reflect a range of work from the 1930s to present day - including a previously unpublished Sylvia Plath tale.
In-house designer Jonathan Pelham, who oversaw the project, says bringing together such a diverse set of short stories was a "daunting task". "The most trouble-free route would have been to opt for a more Spartan type-on-a-grid design, but we were keen that each story should have its own visual presence,"