Today is an auspicious day. It marks the beginning of my campaign to get George Saunders to present me with the Booker Prize he won for Lincoln in the Bardo. I will be taking no further questions at this point.

Thrilled to get further recognition for The Fire In Their Eyes, and this time for “Visionary Fiction” - thanks to The Independent Press Awards for a “Distinguished Favourite” badge! Maybe all that daydreaming hasn’t been a waste? @breakthroughbook.bsky.social #booksky

So we’re just announcing foreign strikes and kidnappings of foreign leaders on social media now? No Congress. No explanation. This is madness.

Also we could have just believed 1000 women instead of going to war with Venezuela. That was an option.

Following a white man to war because you disliked the sound of a black woman laughing will go down in American history as one of the dumbest acts of self-sabotage ever.

My latest for @thebookseller.com Thanks to everyone who helped with this one! www.thebookseller.com/news/authors...

Starting to think, or even panic about, the Christmas shopping? Don’t forget books make wonderful presents! And for a thought-provoking, award-winning, fictional thrill-ride for the bookworms in your life, look no further… #booksky #giftsforbookworms @breakthroughbook.bsky.social

Reupping this as BBC journalists now can’t even quote the censored statement of fact. This is appalling. Facts matter! Evidence matters! This isn’t even an opinion!

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

'They were those like Sir Oswald Mosley who were fascinated by the spectacle of brutal power. They would like to use it themselves. They grovelled to Nazi dictatorship in order that they could make people in their turn grovel to them' Winston Churchill, 1936

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

Read in public. Read in private. Read e-books, genre books, comics, fanfiction. Read literature. Read nonfiction. Read books you’ve already read. Listen to audiobooks. Read what you want. There’s no such thing as “doing reading the wrong way.”

X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain. Nobody with any sense or decency should be there. No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there. Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Happy #AdaLovelaceday ! And here’s to all the brilliant women who broke the mould and made it important and vital (if often overlooked ) contributions to the worlds of STEM ! If not from a scientist then from a punter who is in awe and has women scientist driving her novels… #booksky

Just bought a couple of cracking reads for #BookshopDay from Alex at @fourbearsbooks.bsky.social in Caversham, Berkshire. @booksaremybag.bsky.social #BookSky #WritingCommunity

Happy #bookshopday! Some of my happiest moments have been during launches or events in bookshops. And there’s still such a thrill from seeing your books rubbing shoulders with other wonderful authors on the shelves… or even better, in a window, table or till display! #booksky

My local bookshop did a magnificent thing on Christmas Day in 2023 and they're doing it again this year. @fourbearsbooks.bsky.social are such an important part of our community, as are all indie shops to theirs, which is why we have #BookshopDay today to support them. Support yours! #BookSky

Ride over to Henley with me on your 1970s Raleigh Chopper and hear all about memoir writing, Alan Davies’s White Male Stand-Up and Mick Herron on what plot is just an excuse for. #BookSky #WritingCommunity open.substack.com/pub/caversha...

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

#London, it's #ESEA Heritage Month. Join us for a reading from my memoir "Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant" @guanghwabookshop on Thursday (tomorrow) at 6:00 with my friend @hsienc

To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.

this exists it is called thinking

We need to be very clear about this. Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all. humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...

Something to look out for, @louisaguiseauthor.bsky.social

No heating, no hot water… but I’m writing on gas 🔥 Read my new short story, plus reflections on Orwell, Didion, and the meaning (or meaninglessness) of words. Also: the four-letter word we need to reclaim… open.substack.com/pub/caversha... #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #BookSky

Well, I’m a bit speechless! But also absolutely thrilled, grateful and honoured, to have won an #NYCBigBookAward for The Fire In Their Eyes! Makes me wonder if I might actually be doing something right and all love, sweat, tears and years are properly worthwhile? #bookaward #awardwinningfiction

What's the worst writing advice you ever heard? #BookSky #WritingCommunity open.substack.com/pub/caversha...

There seems to be a degree of apathy on the subject of book piracy. Is this because it just isn't that much of a problem, or is it too difficult to fix? #BookSky #WritingCommunity #Authors #Writers

Yes, we know we may not be flashy, but we will keep on keeping on because we believe in what we’re doing and that authors deserve to be at the centre of the industry not at the bottom of the pile…

Breakthrough Books is the only publisher to arise from the Unbound ashes that’s author-centred and author-led. A “happy ending” growing organically not flashily. Maybe a good news story of trailblazing authors just isn’t headline worthy? @observeruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/busines...

Why playing whack-a-mole with pirates isn't as much fun as it sounds. An author friend found copies of her book pirated online. Every author I'd ever interviewed were pirated on the same site. So I asked them what they thought and here’s what they said. #BookSky open.substack.com/pub/caversha...

What books have you re-read the most? And how has the experience of reading it changed each time, for better or worse? #BookSky open.substack.com/pub/caversha...

This is exactly what I write about and embody in the female characters of my novels! #matriarchy #booksky www.newscientist.com/article/2488...

Blast from my own ancient past - just in case you thought I was hallucinating my 15 seconds in Noble House with a future Bond and a future Gimli @aidyraff.bsky.social !

Authors! Have you ever discovered a pirated copy of your book on a shifty website? What happened? How did you react/respond? Were you able to get your book removed and if so, how? #BookSky #WritingCommunity #Authors #Writers

Nothing can possibly go wrong. It'll be a Doctor Who monster or the plot of @brethertonwords.bsky.social's The Fire in Their Eyes unfolding. There is no third option. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I interviewed the wonderful @brethertonwords.bsky.social for Caversham Writers about her new novel The Fire In Their Eyes. It's a superb story linking characters from 74k years ago to today amid an emerging biological threat. #BookSky #WritingCommunity #authors open.substack.com/pub/caversha...

An amazing opportunity for 10 writers to spend up to a month for free at seaside cottage to write. All details in the link below. Please share :)

Caversham Writers' Summer Reading open.substack.com/pub/caversha... Summer Reads from the Caversham Writers!

Never forget that #SesameStreet once did a sketch based on Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, which involved a Swedish fisherman counting seals until he found the seventh one.

Need some inspiration for your reading list? My writing group members share their all time favourites and recent reads. Also, what book(s) have you re-read the most? Catch-22 for me. #BookSky #writingcommunity #books #amreading #amwriting cavershamwriters.substack.com/p/caversham-...

Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣

Who Are We? An existential writing prompt by @louisaguiseauthor.bsky.social for Caversham Writers. This week's newsletter is out: open.substack.com/pub/caversha... #BookSky #WritingCommunity

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you? Oh no. I'm going to die. He's going to die. And the whole city is going to be vaporised.

Can I breathe now?

Happy #PublicationDay to @brethertonwords.bsky.social and The Fire In Their Eyes, book two in the Children Of Sarah series and the gripping sequel to the bestselling Bone Lines. Available to order from wherever books are sold, including our own webshop. #Books #BooksWorthReading #Matriarchy

It’s paperback publication day for EAT SLAY LOVE, the story of three women who have nothing in common except for the man they are holding hostage in a basement, and which is really a story of female empowerment and solidarity. Happy day! bertsbooks.co.uk/product/eat-...

Essential reading.

Thanks @imperialcollege for kicking off our UK Tour. So many friends from @michiganalumni @thewritinghabit @bcsbritishchinesesociety - thanks also to @fourbearsbooks and Adrian from the Caversham Writers group for beautiful Sunday reading!