To celebrate the release of Lucy’s fabulous new novel The Austen Girls, we’ve been running an Easter giveaway on Twitter! The response was so huge we rootled around the FBAtrium and discovered some more of Lucy’s novels – to make FIVE prizes in total – the full set above, Austen Girls on its own, and… Read more »
For decades after moving into radio, James Naughtie has been a BBC superstar, presenting the flagship Today programme for over twenty years – being named the “best voice to wake up to” in a countrywide poll – and covering every election, British and American, since he began. It’s the second of those countries that’s the… Read more »
More and more artistic institutions are providing lockdown content, but this might be the most beautiful yet. Introduced by Birmingham Royal Ballet director and FBA client Carlos Acosta, this three minutes of ethereal – yet incredibly human – artistry, is a tonic to our souls. Pianist Jonathan Higgins, cellist António Novais and ballet superstar Céline… Read more »
Based on a literary mystery that has long puzzled biographers, Miss Austen is a wonderfully original and emotionally complex novel about the loves and lives of Cassandra and Jane Austen, and it’s on audiobook read by none other than Juliet Stevenson – whose versions of all six original Austen books were sublime. Beautiful narration, beautiful… Read more »
The Bruno series has sold over 3m copies in Germany alone, but the great detective’s cooking is almost as famous as his crime-solving, so it’s no surprise to the second in the series, Bruno’s Garten Kochbuch, scoop the prestigious Gourmand International for Best French Cookbook – just as the original did. In other Bruno news, the… Read more »
Spring has sprung (well, the clocks have changed) and since the Lord of Misrule seems to have taken up permanent residence we thought we’d eschew the irreverent date as redundant and instead do a round up of our upcoming April books… and trust us, there are no fools here. We’ll start with the adult non-fiction… Read more »
Interviewed by Christiane Amanpour, Karen talks about the impact social distancing is having on religious communities around the world, and discusses methods for coping, both physical and spiritual. “We don’t have to go to Church to be in touch with the Sacred or the Divine,” she begins, and goes on to tell the story of… Read more »
In the current climate, posting about books on the internet – which is, after all, an increasingly large part of our job – can feel somewhat disconcerting, as if we should be ceasing anything resembling “frivolity” and concentrating on retweeting medical advice; graphs and predictions; heartfelt pleas to small sections of the general public to… Read more »
Matt Ridley – award-winning author of Genome, The Rational Optimist, and The Evolution of Everything – is back with what he believes could be his best book – and best-seller – yet, quite a statement given his towering backlist… The official release date is two months from today, but Matt is already hard at work in… Read more »
The inaugural Bruno Fellowship is a nine-month reporting opportunity for an early to mid-career journalist, sponsored by Martin Walker’s Bruno Foundation and facilitated by Coda Story. The Fellowship will fund one ambitious investigative project culminating in a single story or series of impactful stories, unearthing information that powerful forces do not want to see the… Read more »