Faber has decided it will no longer supply Sally Rooney's books in the UK after Rooney publicly said she would continue to support Palestine Action, which was proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the UK in July 2025. Rooney told the Guardian she intends to use proceeds from UK sales to support Palestine Action, and said fulfilling UK publishing contracts could now constitute a criminal offence under Section 15 of the Terrorism Act, which carries a maximum sentence of 14 years. Rooney cancelled a planned trip to the UK to collect an award because she feared arrest, and an independent producer warned that paying royalties for BBC dramatisations could breach terrorism laws if those funds were suspected to fund the proscribed group. Faber said it cannot pass on UK earnings to Rooney and that selling a writer's work while withholding their earnings is unconscionable, so in agreement with Rooney it will stop supplying her work in the UK while continuing to sell her books in other territories. Faber also said copies already held by UK retailers will not be removed from sale. Rooney's novels have been commercially successful in the UK: Normal People has sold more than 1 million copies, Conversations With Friends and Beautiful World, Where Are You have each sold more than 500,000, and the Normal People TV adaptation achieved 62.7 million views, becoming the BBC's most-streamed series of 2020.
