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Anne Booth (@Bridgeanne)
@bridgeanne.bsky.social
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Writer of books for children, represented by Anne Clark https://www.anneclarkliteraryagency.co.uk & for adults, represented by Charlotte Colwill https://www.colwillandpeddle.com. Occasional columnist for 'The Tablet.' website https://anneboothauthor.com
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I am reading this and it is absolutely brilliant! It’s based in Malta and now I really want to go there. Thank you for writing such an amazing story @rowancoleman.bsky.social
July 12, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Publication day for @dc-litchfield.bsky.social and me! It’s our third picture book together and this one is about friendship & fun & being kind & letting people be who they are meant to be! I love the illustrations and am v proud of the story! It was great fun to write @anneclarklit.bsky.social
A photo of a little black cockapoo sitting in an armchair looking at the cover of a new picture book called ‘Come Back Gosling’ with a picture of a girl sitting in a treehouse and a gosling up in the air above the tree flying away - you can just see its bottom as the photo has cropped the edge of the book .
June 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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I am just back from such a wonderful evening listening to a talk by the artist Anita Klein and looking at beautiful paintings and prints and ceramics for sale with Eames Fine Art. It was so inspiring and I loved all the art! I highly recommend this exhibition of work.
Photo of a printed out email and an invitation to a preview and talk at the Eames studio in London, showing new prints, paintings and ceramics by Anita Klein. A painting of a woman in swim suit and goggles diving under the water, her bare feet sticking out of the surface whilst a duck and ducklings swim past.
June 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Our village Anglican Church has set up three Lenten study groups using this book and I go to the one on Thursday. I and am finding it very helpful and challenging and inspiring .
March 27, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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This is such a gentle & wise book, just published. You probably won’t have seen it advertised & you won’t see it pushed with a big marketing budget, but I really want people to know about it, because it’s just so timely & true, with very helpful questions to ask yourself at the end of each chapter.
March 11, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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9 am 7 March on Milkshake my and @dc-litchfield.bsky.social ‘s book for Templar books, ‘ The Boy, The Troll and The Chalk’ will be read out ! @anneclarklit.bsky.social ! www.channel5.com/milkshake-pa...
March 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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I’ve started reading this, & I think it is wonderful & wise & v needed today. It can be used as daily reflections during Lent, & has questions to ponder at the end of each short chapter, & can be used individually or in groups, but obviously it can be read in any way you want. I recommend this.
Copy of front cover of the book ‘Doorways to Hope - Forty Days of Spiritual Wisdom’ by Christopher Chapman.A photograph of a rocky shore and across an escort expanse of water a rocky arch in the sea, the arch lit by light. Cover design penguinboy.net Picture of back cover of ‘Doorways to Hope’ Quote from Gemma Simmonds , CJ ‘ packed with riches from theological and spiritual traditions and written by a seasoned spiritual director whose pastoral experience shows in every page’ . Then the blurb continues: When life feels overwhelming and hope seems out of reach, Doorways to Hope offers a way forward. In forty daily reflections, Christopher Chapman redefines hope- not as wishful thinking, but as a transformative force rooted in God’s creative and redeeming presence. This is a hope that meets us in our struggles, renewing what is broken and restoring what feels lost. It is relational and dynamic, drawing us into a shared journey of healing and renewal. God’s compassion and purpose open the door to new possibilities, inviting us to step through. Doorways to Hope is a liberating guide for anyone feeling powerless or stuck, offering practical ways to embrace hope and join in the work of healing and change. Christopher Chapman is an experienced spiritual director and retreat leader. He is guest director at St Beuno’s Jesuit Spirituality Centre and an associate tutor at St Augustine’s College of Theology. He is the author of Seeing in the Dark, Earthed in God and Send my Roots Rain. Also available as an ebook. Canterbury Press. The back cover is mustard yellow with the scene from the front cover repeated as a small photograph embedded in the text of the blurb. The isbn is 978 1 78622 609 9
February 17, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Yesterday I went to the Leicester Square Theatre, renamed The Leicester BEAR Theatre, to a wonderful show celebrating the 10th anniversary of @dc-litchfield.bsky.social brilliant book ‘The Bear and the Piano’. It was so much fun, & his reading, with gorgeous live piano accompaniment, so beautiful.
Picture of poster with the cover of David Litchfield’s picture book The Bear and the Piano. A bear in a dinner suit sits on a tiny stool and plays a piano on a stage with curtains on either side but a backdrop of a forest. David Litchfield dressed as a bear but wearing a peaked cap stands on a stage next to someone in a bear costume onesie who is playing the piano. In the background a scene from the book The Bear and the Piano is projected - we can see a forest and a piano. Two bearded men with sunglasses and in bear onesies sit on stools on side of stage next to a drum set and another man, the drummer, who is not drumming and is also in a bear onesie - they are all looking to what is going on out of sight across the stage and you can see a bit of a projected slide from The Bear and the Piano - it looks like the curtains from the cover. All David Litchfield’s picture books which he has both written and illustrated are projected on to the stage on a purple screen and there are electric blue stage curtains behind.You can see a drum set lit up in red light and a guitar and a bit of an electric piano and a speaker .There is a sign saying please do not place any items on the stage and you can see the back of a seated little boy looking up at the stage.
February 14, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Just finished this and really enjoyed it. I loved the characters ( including a small rescued sloth) and the story was gripping! @nosycrow.bsky.social
February 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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I am on my way to London to celebrate @dc-litchfield.bsky.social ‘s wonderful book ‘The Bear and the Piano’, and having a cup of tea in a lovely café near the train station to avoid freezing on the platform. Tea is a great invention!
A picture of a cup of tea
February 13, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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This has just arrived! Barney is v interested but I am going to take it from him and read this new book by @celiajanderson.bsky.social , as she is a wonderful storyteller!
January 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Just met up with lovely @celiajanderson.bsky.social to celebrate her new book - I can’t wait to read it !
January 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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I am having breakfast in bed - pancakes and lemon and sugar with a hot cup of tea! What a lovely beginning to Sunday!
A picture of a cup of tea and a plate on a tray. The plate has a knife and fork and two pieces of rolled pancake on it. The tray has a cat and the French words Le Chat fleuri on it
January 19, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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I am very excited because I learnt today that my and David Litchfield's book 'The Boy, the Troll and the Chalk' has won the Key stage 1 read aloud book, voted for by teachers for @booksfortopics.bsky.social ! @bonnierbooks.bsky.social @anneclarklit.bsky.social
Picture of twelve children's book covers, under title WINNERS! 2024 Books of the Year. On second row, second in from the left, is the cover of 'The Boy, The Troll and the Chalk' by David Litchfield and Anne Booth. At bottom of picture is www.booksfortopics.com and the logo of a blue book with a red ribbon poking out, and the words in red Books for Topics.
December 31, 2024 at 5:37 PM
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One of our Christmas Eve traditions! Watching The Muppets Christmas Carol. It’s so great!
December 24, 2024 at 9:16 PM
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My daughter has prepared the dough for our Christmas sweetbread. Cooking is definitely one of her languages of love and we are very lucky!
December 24, 2024 at 5:54 PM
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More washed teddies drying out ready to be taken to the Red Cross charity shop, hopefully to be loved and cuddled by a new generation. It’s quite emotional giving them away.
December 4, 2024 at 12:50 PM
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My daughter sorted out toys from her childhood & I washed them & today I brought them to a local charity shop to sell before Christmas. I am really glad we got it done in time as these are lovely toys and hopefully will bring joy. It was emotional, but good to see other toys already in the window.
Two pictures - one of a white teddy, its head peeping out of a bag , and the other of a charity shop window filled with toys.
December 3, 2024 at 9:56 PM
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Today I washed some of my daughter’s teddies & a puppet she had sorted out, & they are drying now -they’re in v good condition, like new, & our plan is to give them to a charity shop before Christmas so someone can buy them as Christmas presents for someone they love, & raise money for charity too.
Various teddies and a parrot puppet drying on a heated rack.
December 1, 2024 at 10:06 PM
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On Saturday I went to such a lovely thing at @gulbenkian.bsky.social -it was a screening & celebration of some of Peter Firmin & Oliver Postgate's SmallFilms, 'Smallfilms on the Big Screen,' with two Postgate sons, who told gentle & humorous stories about their memories of the making of the films.
Picture of five knitted pink Clangers from the Small Films animation, The Clangers, all looking up at the viewer and waving.
December 1, 2024 at 9:18 PM
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This weekend I have done some really lovely things. Friday night I went to a wonderful concert to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Bagpuss! Nancy Kerr and James Fagan & Sandra Kerr (the voice of Madeline) performed the songs & music live. It was just so full of beauty - the music is just gorgeous!
Photograph of Bagpuss, the pink striped, blue eyed, cloth cat of the series.
December 1, 2024 at 9:00 PM
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So far this morning I have been, with my husband, for a lovely dog walk, have written & submitted an article, and been to a village mother and baby group, where I read my latest picture book to everyone, gorgeously illustrated by Leanne Hatch and published by Walker Books. @anneclarklit.bsky.social
Front cover of book 'Angelo and Angelina: the Christmas Angels' by Anne Booth, illustrated by Leanne Hatch, showing two little wooden angel decorations with golden wings and tinsel halos, standing on green leaves with berries, and against a beautiful purple background with snow flakes, stars, swirls and leaves with berries.
November 28, 2024 at 1:04 PM
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Just want to share again about my latest Christmas book! I am so proud to be published by Walker Books - I have loved them for decades! Leanne Hatch has done such beautiful illustrations and I am so happy my little angels are now in a book!
Photograph of two Christmas decorations - wooden angels dressed in white - one bigger than the other, each holding a green holly Christmas wreathe with red Christmas bells. They are on a white ledge above a sofa, standing in front of a frame with three illustrations from the Moon books. These ornaments inspired my Christmas story.
November 22, 2024 at 10:51 PM
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'Sweet Mercies' is my second novel about the nuns of St Philomena in the fictional town of Fairbridge & begins at Christmas, so it is perfect for a Christmas present. It is 'Uplit' with kittens & has a happy ending, but Irish Sister Bridget does have to deal with skeletons in her family's cupboard!
Picture of two books. One, with a yellow cover, is called 'Small Miracles' by Anne Booth. It has pictures of three nuns, and the quotes 'A Gem' AJ Pearce, 'Wonderful' Jill Mansell, and 'Joyful' by Jo Thomas. The other is a book with a dark blue cover, a nun holding a cake, and a kitten. The titles is 'Sweet Mercies' by Anne Booth with the strapline 'Everyone deserves a second choice' and the quote 'Heartwarming' from Katie Fforde.
November 18, 2024 at 3:39 PM
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My lovely neighbour invited me over this morning to join her & other neighbours to paint Christmas pebbles. We had coffee and cake baked by another neighbour. The pebbles will be hidden around our village at Christmas for children to find. My neighbour does this every year. I had such a happy time!
The picture is of five newly painted Christmas pebbles, with the side of a paint palette and a black Pentel pen. One pebble has a snowy night scene with a snowman and two Christmas trees in front of mountains, two pebbles have angels, one pebble a robin and one a Christmas tree.
November 18, 2024 at 3:03 PM