Does anyone know what kinds of mushrooms these are? Are they poisonous?

Read The Eighteenth Emergency by Betsy Byars, after Andy Stanton recommended it in one of his videos. It’s a short children’s story that’s also suitable for tall children and adults of any height. A modern classic with a familiar theme and an unusual resolution and moral. Loved it!

Listened to this novella on my walk today. It was captivating in its own strange way, but I’m glad it was short. Didn’t want to be in the company of the protagonist for any longer than I was.

I've never done this on social media before but... ...my brilliant assistant is moving on to pastures new after three years. I am looking for someone to help me out. They need to be able to *get to North London easily, regularly*, energetic (it's often a dashing-around/carrying stuff job)...

It's Monday again and today I'm still reading Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree, had a graphic novel week last week instead What book(s) are you reading this week? 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR alt text in images please

This timeless middle grade story by Michael Morpurgo about friendship, bravery, love and hope is delightful, and beautifully illustrated by Benji Davies. It would make a most excellent bedtime story read over a few nights.

I enjoyed the unusual and thoughtful illustrated novel by Isobel Harrop. Perfect for teens navigating life, emotions and relationships.

Physics for Cats by @tomgauld.bsky.social is hilarious and very clever. It would make an excellent Christmas present 🎁

When humans look at something we find beautiful our brains release dopamine, lifting mood & if we connect with what we're looking at oxytocin, giving us a sense of belonging. A tiny posy I made in a thimble, with real flowers I grew👇 If you like it it'll alter your brain biochemistry for the better:

Everything Will Swallow You by Tom Cox. A strange experience. But strange in a good way.

It's Monday again and today I'm reading Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree What book(s) are you reading this week? 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR alt text in images please

Barker called me up one night and without preamble said "It's opinions, not onions. Not onions. This is Clive Barker. I've been trying to track down and stop this error in editions for decades. OPINIONS."

Here's the way many of us first read the ending of "In the Hills, the Cities". (This is from the paperback that I whined & cajoled my skeptical mother into letting me buy at the grocery store when I was a kid.)

I love maps so I'm giving away TWO signed paperbacks of my psychedelic/folkloric novel Villager each with these fantastic maps my dad illustrated of the fictional village in the book.Just repost this/reply below for a chance to win. Here's an extract from the book: www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...

Reading Human Rites by @junodawson.bsky.social at the moment and god I love this series. Contemporary fantasy done right, weaving the mundane and the supernatural together perfectly. I'd love recs for contemp fantasy that does this well (a la rivers of london too).

It's Monday again and today I'm reading Hagtale by Sally O'Reilly What book(s) are you reading this week? 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR alt text in images please

Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.

It's Monday again and today I'm reading The Employees by Olga Ravn translated by Martin Aitken What book(s) are you reading this week? 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR alt text in images please

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1579: If you’re going to write in any genre (children’s fiction, SFF, romance, etc), you need to read EXTENSIVELY in that genre. You need to read current authors in the genre. You need to know what’s been done; what tropes exist; how the genre has changed.

It's Monday again and today I'm reading The Hill in the Dark Grove by Liam Higginson What book(s) are you reading this week? 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR alt text in images please

Saw this and thought of you @acaseforbooks.bsky.social. www.fortnumandmason.com/rory-dobner-...

It's Monday again and today I'm about to start Revenge by Yoko Ogawa What book(s) are you reading this week? 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR alt text in images please

I’ve just come off a three hour Teams meeting. Did I miss the Rapture?

It's Monday again and today I'm about to start The Fungus by Harry Adam Knight What book(s) are you reading this week? 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR alt text in images please

Today is the last day to enter our 2025 Fiction Competitions! ⏰ Ready to enter? We're rooting for you! 👏 mslexia.co.uk/competitions... P.S. If you've already entered, give yourself a well-deserved pat on the back! #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

You’ve already bitten off the head. Grate a pear.

I was asked by a friend to recommend some books for her ten year old boy. Impossible to pick just four tbh! But here’s what I plucked from my bookshelf. What would you have chosen? #kidlituk #ukkidlit #booksky

It's Monday again and today I'm about to start A Steeping of Blood by Hafsah Faizal What book(s) are you reading this week? 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR alt text in images please

There was only one copy of #THIRST left at @waterstones.bsky.social #Leicester when I got there. It's signed now, so get before it's gone. Go go go! @pushkinchildrens.bsky.social

About to become the millionth person to post about the Bourdon Street Chippy.

Just a reminder to check your insta and facebook settings - you can "object" to them using your info to train, and everything else, AI. It's in privacy settings. And, if you have more than one account, make sure you have them all checked.

Government reshuffle talks of growth, growth, growth. But growth for who? Children in poverty? Pensioners in cold homes? Schools starved of funds? Nature under attack? We should have growth for need not greed. #FairFuture #GreenPolitics

It's Monday again and today I'm reading Night of the Living Toilet Paper by Kevin Garone What book(s) are you reading this week? 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR alt text in images please

Entries to Undiscovered Voices 2026 close at midnight tomorrow. If you are still polishing your submission - you can do it! 💪 We can't wait to read your stories. Don't miss your chance 👇 www.undiscoveredvoices.com @scbwi.bsky.social @scbwiireland.bsky.social #UV26

The proper term for them is "Meanderthals"

I read Spirit Level last year. It’s hilarious and very entertaining.

I do wonder what my 19-year-old self - the one who decided that being a writer would be the most amazing and brilliant thing to be and nothing difficult would ever come of it - would think if I went back to early 1995 and explained stuff like this to him.

Randomly remembered this gem from Reddit

Free online attendance at The Fantasy Summer School 2025, organised by the University of Oxford, and Bloomsbury Publishing, that brings together the expertise of scholars, publishers working with fantasy authors. Link here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oxford-blo... Please share :)

It's Monday again and today I'm reading Roots of My Fear edited by Gemma Amor What book(s) are you reading this week? 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR alt text in images please

Newspaper property sections are always like "Sebastian, Pancetta and their son Eugenics moved from the city to the country to live their dream" and then there's a picture of them outside their new mansion with their new cow and you can tell the cow is going "I fucking hate my life."

A little maple tree in the swamp heard the cricket song and turned bright red with anxiety. E.B. White Charlotte’s Web

I have a book out in two weeks. So....one repost of this and I'll drop one fact/spoiler/detail about the book. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social www.walker.co.uk/978152951581...

I do like it when the next @newscientist.com book club novel is one I already own. It makes me feel a little bit intellectual.

National treasure indeed, and an international treasure as well. I now live in the UK, we think she's the cat's whiskers.

It's Monday again and today I'm reading Sympathy Tower Tokyo by Rie Qudan, translated by Jesse Kirkwood What book(s) are you reading this week? 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR alt text in images please

All I have left of the 1000s of books I bought from my ex-publisher's warehouse are about 200 copies of Ring The Hill. I'd *love* to get them to good homes this week. If you're in the UK & you'd like one, for the price of your choice (any price!), pls email me your address at [email protected].

Any shares of this for algorithmical purposes much-appreciated. I'd love to get these books out of my spare room & into the world before my new novel comes out. I'll sign them all & I really am happy to let people choose what they pay. (Postage to UK is £4.)

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