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 »
Over the past 10 days, leading up to the UK publication of Footprints, David Farrier has been collecting brief glimpses at possible future fossils in his Twitter feed, the sort of thing you can see explained at further length, depth and detail in the book itself, called a “fascinating peek at the deep future” by… 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 The Award is open to unrepresented and unpublished authors for a novel in any adult fiction genre, with a deadline of May… Read more »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’s the final month of the final year of the decade… and you know what that means. Yep, in just under three weeks we’ll be in the Roaring Twenties 2: Roar Harder™. Flapper hats and Charleston swingsteps at the ready! But first, there’s the little matter of the 2019 Books of the Year and the… Read more »
Congratulations to Nick Jubber, Dan Richards, and Chloe Daykin, making the shortlists for Travel Book of the Year, Adventure Travel Book of the Year, and Children’s Travel Book of the Year, respectively. Winners in each category will be presented with a hand-made globe, with the winner of the Travel Book of the Year receiving an… Read more »
Waterstones has released its annual Paperback of the Year list and we are delighted to see four of our authors feature. Seashaken Houses: A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet and Lords of the Desert: Britain’s Struggle with America to Dominate the Middle-East were both previously Waterstones Fiction Book of the Month picks, while Middle… 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 »
Change was rife at the FBAtrium last month as administrator and digital manager Amy left Oxford for a new life with her boyfriend in London (there was cake, there was champagne, there was sadness). Alice—who’d previously run admin for the Oxford Creative Writing MSt—joined the team in her stead, though, and former intern Aoife (ex-Waterstones)… Read more »