They are commercially successful and have latterly been heavily marketed, but by no means can they be typecast as ‘comfort fiction’. His books are difficult to classify they vary from novella length to magnum opus, and can be read as unusual hybrid thrillers, gothic tales with touches of romance and horror, the ghost story, and even science fiction. Michel Faber has been hailed as ‘a master of the spine tingling page turner’, a writer whose imagination ‘visits the strangest of places and makes them real’ ( The Scotsman).Īmong the places he conjures up are the Scottish Highlands, an isolated chateau in Belgium, an archaeological dig at Yorkshire’s Whitby Abbey and - in his recent best-selling novel The Crimson Petal and the White (2002) – the low brothels and elegant squares of Victorian London. His most recent books are Vanilla Bright Like Eminem (2007), a further short story collection, and the two novels The Fire Gospel (2008) and The Book of Strange New Things (2014), which he says will be his last novel. His collection of stories, The Apple (2006) continues the tale of some of the characters from The Crimson Petal and the White.
The Crimson Petal and the White (2002), is set in Victorian England and tells the story of Sugar, a 19-year-old prostitute. Other fiction includes The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps (1999), a novella, and The Courage Consort (2002), the story of an a cappella singing group.
His first novel, Under the Skin (2000), was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and he has also won the Neil Gunn Prize and an Ian St James Award. His short story 'Fish' won the Macallan/Scotland on Sunday Short Story Competition in 1996 and is included in his first collection of short stories, Some Rain Must Fall and Other Stories (1998), winner of the Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Award. He moved with his family to Australia in 1967 and has lived in Scotland since 1992. Novelist and short-story writer Michel Faber was born in Holland.
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