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#sundayMorningBookChat little late - I’m on holiday and reading a staggering rate! For those with a week off for half term, what are you reading this week? I’m working my way through two: Felix and the future agency by Rachel Morrison and the Museum of lost umbrellas by Marie Louise Fitzpatrick

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Because we all need to know now, the book it: Crafting for Sinners by Jenny Kiefer. Out in October - which is nowhere near soon enough!!

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Publication day is here 💃💃💃 Grab a copy of Wee, Snot and Slime Through Time today! You can pretend it’s the kids if you want. 🦠🧪🤢 shorturl.at/d25VS

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My 10-tomorrow-year-old made a lot of this cake himself - it might be one of my favourite things we’ve made together. The lumpy ganache ooziness is all intentional, he stuck chocolate truffles and cake cut-off to the sides of the cake to make it spookily uneven. It’s gonna haunt my fridge tonight

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I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

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9yo’s learning about WW1 in his online history course today, and all I can think about is the time my Dad mentioned “back when Franz Ferdinand was assassinated” and my glitchy brain went “what, all of them?” 🙈

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A little more about THE WOLF AND HIS KING, my Bisclavret retelling coming this November from Gollancz. Please enjoy the manicules, I am very pleased with them. Pre-order links here: finnlongman.com/books/the-wo...

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Excited to finally have a Publishers Marketplace screenshot of my very own, more than four years after I sold my first book! Not saying this is the highlight of selling US rights, but... y'know... it's more than a little bit fun. Thanks @erewhonbooks.bsky.social :)

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My 9yo’s doing a history project on Alan Turing which basically means I’m doing a history project on Alan Turing and I’m suddenly so invested in poor little Christopher Morcom I’m, like, one Google search away from Alan & Chris fanfic. Are there any books about (or inspired by) them? Anyone know?

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In case you want some sweet news today. I’m volunteering at the book fair at my kid’s school, and discovered Dav Pilkey paid for the whole thing. For the entire school. Every kid pre-k through fifth grade (the whole school) goes home with two free books.

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please don’t text me war plans, because I’m actually at capacity right now and I don’t think I can hold appropriate space for you. do you have someone else you could reach out to?

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Catching up on the news before having my coffee is wild in this environment because I 100% thought they’d accidentally added Jeff Goldblum to the group chat. Didn’t even question it - the world is too stupid now, anything is possible

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I have a brand new Loki out TOMORROW. But in the meantime, please feast your eyes on the cover of LOKI: A Bad God's Guide to Causing Chaos, coming early SEPT... #BeLEssLoki #KidLitUK @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social Preorder NOW www.walker.co.uk/978152951581... or www.pagesofhackney.co.uk/webshop/prod...

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Post your favourite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only. (seriously, name a more Doctor-coded author, I’ll wait…)

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Happy Birthday to this absolute menace of a Dad/Grandude/Mentor - I miss you every single day. Today I’m celebrating in the most Larry way possible, though, start a 4-week residency at Bridgetown Secondary School teaching performance poetry to 1st Years!! You’d have loved The WRaPParound, Dad

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Giving my kids an important cultural lesson this mid-term, and I’ve just realised - after a lifelong obsession - that Ted “Theodore” Logan is so adorably clueless he even gets his own name backwards (the nickname goes in quotation marks 🙈) I love him, kids are mind-blown that John Wick is so sweet

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9yo’s doing a history course online (through DCU’s CTYI program) - I’m in awe of his teacher, keeping 15 history-obsessed 9 to 12yos on track when ALL they want to do is to wow the class with their own trivia. They’re so smart & excited, she’s amazing at encouraging them without detailing the class!

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Just got this from Mom, “Dad’s” care package arrived safe & sound! I was actually on the phone to her when the delivery guy came (I wanted to make sure she didn’t think it was a mistake & send it away) but she wanted me to see how it all looked together. I think Dad would approve?

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When you’re knackered & full of head-cold but you promised your 11 year old a Mommy-daughter #GaltentinesDay going to watch SIX at Garter Lane theatre with her friends. The make-up is doing its best, but the eyebags are winning 😭

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My Dad loved making a fuss of Mom on Valentine’s Day, even when he was really sick he’d “trick” her into going for coffee in Tesco then off for flowers & choccies. I felt him nagging me earlier, so now mom has a surprise Tesco delivery of wine, choccies & flowers coming tomorrow. Hope Dad approves 😂

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This book. This author! 💛 Set in the 1980s, it's a moving story about resilience, identity and breaking free of expectations that hold you back. Huge congratulations @lesleyparr.bsky.social, you clever ducky!

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Hello, new and old followers! 😀 Who am I? A writer currently publishing fiction and non-fiction for MG (children aged 9-14). New to writing for TV, but hope to do more. Interests: psychology, wellbeing, film. An advocate of 'beginners mind'. I'll be 50 this year and am excited for this next phase!

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I’ve started 2025 in a flurry of writing. Having ditched my old book 5 last year, I’ve started a new one. New story, new characters, the lot. And the good news is I am on track!! It’s going SO MUCH better. The lesson? I’ve that rest can do wonders for your creativity. Who knew?! 😆 #kidlituk

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MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM ME AND THE CHRISTMAS CARROLLS!!!!!! ❤️🎄🎅🏼 I hope everyone has a gorgeous festive season and a 2025 that is full of cheer. (P.s. if anyone gets a copy of The Christmas Carrolls 1 2 or 3 for Xmas do feel free to send me pics! I love seeing them!!! ✨)

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Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to everyone celebrating either today. My gift to you is this extremely niche tiktok of a Limerick panto skit.

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I’ve been away looking after my sick Mom for a couple of weeks & made it my mission to get the birds back in her garden by hanging seed balls every morning. Today they tweeted & flocked nearby as I soon as I stepped into the garden! THE BIRDS WERE TALKING ABOUT ME! Snow White status activated?

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BOOK NEWS! 🔥 @hotkeybooks will publish my YA verse novel NOT GOING TO PLAN (gender identity, consent and shame) and @piccadilly.press, has historical MGprose novel, OPERATION DOODLEBUG. See? I wasn't doing nothing! 😂 @hotkeybooks @piccadilly.press @bonnierbooks_uk @ukyabooks @ukyaspotlight @uksla

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If you haven’t read this books - or if you’re looking for a pressie for a magical adventure loving kiddo - do grab Vivi Conway! My 9yo is obsessed with Book 1 (Book 2 may be wrapped in the North Pole for him) and says “yes, like in Vivi Conway when…” in response to SO MANY things now 😂

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Welcome to my diverse authored advent calendar. 15/24 The Vivi Conway series by Lizzie Huxley Jones @littlehux.bsky.social - a fantastic adventure story infused with Welsh mythology, quests, fae and a grumpy ghost dog. #kidlituk

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He's hiring a ship He's packing his cloak He's moving to England To follow some bloke Dracula is coming to town

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