Simon and Schuster have acquired world rights all languages in Julie Summers’ new book, provisionally entitled THE MOST POWERFUL WOMAN IN LONDON, for publication in 2020. The book’s central figure is Audrey Withers, who edited Vogue through the difficult years of World War Two in London, combining glamour with practical information, and skilfully managing the… Read more »
Violet Moller’s The Map of Knowledge – How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found, a History in Seven Cities, to be published by Macmillan UK and Doubleday US, has sold in Italy to Francesco Anzelmo at Mondadori and in Spain to Miguel Aguilar at Taurus.
We are delighted to welcome Robin Ganderton to the FBA team! Born in Wales, Robin studied literature at York and has just completed a master’s in Creative Writing at Oxford. His short stories have won or been shortlisted for various prizes – including the PEN International New Voices Award – and in 2016 and 2017… Read more »
Huge congratulations to Will Eaves for making the shortlist for the Goldsmiths Prize 2018 with MURMUR. “Murmur is a novel of multiple ideas, which seems right given its main protagonist, Alec Pryor, is loosely based on the predicament of the philosophical mathematician, Alan Turing. It is also a novel forged from an immensely beautiful writing intelligence. Murmur is… Read more »
As part of the campaign to celebrate women’s voices across the literary world, The Women’s Prize for Fiction in partnership with Natwest bank has launched a Young Adult Reading List. We are thrilled that the chosen book for July is Meg Rosoff’s HOW I LIVE NOW, a powerful and unforgettable story of New York teenager, Daisy… Read more »