"I want to champion the power of books to connect us and make us feel like we belong" @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social, our new Waterstones #ChildrensLaureate 2026-28, speaking powerfully about the role of stories to build connection and community - and how this will be the focus of her Laureateship.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

The Correspondent by Virginia Evans is the 2026 winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction. Congratulations Virginia! @michaeljbooks.bsky.social

The 2026 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction is awarded to Lyse Doucet for 'The Finest Hotel In Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan'. Congratulations Lyse!

Our colleagues are being impersonated online and in emails claiming to be from our agents. Please be vigilant – Blake Friedmann only send emails from our agency address ending @blakefriedmann.co.uk, and will never ask for payment from prospective clients.

*EVENT - 11.6* Join us tomorrow evening as we welcome Rebecca F. John, writing as Catrin Cadogan, to the shop! Rebecca will be in conversation with Elaine Canning about her brand new Welsh myth-inspired fantasy, Red Dragon Song. Tickets and details 👇 www.waterstones.com/events/red-d...

The Empathy Day Festival 4 -11 June with @empathylabuk.bsky.social JUMP into someone else’s story with a FREE week-long Festival offering education settings, bookshops, libraries, community groups and families worldwide fun and inspiring activities which build real life empathy through stories.

Can a girl vanish twice? Rosanna Quillan is determined to find out what happened - but it's never that simple. New #book. #Crimefiction. amzn.eu/d/07mCoZDJ

"A people sometimes will step back from war, elect an honest man, decide they care enough, that they can’t leave some stranger poor. Some men become what they were born for..." - "Sometimes," Sheenagh Pugh

People at @easterconuk.bsky.social, my friend Lizzy Duffield-Fuller has a stall in Dealers. Her latest novel is Very Feminist. Here is my review: www.salonfutura.net/2026/03/kill...

Acclaimed Welsh actor Sharon Morgan has lent her voice to a powerful new campaign highlighting the often-overlooked experiences of older people affected by sexual violence and domestic abuse

Huw Aaron has won the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize with Sleep Tight, Disgusting Blob (Puffin) 👇 #BookSky

Huge thanks to everyone who came along to the #Entangled launch event last night, #EmmaRea 's stunning Venetian adventure will be available from bookshops and libraries next week! 📚📖🇮🇹

Please read this eloquent expression of the fury so many of us feel.

Wales-based publisher Lucent Dreaming has announced their anthology of work by deaf and disabled Welsh writers has been shortlisted for The British Book Awards

Blueprints is here www.parthianbooks.com/products/blu...

How are we celebrating the #NationalYearofReading2026? 📚 Funded author visits for 2026 📚 Firefly Book Club 📚 Book boxes for schools and libraries 📚 Themed reading packs For more info, head to: www.fireflypress.co.uk/nationalyearofreading/ #readingforpleasure

Salt by Catrin Kean- a Wales Book of the Year. In the 1880s, a Cardiff girl falls for a ship’s cook from Barbados - Mon-Fri 22.45 @BBCRadio4 or listen now @BBCSounds Read by Kezrena James abridged @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social & produced by Fay Lomas & @mair.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Poetry collections from @fireflypress.bsky.social are always brilliant and Fresh by @rhiannonoliver.bsky.social is no exception! Full of lively poems about friendship, kindness and the natural world and what a treat: striking illustrations by Chris Ridell. Pub. 9th April Highly Recommended!

HarperNorth has acquired Red Dragon Song by Rebecca F John, writing as Catrin Cadogan. Publication is scheduled for June 2026 👇 #BookSky

Happy Book Birthday to our favorite baker/spy, Alice Éclair! Alice Éclair, Spy Extraordinaire: A Sprinkling of Danger by @sarahtoddtaylor is the exciting third installment full of daring espionage, glamorous settings, and delicious cakes!

An important message beautifully presented by writer/illustrator and SoA Fellow Sarah McIntyre.

Looking for something new to read? Both the Asking for a Friend and Michael the Great Globetrotting Sausage Dog Kindle eBooks are on sale in Australia until the end of the month! Grab them while you can. @katemallinder.bsky.social @cowfishdreams.bsky.social @mrtimdraws.bsky.social

📙HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY! ⛪️⁠ ⁠ Cathy Faulkner's gorgeous new middle grade post-WWI verse novel is OUT TODAY! ⁠ ⁠ 'Faulkner once again impresses with the elegance, insight and dramatic intensity of her writing.' Lancashire Evening Post⁠ ⁠https://fireflypress.co.uk/books/treasure-seekers/

A chartered account-turned author has become the first writer to be shortlisted for two different books by the Waterstones children’s book prize

Brave New World: Justice for creators in the age of GenAI In our ongoing commitment to campaign for author rights and interests, we have joined forces with other creator-led organisations to co-launch a ground-breaking report showing the onset of a creative jobs crisis in the UK. buff.ly/wThFNtu

"These are my lands. These are my hills, my valleys, my grass and sky and moon. My hares.My people." Duffield-Fuller brings to life shapeshifters, dragons and elemental bonds to explore resistance and the quiet magic of becoming your own legend🌙@honnopress.bsky.social uk.bookshop.org/p/books/kill...

This is such a brilliant #HistoricalFiction #Book by @julietgreenwood.bsky.social The Shakespeare Sisters by Juliet Greenwood #WW2 #Booksky #Reading

We are pleased to announce the longlist for the 2026 #BranfordBoase Award, recognising the year's outstanding debut writers for children AND their editors 👏#kidlit #booksky Thank you to @alcs.co.uk & @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social for their support. branfordboaseaward.org.uk/2026-longlist/

Literature Wales has announced the launch of a poetry project aimed at improving understanding of women’s health conditions and supporting ongoing work to address inequalities in healthcare in Wales

I’ve seen lots of posts promoting the National Year of Reading which is brilliant! Not so brilliant is that there are some using AI-generated imagery which is disheartening. Illustrations are really important when it comes to children wanting to pick up books. Let’s keep the industry thriving!

✨COVER REVEAL✨️ CIRCLING THE STARS is an enchanting tale of secret nighttime walks, a mysterious fox and finding friendship in the most unexpected of places. Touching on themes of loss, change, nurture and healing. 🖊️ Written by Laura Sheldon 🎨 Designed in-house @fireflypress.bsky.social

Sarah is posting a multi-part story over the coming days. The Wish Star and the Five Wishes, Part 1, is available now. Part 2 out later today. @sarahtoddtaylor.bsky.social sarahtoddtaylor.com/2025/12/17/t...

I read Big Words by Luke Palmer this weekend & wish we could get all angry young (& older) men to read it. It is published in March by @barringtonstoke.bsky.social, one of their snappy novellas that packs *everything* into few words, hopefully a great conversation starter in 2ndry schools #KidLitUK

The Mab - a modern take on the Mabinogion with a foreword by Michael Sheen, has been given a new lease of life after being rescued from destruction

ICYMI: More than 1,500 copies of The MAB, a children’s title edited by authors Matt Brown and Eloise Williams, have been rescued by Welsh indie publisher Firefly Press, following Boundless collapse 👇 #BookSky

Our Contracts and Advice team provide expert support for members at every stage of their author career. This year we have:

Need a gift for your globetrotter this Christmas? We’ve got you covered!📚🎄🎁 Shop the 2025 Ilse Schwepcke Prize winner and shortlist on @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social (link in our bio).

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

It’s our bookshop signing day with Mari Ellis Dunning and Carys Shannon. Come say hello at our stops along the way 👋🏻 Just popped into The Hours Brecon. Up next @book-ish.bsky.social in Abergavenny at 11am

Independent publisher Firefly Press is set to publish a new series celebrating classic Welsh stories for children and young adults 👇 #BookSky

TONIGHT!!

I'm very much looking forward to this event, next Friday.

So, who's going to win??? The Faithful or #TheTraitors? Comment your guess on this post before 9pm tonight, 6/11/25, and we'll pick a random winner from those correct to win #LieorDie and #LieorDieBloodMoon by #AJClack UK only. @bouncemarketing.bsky.social #CelebrityTraitors

Join Carys Shannon on her debut book tour with events and signings held throughout the month. "Suspenseful and suffused in the uncanny power of the ever-shifting tides of a Welsh estuary, Carys Shannon’s Truth Like Water is a first-rate mystery novel” – Joanne Owen, @lovereadinguk.bsky.social

Join author Gosia Buzzanca at @bookspacecardiff.bsky.social this Saturday! Gosia will be speaking about her debut memoir 'There She Goes, My Beautiful World' 📚 🕡 6:30pm 📅 Saturday 1st November 📍 Bookspace, Cardiff Buy your ticket here: www.bookspacecardiff.co.uk/products/the...

The Booker Prize Foundation has launched the Children’s Booker Prize, the charity’s first award for children’s fiction. 👇 #BookSky

We are delighted to reveal that @onewomanwalks is the winner of the inaugural #TheIlseSchwepckePrize for her book, ONE WOMAN WALKS EUROPE. A huge congratulations to Ursula, and to all shortlisted authors @theilseschwepckeprize #literaryprize #womentravellers #travelwriting #bookstagram

Stephanie Yeboah said: ‘...The author takes readers on a journey not just across landscapes but into the heart of perseverance and self-discovery, with warmth and honesty shining through every page.’ Read more about the 2025 shortlist through the link in our bio.