An exciting day for us at FBA as we see not just the new book from A.C. Grayling, but also the paperback release of Taking Up Space: The Black Girl’s Manifesto for Change. A.C. Grayling was born in Zambia, raised in Malawi, and settled on his vocation at age fourteen, after reading G. H. Lewes’s… Read more »
TV Update: Seeing Matthew on The One Show last night – with the pupil he helped overcome his stammer on Educating Yorkshire, Musharaf Asghar – was a hugely moving experience. Mushy spoke with wit and warmth about his life since the documentary, about helping other stammerers, and about his new career speaking motivationally, just as… Read more »
Chelsea Kwakye and Ore Ogunbiyi’s Taking Up Space: The Black Girl’s Manifesto for Change has been optioned for TV in a lucrative deal by Sid Gentle Films, the company behind BBC America’s Killing Eve and ITV’s The Durrells. The book, which was the 2019 flagship title of Stormzy’s imprint Merky Books, has been called “brilliant”… Read more »
Called the most elegant and atmospheric of literary festivals by none other than Colin Thubron, the Oxford Lit Fest is one of the highlights of the bookish year, and as usual it’s packed to the elegant sandstone domes with a vast array of our authors talking wisdom on a vast array of topics. And so,… Read more »
We’re delighted that our wonderful fiction agents Carrie and Caroline, plus our author Anna Hope, writer of last year’s critically acclaimed Expectation, will be judging this year’s Blue Pencil Agency First Novel Award. The Award is open to unrepresented and unpublished authors for a novel in any adult fiction genre, with a deadline of May… Read more »
It was a pleasure to tune in this morning to hear Gill speak so eloquently and passionately about her new novel on Radio 4. The full interview is available to catch up with on BBC Sounds – after the moving and inspiring interview with Gail Porter – but here are a few choice snippets… GILL:… Read more »
Nina graduated from Oxford with an English degree in 2018 – and she is very pleased to be back! After unversity, she completed an editorial internship at an arts and culture magazine before spending four months travelling around South America. On her return, she worked in the marketing department of a law firm and was… Read more »
Last year, Jonathan Coe grew a beard. Since this distinguished chin-growth, he’s been shortlisted for the Prix Fémina and won the Prix du Livre Européen, and now, on Monday night, he added the Costa Best Novel Award to his cabinet. Some might say this is due to the literary qualities of Middle England, the third… Read more »
It’s one thing to be a Book of the Year, but quite another to be a Book of the Decade, and so sizzling congratulations are in order to Edmund and Peter as The Hare with Amber Eyes and The Silk Roads, respectively, make the Sunday Times Culture Best of the Decade List. “In a decade… Read more »
We are thrilled to see the founder of our agency and all-round superagent Felicity Bryan recognised in the New Year Honours for Services to Publishing, joining the likes of Gok Wan, Gabby Logan, and Cricket heroes Jos Buttler and Joe Root in being made an MBE in the 2020 list. It also saw a Damehood… Read more »