I'm excited to share that the book I'm co-authoring with my daughter, 'Sea Legs' (coming 2027), has been shortlisted for the #sustainablestoryaward from World of Books. The Award highlights authors whose work speaks to urgent themes of social justice and sustainable futures.

Today former Thornton's Books colleague @eleanorthom.bsky.social was passing through Richmond in #Yorkshire and couldn't resist popping by a couple of Alice Thornton's old haunts and taking some photos. #EarlyModern 🗃️ 1/3

In a wonderful collaboration with the National Museum of Flight, writer @eleanorthom.bsky.social led a series of writing workshops at the East Fortune museum for local pupils. Details about the project and examples of their work is here: tyneandeskwriters.org.uk/local-school... Supported by Tesco

Congratulations to all of the Thornton's Books team. I loved being part of this wonderful and fascinating project and discovering the 17th-century life wrintings of Alice Thornton. #writers #authors I highly recommend delving into this fantastic free resource.

Watching last night's Up Helly Aa with my dad. He has held onto the memory of this from when he was a boy, and his dad George being one of the Vikings carrying the galley. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTVi...

We're nearing the end of our top 12 most viewed blogs countdown. At number 2, it's @eleanorthom.bsky.social's stocking filler of interesting passages picked from our partial release of Thornton's 'Book of Remembrances'. Read more below. #EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚 📜 thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...

Today was my last day working with P6/P7 classes at the National Museum of Flight for Tyne and Esk Writers. Thank you to the Scottish Book Trust for supporting these sessions through the Live Literature Programme.

My son and my mum at the same age. Aren’t genes just amazing!

Lovely to work with two more classes of young learners on creative writing inspired by WW2 items - today at the National Museum of Flight.

Birds of Paradise. Dec 3. Writer, Karis Williamson: "The film... examines how society’s ableism can disable all people to varying extents and raises questions around this. I had Classical references... attitudes towards disability haven’t changed that much in all that time." tinyurl.com/ye2zbub4

Delighted to say I'm now represented by the wonderful Sabhbh Curran at Curtis Brown. With my daughter, Oona, I'm currently working on a memoir about #caring for each other, #paraswimming and disabled sea mammals. 💙

Fully funded Live Literature sessions for schools based in a bunch of Scottish LAs open now - FAO teachers, or writers who'd like to share the opportunity with schools they know! Author visits are magic. www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing-and-...

Every week—usually Thursdays—you'll find a curated set of "Jewish Literary Links" over on My Machberet. Herewith, the latest, kicking off with a reminder that #JewishBookMonth (organized by @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social), is starting SOON! www.erikadreifus.com/2024/11/jewi...

Our latest post by @eleanorthom.bsky.social was inspired by a question posed by @rebeccarideal.bsky.social about #EarlyModern weather resources. It also demonstrates, with a video, how to use the new text search function on our #DigitalEdition. 🗃️ thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...

If you're going to post a picture about a book, *say something* about it. I hate these "post a book, say nothing" challenges. "This is a book" is not discourse.

Hello new followers 👋 I am a writer based in Edinburgh. Interested in caring, paraswimming, marine ecology, disabled sea mammals and improving outdoor access for my daughter, Oona. More on our exciting co-authored project coming soon! #writingcommunity #lifewriting #bluehumanities

Seal pups today on Inchkeith Island (at a distance with a very long lens). My daughter thought the pups’ calls carrying over the water sounded like owls. My son said a zombie apocalypse.

This will be a great event with @alisonirvine.bsky.social in Cumbernauld next weekend. I'll be taking my brutalist-architecture-mad teenage son with me. See you there?

My daughter Oona is ten. She swims laps while I sit by the pool on a folded towel and write. When I was ten, I hated swimming lessons, but now I love the smell of chlorine. I sniff out local leisure centres when I need to focus on my writing. #Writers, where are the weirdest places you go to work?

November 1942. The British decided that my grandmother was no longer an 'enemy alien'. In June 2021, my research on my grandmother's life was presented in the Bundestag, helping amend Germany's citizenship law. The historical chapters in my novel 'Connective Tissue' tell the story of her family.

Really enjoyed talking with people from various creative writing groups tonight about @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social and Alice's deliverances from death. We get to see the illustrations of the writers' own deliverances next week. 📚 #17thCentury With thanks to @eleanorthom.bsky.social for organising.

Looking forward to reading from Connective Tissue alongside fellow #authors @chitgrrl.bsky.social and Jean Barr at Portobello Book Festival this weekend.

As well as being an #author, I am lucky enough to also have a job supporting #authors. Did you know the oldest writer I support was born in 1626? Yes really! Find out all about Alice Thornton and her work at @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social 📚🗃️

If you are in Irvine on Saturday, please come! This will be a great conversation and I love to meet people afterwards if you want to hang about to chat about family history /writing /being an air traffic controller (ok, I can't speak from experience there). tidelinesbookfestival.com/book-tickets...

Hello. First ever post. If there are other #author or 📚 or #writingcommunity people on here, please follow... or do whatever it is that you do here, and I will do the same. My novel Connective Tissue is out now should you be looking for a #Jewish family saga kind of thing. In all good bookshops!