I've found research proving that arranging small lovely items like these👇 alleviates PTSD-will be part of my small museums for mental health wshop Sat 4 Oct Open to anyone,recorded in full in,3.5 hrs tuition,30% off my Etsy.Earlybird price expires in 4 days: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/smal...

Opportunity here for a writer on a low income to get access to a nine week novel writing course taught by the great @silvanhistorian.bsky.social www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/course/break...

Ellora McGee, Trainee Banshee's first adventure, The New School, is out NOW and available wherever you get your books (inc @dubraybooks.bsky.social @halfwayupbooks.bsky.social and @gutterbookshop.bsky.social)! If you've met Ellora and friends, PLEASE leave a review somewhere - it all helps! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

AI companies have sucked up the world's entire music catalogue and are guilty of "wilful, commercial-scale copyright infringement", a major music industry group has told AFP ➡️ u.afp.com/SPXF

The Green Community Grants Programme,will offer grants of up to £25,000 to small charities and not for profit groups contributing towards nature recovery and the climate emergency,also for proposals to improve places for nature and people’s access to them . www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/new-fun...

Even tertiary treatment can't remove PFAS. Swiss water authorities, like many around the world, are calling for a ban on PFAS. They say it's so incredibly hard to remove PFAS from water that the only way to prevent contamination is not to produce PFAS at all. 5/5 www.theguardian.com/science/audi...

Thank you so much for including #thelioncubssecret @hachettechildrens.bsky.social ❤️❤️🙏

‘High quality material’ - that’s all our life’s work is to this government: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Local wildlife sites are crucial for species to live, move and thrive. Yet most fall under the radar in planning. We must ensure animal welfare is built into every development strategy. #NatureRecovery #AnimalWelfare

A massive, dangerous and disgusting scandal, of which far too few people are yet aware. At @fightingdirty.bsky.social we'll keep pushing to stop it. Congrats to @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social for continuing to shine the light: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#PostOfTheWeek (season 2): Happy birthday.. Albert Barnett Facey (1894-1982), also known as A.B. Facey or Bert Facey, was an Australian author and a World War I veteran. He is best known for his autobiography, A Fortunate Life, published when he was 87.

99% of #BookTrustStorytime librarians we spoke to are worried about the decline in children reading for enjoyment. And they also told us they worry about a range of issues facing families in their communities. Find out how BookTrust Storytime could help: https://bit.ly/4mUYUDM

Not all those who wander are lost J.R.R. Tolkien

I’m posting this to over 35,000 brilliant people who care about the NHS. If everyone donated £1, we’d hit our goal in 5 mins. Can we do this? Please help us hold politicians to account! 💙🚨 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/everydocto...

New book alert! We will shortly be announcing the first of our six new titles for 2026. Hint: it’s set in New York and involves the world of Broadway! Sign up to our newsletter over at manderleypress.com for early access to all our news (and events and special offers too) 👀 #booksky #newbook

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days,in no particular order.No explanations,no expectations,just covers. Day 12: The Lion Cub’s Secret #WhiteGiraffe Pub in Oct.Thanks to @netgalley.bsky.social @orionbooks.bsky.social @laurenstjohn.bsky.social

These days, make sure you're really buying what you want to buy online. Also, if you see news that a favourite author has written something unexpected, unless that comes verifiably direct from them or their publisher, double and triple check that it isn't one of these increasingly prevalent frauds.

On this #PoisonedPlanet, so many threats to life. Cocktail of #pesticides and important issue for many species #NatureCrisis www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A wonderful snap from Amy Arnold, headteacher at Barnham CEVC Primary. She’s getting familiar with the books her team will be using to teach literacy in the new school year, alongside our planning… all with a rather idyllic holiday backdrop! 📚☀️🌊

Wonderful @waterstones.bsky.social are offering an incredible 25% off on pre-orders of the anniversary edition of #thewhitegiraffe, out in 11 September, and the new #thelioncubssecret, published by @hachettechildrens.bsky.social on 9 October 2025 #wildlifeadventures #MGfiction

Were you there today on Penistone Hill, Haworth (Brontë Country) for Actually the World's Most Wuthering Heights Day? Thanks to Julia Clarke from the Brontë Parsonage Museum for sharing this amazing video and images with us. Read the article in the thread for more info ⤵️

Actually the World’s Most Wuthering Heights Day Why 500 people will dance today in celebration and in protest in Haworth, home to Wuthering Heights By Clare Shaw @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

I came across yet another discussion about whether copyright law smothers creativity. I’ve made my living as a writer and artist for the best part of 30 years. Never in all that time have I felt that copyright law limited my creativity. The biggest limit has always been people not paying me enough.

Without doubt #DraculaAndDaughters is a brilliant piece of story telling by @emcarrollauthor.bsky.social I was hooked from the opening line of this absolutely unputdownable gothic adventure. A vampiric 5 out of 5 read. #ThisIsNotJustFictionThisIsEmmaCarrollFiction

This is cool, but the deadline looms (July 31). Get writing! #booksky

Please sign. This has a few days to make a difference. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters

ICYMI, #BfK273 is out now: interviews, articles & 75 new children's books reviewed inc books by @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social @jasbinderbilan.bsky.social @neillcameron.bsky.social @andyshepherdwriter.bsky.social. #KidLit #BookSky booksforkeeps.co.uk/issue/bfk-27...

The deep ocean supports planetary health in ways that science is only beginning to understand. The ISA must act as responsible stewards to protect the deep sea & safeguard the common heritage of humankind for future generations. @deepseaconserve.bsky.social deep-sea-conservation.org/resources/de...

“this £85 billion represents a direct transfer of value from the public to private owners — a sum extracted while storm overflows proliferated, leakage targets were missed, and river health declined”

The starfish delusion: why care, not strategy, is the real driver of change Care is the ground all systems stand on: it is the refusal to be paralysed by the size of the problem, but to act in spite of it By Mike Chitty @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Who wants to read about the first woman keeper of insects at London Zoo, and how she cut her way out of a giant spider's web with her nail file? Evelyn Cheesman, the second of the five women in my book: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/03...

You already had coffee. How do you not remember getting coffee?

This is heartbreaking news, if you could help out I’m sure it will be greatly appreciated #BookSky 💙📚

Last week, my local indie-bookshop was devastated by fire (info in alt-text). They’re hoping to reopen in temporary (much smaller) premises nearby, but to help tide them over, please consider buying a book from their page at uk.bookshop.org/shop/onetree.... Thank you! @bigbeardedbookseller.com

#OTD in 1928, Dorothy Pilley completed one of the most dangerous first ascents of the C20, the Dent Blanche by its overhanging northwest ridge. At one point she and her 3 fellow climbers had to swing out from under a stone eave, above 3,000 feet of thin air. She was wearing the wrong boots...1/

As Bookbanks new Ambassador I’d like to spread the word about this brilliant charity giving books with food at food banks. Please share and support if you’re able :) www.bookbanks.co.uk

Four year olds are not too old for picture books. A beautiful book was turned down by someone in the shop yesterday due to the child being about to start school, and therefore "too old" for picture books. Please don't force children to give up picture books too quickly. #kidlituk

An anonymous donor has given £6.25m to each of Oxford and Cambridge universities to support disadvantaged school students with an aptitude for science. Programmes will include GCSE maths mentoring and study skills for first-year undergraduates. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-07...

Thank you for all you do to support authors. The #lioncubssecret is out on 9 October 🦁