Latest from me: on flags... and "a feeling that many people in positions of power now accept that ridiculous proposition that England is the country Farage et al say it is." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Sometimes unexpected treasure lurks in the family junk pile... awfullybigblogadventure.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...

One of my most anticipated reads of 2025 is now available to request on NetGalley! #ukkidlit #kidlituk

Read On from @bozzybookfest.bsky.social with Wayne Sleep on Just Different, Juano Diaz on Slum Boy, and with @realdomjoly.bsky.social we ask if Finland exits! Plus some book recommendations from @clarefurniss.bsky.social @rnib.bsky.social @rnibradio.bsky.social audioboom.com/posts/8744136

One of my most anticipated reads of 2025 is now available to request on NetGalley! #ukkidlit #kidlituk

My Carnegie-shortlisted YA book The Things We Leave Behind is currently 99p on Kindle! amzn.eu/d/53vlbnh

My Carnegie-shortlisted YA book The Things We Leave Behind is currently 99p on Kindle! amzn.eu/d/53vlbnh

Clare is the best - I'd recommend any school grabbing the opportunity to host a very experienced, charismatic, Carnegie shortlisted author visit while you can!

Teachers and librarians! I’m taking a very few more school visit bookings for the Autumn Term and World Book Week. If you’re interested please get in touch via my website: clarefurniss.com #ukkidlit #kidlituk

Have you seen our latest What To Read Now blog? There are recommendations for ages 9+, 11+ and 13+ from Abiola Bello, @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social‬ and @clarefurniss.bsky.social ➡️ buff.ly/VRAUKA8 #ReadingForPleasure

Did you catch our latest What To Read Now blog? There are recommendations for ages 9+, 11+ and 13+ from Abiola Bello, @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social‬ and @clarefurniss.bsky.social 🎉 buff.ly/VRAUKA8 #ReadingForPleasure

I had a great time doing this! Thank you Robert and @rnibradio.bsky.social for a great chat 😊

New Substack post on Maybe I'm Amazed! A Record Store Day special, on 8 great shops & my new book's story. Includes @ravesfromthegrave.bsky.social, @piccadillyrecs.bsky.social, @roughtraderecords.bsky.social, @driftrecords.com & more maybeimamazed.substack.com/p/a-record-s... #RSD2025

I got an honorary mention, which means I'm in the top 8. It's a lovely confidence boost when you reach the top 8 in an international writing competition. I'd recommend entering competitions to all #writers (if eligible)on that basis alone...

Very excited that my preordered copy of @johnharris1969.bsky.social’s memoir about his son James, autism, music and love has already arrived… So looking forward to reading this beautiful book

Good advice here on action for authors to take - I’ll be doing this

Very proud The Things We Leave Behind is shortlisted! Thank you UKLA 🙏🤩📚

The latest instalment in the wonderful Bigg School series is here 🎉 Congratulations Lisa!

Just blown away to be on the Carnegie shortlist! What an unbelievable honour, thank you 🤩 Huge congratulations to all the shortlisted authors and illustrators!#carnegies2025

Buy this you Nitwits! #EvilPea @simonkids.bsky.social

WOW!! #WorldOfWanda is in the #PrimarySchoolBookClub Feb. 2025 vote this evening! Please VOTE, VOTE, VOTE for my backpacking #ADHD heroine, who aches for a home & family that doesn't exist. Or does it? Pootle over to @PrimarySchoolBC on X & vote using the pinned tweet. @uclanpublishing.bsky.social

New Substack post on Maybe I'm Amazed... on music, autism, the limits of language - and The Cure's utterly transcendent Happy-sad masterpiece Just Like Heaven open.substack.com/pub/maybeima...

Lovely, insightful review of #WorldOfWanda in Saturday's #Guardian. Thanks, @imogenrw.bsky.social! #backpacking #homesickness #secretfamilies #adhd

Morning. On Tuesday 17th June, I’m taking part in a Klaus Flugge Salon- an intimate launch event for The Dawn of Adonis. Tickets are limited to 30, and available here. www.tickettailor.com/events/ander...

Exciting news! A free-to-attend summer school in September in Oxford on fantasy with publishers, authors and experts, generously sponsored by Bloomsbury. All the details here: fantasyliteratureschool.web.ox.ac.uk/home

Thanks so much @stephenjdilley.bsky.social 😁🐮

I’m so proud that The Things We Leave Behind is on the Carnegie longlist!! Thank you @carnegiemedals.bsky.social I’m honoured it’s there alongside a spectacular selection of books 🤩

*IT’S BOOK BIRTHDAY O’CLOCK!!* #WorldOfWanda is a story of backpacking, homesickness, #ADHD and secret families, and it’s out today! Me and my PA Bonnie popped into our local Pickled Pepper Bookshop to sign copies and celebrate… 🎉📕 @uclanpublishing.bsky.social @theagencybooks.bsky.social

RIP Marianne Faithfull. Four years I ago I sat in on a conversation between her and Courtney Love. She was very ill but indomitable. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Once more, but with make up. PEOPLE LIKE STARS, my new middle grade contemporary mystery is out today. Three young people. A stolen baby. A family secret. A grumpy tattooed woman of a certain age who definitely bears absolutely no resemblance to anyone I know. Or am. Cover #michellebrackenborough

THE DAWN OF ADONIS, cover illustrated by Tom Clohosy Cole, publishing in June…x

Beyond the Secret Garden by @darrenchetty.bsky.social & @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social is truly brilliant, vital reading for everyone with anything to do with children's books! Foreword by @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social, cover by @lucyfarfort.bsky.social & published by @engmediacentre.bsky.social

Applications for 2025 Illustrator in Residence now open at The RSL for twelve months to explore the relationship between literature and illustration. This is a paid residency of £5,000 from springtime 2025 until springtime 2026. Please share!

Top Ten Tuesday: Best (non-debut) books of 2024! @bexhogan.bsky.social @silvanhistorian.bsky.social @clarefurniss.bsky.social @rflong.bsky.social @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social sifaelizabethreads.wordpress.com/2024/12/31/b...

Happy new year! In 2024, I read 232 books (lots of them very short). These were my favourite children's and YA books, all of which will be enjoyed by adults as well as younger readers. @catherinebruton.bsky.social @clarefurniss.bsky.social @jprosewriter.bsky.social @sarahcrossan.bsky.social

News: Maybe I'm Amazed is my new memoir about my autistic son James, how songs became our shared language, and the hidden story of music & neurodivergence. It's out on March 27th. I'm writing a (free) newsletter on all this (and the SEND crisis). Sign up! maybeimamazed.substack.com

Congratulations Lu! #ukkidlitnews

As a proud Little Green Pig Ambassador, I must shout out our #biggivechristmaschallenge. Match funding is still available so for every £1 you donate before noon tomorrow, £2 will go directly towards nurturing the creative potential of our young writers! Thank you 💚 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

In light of the findings in the CLPE Reflecting Realities report, in 2025 I’m going to be starting regular free Ask Me Anything Zoom sessions for UK children’s writers of colour and BookTrust will host the first in March to help reach more writers! 📚

Another book I loved this year was Bird Boy by Catherine Bruton. When Will and Omar find an injured baby osprey in the wild, they try to keep her alive. Full of hope and written with such heart and sensitivity, it made me cry. Age 10+ #BookElves2024 #LateLateToyShow

One of my favourite YA novels of the year is Apocalypse Cow by O. R. Sorrell (Age 15+). #BookElves2024 Holy cow, this book is fun! A riotous LGBTQ+ dystopian horror, full of longing, secrets, and deadly animals, it had me gripped from start to finish.

Have you seen our starter pack for UK reading charities and not-for-profit organisations? go.bsky.app/KG27ugU #ukkidlit #kidlituk #readingforpleasure

One of the purest joys of the writing life is seeing brilliant friends get the acclaim they deserve! Fantastic shortlist and I’m so happy to see Bird Boy on it 👏👏👏

Lucky enough to see this yesterday with my teens and it was completely joyous. Ncuti Gatwa as dazzling as you’d expect and Sharon D Clarke SPECTACULAR as Lady Bracknell 😍

🔊 Our 7th annual #ReflectingRealities report is out now! This year’s report shows a significant drop in the presence of racially minoritised characters in books published for children in 2023 in the UK.

YA authors, we have a YA starter pack here. We're adding people here 💕 go.bsky.app/RJY3oLN #kidlituk

Yikes, due to the weather we are unsurprisingly quiet today, a bit nerve wracking for small businesses on a Saturday. So, here’s a look at our current bestsellers and a selection of books we also love. All available here at the shop and online rocketshipbookshop.co.uk/product-cate...

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Pauline Prescott looks perfect for a lost #TheSmiths sleeve.

Send help! I'm stuck in a fantastic kids' historical novel! LOVING Shadow Creatures by Chris Vick, set in Norway in WW2. It's beautifully written and the setting, folklore and hopeful heroism of the anti-Nazi resistance feel grounded in truth and balancing ambiguity. I don't want it to end.