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 »
Congratulazioni to David Almond and Meg Rosoff, who have been announced as winners of this year’s prestigious Premio Letteratura Ragazzi, an international prize awarded to the best books for children published in Italy. David’s book The Dam (La Diga), illustrated by Levi Pinfold and published by Walker Books (UK) and Salani (Italy), triumphed in the… Read more »
Nominations were released today for the prestigious Carnegie and Greenaway medals, awarded to books written in English for children and young people that create an outstanding reading experiences through writing and illustration, respectively. And our authors made a very good showing indeed. FBA’ers nominated for the Carnegie Medal were… Linda Newbery, with The Key to… 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 »
It’s a Thursday evening and we are in for a treat—off to the bright lights and bustle of Southwark and the brilliant Unicorn Theatre, nestling in the lee of the glittering Shard. The foyer is full of schoolchildren still in uniform – as well as teachers, reviewers, and general punters – and the buzz is… Read more »
Former BBC Beijing correspondent and author of three acclaimed spy thrillers Adam Brookes’ Fragile Cargo tells the extraordinary true story of the evacuation of China’s Forbidden City art collection to hiding places in the western provinces, as the Japanese forces advanced during World War Two. UK and Commonwealth rights have been sold at auction to… Read more »