Delighted to see Smelly Peggy by #HelenStephens and Handle With Care by @louisareid.bsky.social shortlisted for the Sheffield Children's Book Award 2025!

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Delighted to welcome @louisareid.bsky.social as an Author Supporter for the End Sexism In Schools charity. Louisa stands with ESIS in calling for 50% of whole, taught class novels and reading lists in schools to be authored by women, with 50% the lead protagonist being women and girls.

Sobbing at the last episode of Miss Austen. Patsy Ferran is a gem.

Leaf Journal is a scholarly journal that publishes insights and observations on the act of creative writing for young people. We are currently welcoming submissions of articles for Volume 3. Find out more: leafjournal.org/for-authors #academicsky #kidlit #ukkidlit

New year, new me! That's what Saffron Saldana tells herself as the clock strikes midnight. Her resolution is the same every year: lose weight. But diet culture has ugly consequences, as Saffron is about to find out...

Can Saffron find a way back to herself and learn to love who she already is?

This is brilliantly fascinating. The afterlives of Paradise Lost and the power of poetry. Orlando Reade is a genius.

Out now #BfK no. 269, our seasonal special interviews, features, comment & NEW #childrensbook reviews. Authorgraph interview Piers Torday, Windows into Illustration Kate Winter, new Beyond the Secret Garden PLUS Books of the Year AND our Xmas gift recommendations. tinyurl.com/2szpsys9

Today at YALC with my amazing agent, Jessica Hare. What a wonderful event, meeting readers and being all things books.

Here for all things books.