clarefurniss.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Buy this you Nitwits! #EvilPea @simonkids.bsky.social

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

WOW!! #WorldOfWanda is in the #PrimarySchoolBookClub Feb. 2025 vote this evening! Please VOTE, VOTE, VOTE for my backpacking #ADHD heroine, who aches for a home & family that doesn't exist. Or does it? Pootle over to @PrimarySchoolBC on X & vote using the pinned tweet. @uclanpublishing.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

New Substack post on Maybe I'm Amazed... on music, autism, the limits of language - and The Cure's utterly transcendent Happy-sad masterpiece Just Like Heaven open.substack.com/pub/maybeima...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Lovely, insightful review of #WorldOfWanda in Saturday's #Guardian. Thanks, @imogenrw.bsky.social! #backpacking #homesickness #secretfamilies #adhd

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Morning. On Tuesday 17th June, I’m taking part in a Klaus Flugge Salon- an intimate launch event for The Dawn of Adonis. Tickets are limited to 30, and available here. www.tickettailor.com/events/ander...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Exciting news! A free-to-attend summer school in September in Oxford on fantasy with publishers, authors and experts, generously sponsored by Bloomsbury. All the details here: fantasyliteratureschool.web.ox.ac.uk/home

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

Thanks so much @stephenjdilley.bsky.social 😁🐮

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I’m so proud that The Things We Leave Behind is on the Carnegie longlist!! Thank you @carnegiemedals.bsky.social I’m honoured it’s there alongside a spectacular selection of books 🤩

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

IT’S BOOK BIRTHDAY O’CLOCK!! #WorldOfWanda is a story of backpacking, homesickness, #ADHD and secret families, and it’s out today! Me and my PA Bonnie popped into our local Pickled Pepper Bookshop to sign copies and celebrate… 🎉📕 @uclanpublishing.bsky.social @theagencybooks.bsky.social

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

RIP Marianne Faithfull. Four years I ago I sat in on a conversation between her and Courtney Love. She was very ill but indomitable. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

submitted 28 days ago • 5 comments

Once more, but with make up. PEOPLE LIKE STARS, my new middle grade contemporary mystery is out today. Three young people. A stolen baby. A family secret. A grumpy tattooed woman of a certain age who definitely bears absolutely no resemblance to anyone I know. Or am. Cover #michellebrackenborough

submitted 28 days ago • 16 comments

THE DAWN OF ADONIS, cover illustrated by Tom Clohosy Cole, publishing in June…x

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

Beyond the Secret Garden by @darrenchetty.bsky.social & @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social is truly brilliant, vital reading for everyone with anything to do with children's books! Foreword by @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social, cover by @lucyfarfort.bsky.social & published by @engmediacentre.bsky.social

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

Applications for 2025 Illustrator in Residence now open at The RSL for twelve months to explore the relationship between literature and illustration. This is a paid residency of £5,000 from springtime 2025 until springtime 2026. Please share!

submitted 51 days ago • 4 comments

Top Ten Tuesday: Best (non-debut) books of 2024! @bexhogan.bsky.social @silvanhistorian.bsky.social @clarefurniss.bsky.social @rflong.bsky.social @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social sifaelizabethreads.wordpress.com/2024/12/31/b...

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments

Happy new year! In 2024, I read 232 books (lots of them very short). These were my favourite children's and YA books, all of which will be enjoyed by adults as well as younger readers. @catherinebruton.bsky.social @clarefurniss.bsky.social @jprosewriter.bsky.social @sarahcrossan.bsky.social

submitted 58 days ago • 4 comments

News: Maybe I'm Amazed is my new memoir about my autistic son James, how songs became our shared language, and the hidden story of music & neurodivergence. It's out on March 27th. I'm writing a (free) newsletter on all this (and the SEND crisis). Sign up! maybeimamazed.substack.com

submitted 60 days ago • 4 comments

Congratulations Lu! #ukkidlitnews

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

As a proud Little Green Pig Ambassador, I must shout out our #biggivechristmaschallenge. Match funding is still available so for every £1 you donate before noon tomorrow, £2 will go directly towards nurturing the creative potential of our young writers! Thank you 💚 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

In light of the findings in the CLPE Reflecting Realities report, in 2025 I’m going to be starting regular free Ask Me Anything Zoom sessions for UK children’s writers of colour and BookTrust will host the first in March to help reach more writers! 📚

submitted 80 days ago • 3 comments

Another book I loved this year was Bird Boy by Catherine Bruton. When Will and Omar find an injured baby osprey in the wild, they try to keep her alive. Full of hope and written with such heart and sensitivity, it made me cry. Age 10+ #BookElves2024 #LateLateToyShow

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

One of my favourite YA novels of the year is Apocalypse Cow by O. R. Sorrell (Age 15+). #BookElves2024 Holy cow, this book is fun! A riotous LGBTQ+ dystopian horror, full of longing, secrets, and deadly animals, it had me gripped from start to finish.

submitted 83 days ago • 2 comments

Have you seen our starter pack for UK reading charities and not-for-profit organisations? go.bsky.app/KG27ugU #ukkidlit #kidlituk #readingforpleasure

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

One of the purest joys of the writing life is seeing brilliant friends get the acclaim they deserve! Fantastic shortlist and I’m so happy to see Bird Boy on it 👏👏👏

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Lucky enough to see this yesterday with my teens and it was completely joyous. Ncuti Gatwa as dazzling as you’d expect and Sharon D Clarke SPECTACULAR as Lady Bracknell 😍

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

🔊 Our 7th annual #ReflectingRealities report is out now! This year’s report shows a significant drop in the presence of racially minoritised characters in books published for children in 2023 in the UK.

submitted 91 days ago • 3 comments

YA authors, we have a YA starter pack here. We're adding people here 💕 go.bsky.app/RJY3oLN #kidlituk

submitted 96 days ago • 11 comments

Yikes, due to the weather we are unsurprisingly quiet today, a bit nerve wracking for small businesses on a Saturday. So, here’s a look at our current bestsellers and a selection of books we also love. All available here at the shop and online rocketshipbookshop.co.uk/product-cate...

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment