In June 2020, Felicity passed away peacefully at her home in Oxfordshire, surrounded by her beloved family and equally beloved garden, prompting a flood of tributes from all the lives she had touched. “She was not just about promoting an author — she nurtured them, she encouraged them, she was a positive force,” said Lionel… Read more »
The circumstances are conflicting, and it is a clear indictment of the publishing industry that it has taken until 2020 for a black British woman to reach the #1 spot, but we remain immensely proud of Reni and all the work she has done, including – but going much further than – Why I’m No… Read more »
Everyone knows that it is vastly easier to counsel fortitude than to exemplify it. But what was the counsel that made some of the sterling figures of Roman antiquity so sterling? The answer is Stoicism. The two greatest figures of late Stoicism were, respectively, an emperor and a slave: Marcus Aurelius, and Epictetus. They share… Read more »
We are very proud that Reni Eddo-Lodge’s book Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race was number one in the overall book chart on Amazon UK this week. Her insightful podcast ‘About Race’ is also currently the number one podcast on iTunes. At Felicity Bryan Associates, we believe Black Lives Matter… Read more »
Congratulations to Ursula Buchan and Simon Lelic, who have been nominated for the H.R.F Keating Award (for the best biographical book related to crime fiction) and the Best Crime Fiction Novel for Children for Beyond the 39 Steps and The Haven, respectively. Ursula’s biography of her famous grandfather was also nominated for an Edgar, awarded… Read more »
How We Live Now is a series of pieces about these uncertain times, in the spirit of what the Guardian recently called ‘thoughtful, nuanced portrayals of life under altered circumstances’. Lucy Mangan was referring to Meg Rosoff’s classic novel How I Live Now, the inspiration for our title. ‘Companions’, by Emma Smith for Elizabeth and Tadlow I…. Read more »
After bringing you a poem for the last How We Live Now we’ve gone even further outside of the (2m) box with a beautiful set of “isolation portraits” by photographer extraordinaire, Fran Monks (not directly an FBA client, but the wife of one). Here’s Fran herself on this project: As my paid commissions were all… Read more »
This series came from our initial response to the worldwide crisis. As well as Zoom interviews to highlight the agents’ ways of working, we called out to our authors to write something – anything they thought appropriate – as a response to their experience being in lockdown during a global pandemic. We asked them how… Read more »
How We Live Now is a series of pieces about these uncertain times, in the spirit of what the Guardian recently called ‘thoughtful, nuanced portrayals of life under altered circumstances’. Lucy Mangan was referring to Meg Rosoff’s classic novel How I Live Now, the inspiration for our title. ‘Soap, Lemons, Paracetamol’ by Rhidian Brook… Read more »
After The Well-Gardened Mind narrowly missed out on the top 10 by a single place last week, we were so, so pleased to see it rise by two spots to secure a comfortable position- along with Catherine Belton’s long-awaited book on Putin, Russia, and the KGB, Putin’s People, which went straight in at #4 to… Read more »