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Fleur Hitchcock
@fleurhitchcock.bsky.social
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Author of crime for kids.
#MurderatChristmas out October 25 with @nosycrow.bsky.social
West Country UK
Expert Children's Bookseller - she/her.
#kidlituk
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fleurhitchcock.bsky.social
I'm hoping a few will be buying my very own #MurderatChristmas Tis the season!
#kidbookfriday
#kidlituk
Cover for Murder at Christmas showing two children on bicycles outside a hotel in the snow.
November 28, 2025 at 8:57 AM
fleurhitchcock.bsky.social
Can I suggest Invisible Dogs by Ruby Wright for your 3 year old? A delight! Or the Terribly Friendly Fox, by Susannah Lloyd #ukkidlit #kidbookfriday
Picture of cover of invisible dogs, by Ruby Wright showing girl in a onesie in front of a coat rack hanging with animal themed backpacks
November 28, 2025 at 8:49 AM
fleurhitchcock.bsky.social
you’ve been kidnapped. the characters from the last tb show you watched are trying to rescue you. who’s coming to save you?

Just not sure how I rate my chances.
Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson in Down Cemetery Road.
November 26, 2025 at 8:20 AM
fleurhitchcock.bsky.social
Off to Swindon for two days of school visits. Fully caffeinated. Fully prepared.
GWR cup by train window
November 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
fleurhitchcock.bsky.social
Massively chuffed to find #MurderatChristmas in the @mrbsemporium.bsky.social Christmas Catalogue - popped in this morning and found a humungous pile in need of signing.
A slightly stunned me, sitting behind a stack of copies of Murder at Christmas in Mr Bs
October 31, 2025 at 4:54 PM
fleurhitchcock.bsky.social
#kidlituk #ukkidlit
Come and join us in Bradford on Avon library tomorrow. Totally free workshops, lots of room in all of them, I think. Ring the library for details on 01225 863280
Easy Walk from the station. Lovely town. Why wouldn't you? @erandalljones.bsky.social @clareharlow.bsky.social
a list of events taking place at Bradford on Avon library. Workshops for children. Hana Tooke, 9.30 - 10.15 drawing a design for your own mansion. Clare Harlow 10.30 - 11.15 create a tide-magical event of your own. Anika Hussain (cancelled) Emily Randall-Jones - A creepy workshop. Fleur Hitchcock - how to scare yourself and your readers. Stewart Foster, Cancelled.
October 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Thank you @nosycrow.bsky.social for gorgeous publication day, London flowers. They really are divine!!!
#MurderatChristmas
#ukkidlit
A bouquet of flowers with a copy of Murder at Christmas, corresponding bookmarks and two crackers Close up of bouquet
October 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
fleurhitchcock.bsky.social
Clicked on this, and got this advert in the corner. Nice!
A screen shot of Kemi Badenoch drinking water, the by-line is "Twenty Conservative Councillors have defected to Reform" below which is an advert for Dulcolax, a laxative.
October 7, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Seen from my office window, a white van, bedecked with George cross flags, spewing rubbish from the windows.
Venn diagram of two intersecting circles. Above - Flag painters who 'love' their country. Below - People who throw rubbish out of car windows.
September 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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You're right, there's a great deal of sauce in that book. Both anchovy sauce, and OK made appearance at my parents' table - in fact here's a bottle from my late mother's house. But also, isn't BR the most depressing book you ever read?
A bottle of George Watkins anchovy sauce. The sauce itself is mud coloured and textured.
September 4, 2025 at 11:07 AM
fleurhitchcock.bsky.social
Just finished this! Superb stuff! Dark, compelling and human.
Black Lands by Belinda Bauer. Pink cover with a spade on it.
September 2, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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"Tall men should be banned," says youngest as yet another tall man moves in front of us.
But he didn't spoil our enjoyment, nor did the rain - it was a fab @endoftheroadfestival.com
Garden stage at End of the Road Festival. Twilight. View of stage blocked by bald headed man.
September 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
fleurhitchcock.bsky.social
I am so old, but mine were Nina Bawden, Bob Kane (first Batman comics), Hergé, Richard Scarry, Goscinny and Uderzo, Leon Garfield and Joan Aiken. #kidsbookfriday #kidlituk
Asterix in Britain Night birds on Nantucket by Joan Aiken Batman comic from 1960s Richard Scarry 's Storybook Dictionary
August 1, 2025 at 8:03 AM
fleurhitchcock.bsky.social
Morning all.
Alt text won't work, so just a seascape from a hotel window with a tanker on the right.
#Falmouth
July 23, 2025 at 6:45 AM
fleurhitchcock.bsky.social
Because it's so hot, I thought this might cool everyone down. Last year, by the sea.
As ALT text isn't working on this video - it's the sea washing over my feet. Pebbles, water.
June 30, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Just raced through this - started it late last night - finished it this morning. Superb - read it yourself.
Buy it for all the 10/11/12 year olds in your life.
@nosycrow.bsky.social
@eyesab2.bsky.social you totally nailed it!
#kidlituk
A copy of Running my Own Race by Abena Eyeson. Published by Nosy Crow
June 18, 2025 at 9:13 AM
fleurhitchcock.bsky.social
Lots, it's been a good week - but especially pleased by outwitting the pigeons and next door's cat and actually growing some excellent lettuce.
A picture of lettuce growing in a metal tank.
June 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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On my way to my last school of the academic year - finishing close and early this year.
Cirencester, let's be having you...
A cappuccino in a waitrose cafe.
May 16, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Four crows hanging out at our Raven outpost in Bath. Fab to meet you @alastairc.com and to catch up with both @alexcotter.bsky.social and @catherinebruton.bsky.social who considering we live in the same valley I never actually see!
@nosycrow.bsky.social
A four person selfie taken outside the Raven Pub in Bath. Evening light.
May 7, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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As I'm on my way to a crime festival @gwylcrimefest.bsky.social I thought I'd read an appropriate book.
Loving it so far!
#MiceandMurder
A picture of Mice and Murder, by Sally Smith. The cover has a mouse and a knife...
April 26, 2025 at 11:59 AM
fleurhitchcock.bsky.social
Come and join us in Aberystwyth.
Sunday 27th - tickets here...
www.ticketsource.co.uk/gwylcrimecym...
See you there...
Poster for Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2025 Sunday 27th April, Library in Aberystwyth Crime for kids, never too young to love a mystery. Sarah Todd Taylor, Fleur Hitchcock, Rhian Tracey. Tickets through the website www.gwylcrimecymrufestival.co.uk
April 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
fleurhitchcock.bsky.social
I give you rind Braque. A few years ago now but...
A collection of cheese rind, assembled on a board. Somewhat in the manner of the early cubists.
April 15, 2025 at 8:16 AM
fleurhitchcock.bsky.social
Morning all. The world may be climbing into a handcart to economic hell, but the sky is still blue here, and I heard a song thrush.
Blue sky above trees bursting into bud
April 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Meta, you total criminals - you've stolen 16 of my books to train your wretched intrusive AI
Grow up, #DotheWritething
Meta Book Thieves they must do the right thing, poster from Society of Authors.
April 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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This beauty by @krahim.bsky.social
Excellent exploration of what it feels like to be donor conceived for 10 year olds.
Out next month!
The Doughnut Club, proof copy. Pink doughnut on blue background.
March 31, 2025 at 7:41 AM