Prestigious French film company Haut et Court have optioned Anna Hope’s “profoundly intelligent and humane” (Guardian) Expectation for an English-language feature length drama adapted and directed by Clémence Poésy, the acclaimed actor and filmmaker whose last short, The Tears Thing, was screened in Official Competition at the 2019 Venice Film Festival. Anna studied English at… 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 »
We are delighted to announce that Steve Coogan’s production company Baby Cow has optioned Gill Hornby’s Miss Austen for a long-form TV drama. “Gill has brought such wit, ingenuity and heartbreaking tenderness to this literary mystery, turning it into a terrifically compelling and relevant novel,” said Baby Cow CEO Christine Langan. “Not only does she… Read more »
Writer, presenter and ‘undercover economist’ Tim Harford has launched an exciting new podcast, Cautionary Tales, with Pushkin Industries, a company co-founded by Jacob Weisberg and non-fiction megastar Malcolm Gladwell. We tell our children unsettling fairy tales to teach them valuable life lessons, but these Cautionary Tales are for the education of the grown ups –… Read more »
The clocks have run backwards and All Hallows’ Eve is almost upon us, so this month we’ve decided to question the FBA offices about the scariest books ever written. But first, what’s been happening in October? Well, across the country, an F word has been on everyone’s lips, but in the book world that F… Read more »
MIDDLE ENGLAND by Jonathan Coe has been optioned by BBC Studios with Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais (Porridge, The Likely Lads) attached as screenwriters.
The TV rights to COSA NOSTRA by John Dickie have been optioned by Wildside (producers of My Brilliant Friend, and The Young Pope starring Jude Law)
The Film & TV rights to MISS AUSTEN by Gill Hornby have been optioned by award-winning production company Baby Cow Productions (Philomena, Stan & Ollie, This Time with Alan Partridge)
The UK premiere of YULI – a film based on Carlos Acosta‘s memoir, NO WAY HOME – is at the Glasgow Film Festival on 23 February, before going on general release on 12 April. Watch the official film trailer here.