As 2021 begins, let’s see which FBA titles have been highlighted by national newspapers and magazines as ones to watch this year… The Guardian Bone Music by David Almond (Hodder, April) The Skellig author’s new novel focuses on a young girl who moves from Newcastle to rural Northumberland and finds herself “rewilded”. How to Love… Read more »
The Professor of Global History at the University of Oxford and author of The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World, and The First Crusade: the Call from the East, joins around 600 of the very best novelists, short-story writers, poets, playwrights, graphic… Read more »
It’s that time again, and if you’re anything like me, you got your tree up early this year… only to have to take it down again because you have a new kitten. But this isn’t about an unutterably cute she-devil. It’s not even about Christmas. It’s about the amazing books we published this year, and… Read more »
The Great Godden, Meg’s Rosoff’s “dreamy, seductive coming-of-age tale” and The Voyage of the Sparrowhawk, Natsha Farrant’s “compelling, joyous, tearjerking and delightful” adventure story, have both been shortlisted for this year’s Costa awards, making fully half the Children’s shortlist hail from our wonderful stable of FBA writers. The Costas have recently been a place of… Read more »
With the history big hitters – not to mention the cookbooks and novels from national treasures – the wonderful children’s books we represent can often be criminally undertreated. So, this post is all about putting those magical wordsmiths front and centre, as they deserve – along with celebrating the myriad successes that have recently been… Read more »
Although primarily known as a bestselling children’s author – the magical mind behind such classics as (Costa-winning) Maggot Moon, I, Coriander, and Invisible in a Bright Light (recently nominated for the Carnegie along with two other FBA titles) – Sally Gardner also writes novels for adults… the “irresistible” (Guardian) An Almond for a Parrot, under… Read more »
Reni Eddo-Lodge’s prize-winning debut has officially hit FIFTY weeks in the bestseller list – an amazing achievement for a vital, vital book, and one that follows on from her becoming the first Black-British author ever to top the overall UK charts since Nielsen book records began. THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION NARRATIVE… Read more »
1. The Search Party You won’t believe the twist in this compulsive new top ten bestseller from the ‘Stephen King-like’ Simon Lelic, screams the blurb, and this ‘hugely gripping’ (Mark Billingham) and ‘heart-stopping’ (Elly Griffiths) thriller is just the ticket for the spookiest day of the year. You see, 16-year-old Sadie Saunders is missing. And… Read more »
Readers looking to snuggle up with a cracking good read ahead of the fireworks (that’s Bonfire Night, not the US election) are in for a real treat this year with two of Britain’s most lauded novelists releasing much-anticipated new books on the very same day. **The dazzling new novel from the prize-winning, bestselling author of… Read more »
The world at present is uncertain, unpredictable, often scary. With anxiety around every corner, we are searching for one thing more than ever right now – comfort. And that, it seems, is why the British public have been buying Mary Berry’s new cookbook in their droves (as you can do from a range of online… Read more »