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Unboxing Day: A Battlestar Suburbia Christmas story
Ho ho ho! It's nearly Christmas, and to celebrate, we have a brand-new short story by Chris McCrudden, author of the Battlestar Suburbia series. Tune in every Friday for the next four weeks and discover what really happens on Unboxing Day... EPISODE...
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Writing in a satirical age: The origin story of The Great American Cheese War
Paul Flower, the author of The Great American Cheese War, shares his personal take on why satire is the weapon for our times. Crazy world we have here. In the U.S., 40 percent of the electorate is under the spell...
The “difficult” second album
Author Isabel Rogers gives a behind-the-scenes view of the making of her second novel, Bold As Brass - coming to a bookshop near you this July. Cover by the clever people at Head Design, who also did Life, Death and...
Five Secret Things About Orchestras
Isabel Rogers, author of Life, Death and Cellos, spills the beans on what really goes on behind those music stands... I could never have written Life, Death and Cellos if I hadn’t spent a lot of time playing in orchestras....
Christmas in July – the problems of writing out of season
Jane Lovering, author of Christmas Secrets by the Sea, reflects on how to get that festive feeling during a heatwave It comes as a surprise to many of my friends that writing a book isn’t an instant process. Although I...
Magical Mystery Paws on tour
We're very excited to be bringing you Magical Mystery Paws, a new cosy mystery in the No. 2 Feline Detective Agency series by Mandy Morton - it will be available from bookshops near you from Thursday 12 July. But if...
Orchestral Manoeuvres in Stockwell Park
Farrago Books has acquired poet Isabel Rogers’ fiction debut, Life, Death and Cellos, in a two-book deal bringing the baton down on the Stockwell Park Orchestra Mystery series. The series, following the adventures of an amateur orchestra in London, is...
Listen up! Audiobooks to make you smile
Have you discovered the joy of audiobooks yet? They're a fabulous way to enjoy great stories when you're travelling, keeping fit, working, relaxing - in fact, almost all the time! Here's a list of all our current titles. We hope...
Win a prize from The Literary Gift Company in the new Farrago newsletter
The latest Farrago newsletter has just landed, packed with news of bookish goings on at Farrago HQ. If you missed your copy, don't worry - you can sign up for the next edition on our home page. In the newsletter,...
The Making of a Mystery Writer
Sarah J. Mason, known to fans of the Miss Seeton Mystery series as Hamilton Crane, describes how she first caught the mystery habit… To paraphrase Mark Twain: two or three persons having at different times intimated that if I would...
Seetons, Lobelias and Brokkenbroll: the umbrellas that got away
We're delighted to welcome to the Farrago Books blog Marion Rankine, unrivalled expert in all things umbrella-related in the literary world. Marion's wonderful book Brolliology was published in November by Melville House. One of the beautiful and terrible things...
Start the New Year with a chuckle!
Happy New Year from everyone at Farrago Books! We hope you had a wonderfully relaxing holiday, with plenty of time for curling up with a good book. If the thought of going back to work is making you feel blue,...
Win books on the Farrago Advent Calendar!
Christmas is about lots of things: being together, playing games, eating too much and - best of all - presents! Here at Farrago, we got into the Christmas spirit early, with the launch of our Advent Calendar on Twitter on...