Very exciting. #TheMatchboxGirl finding its way out into the world.

Total desperation from Darren Jones He faces a serious challenge from @TheGreenParty in his Bristol constituency He hasn't walked the talk and has been architect of much climate damaging policy Bring it on www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This conversation between ChatGPT and the young man it encouraged to commit suicide is just...my god www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Thank you so much @alicejolly.bsky.social for this fabulous The Matchbox Girl coming from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social on 6th November. I’m thrilled to have it. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/matchbox-...

Thanks so much. Yes @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social did a great job on this cover. As well as looking good it also cleverly represents several different aspects of the book.

Heading to Daunts in Marylebone this evening for the London* launch of the mesmerising new novel by wife @alicejolly.bsky.social *of course it’s the Stroud launch in November that we really care about

Thanks! Hope you enjoy it. @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social have certainly created a very beautiful looking book.

Hey @dailymail.co.uk we fixed your newspapers for you 💋 Lord Rothermere who owns the Daily Mail pays NO TAX in the UK. The rest of us fund public services, he CHOSES not to. Yet we’re supposed to believe problems in the NHS are migrants’ fault? The utter cheek.

Enormously proud to be the new UK home of Beryl Bainbridge. In March 2026, we kick things off in earnest by publishing AN AWFULLY BIG ADVENTURE, with an intro by Yiyun Li, and THE BOTTLE FACTORY OUTING, with an intro by A. K. Blakemore. Ruthlessly smart, darkly comic, her novels are sharp-edged gems

We're very proud to be the first publisher to have the Books By People stamp - and that it should be going to Telenovela, a book about the fight against authoritarianism and all the associated nonsense: www.thebookseller.com/news/uk-star...

Writers please spread far and wide. Six of my books were scraped by Meta (and the situation is much worse for many others). This cannot put right the past but it does enable readers to support publishers who value the work of actual writers. Thanks so much to those who have worked on this.

Will be talking with Rebecca Abrams about my new novel The Matchbox Girl (about the real Dr Asperger) published by @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social at 7.30 19 November at the wonderful Caper Books in East Oxford. Tickets below. Hope to see you there! checkout.square.site/merchant/ML2...

Do not wait for your books to be banned to join @authorsabb.bsky.social. Please stand up for our colleagues, our readers, and the freedom to read and write today. www.authorsagainstbookbans.com

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

'“I just don’t know how you go around, asking everyone first. I just don’t see how that would work,” Clegg said.' It's called a market.

Will complain about this when I’m home. It’s worth it. The weight of complaints against that analysis-free Mason puff piece on the Reform conference did make them amend it.

Very thrilled by this generous post about my book

stroudbookfestival.org.uk/events/match... Tickets on sale @stroudbookfestival.bsky.social Will be discussing 'The Matchbox Girl' (about the real Dr Asperger) 7.30-8.30 pm on Saturday 8 November in Lansdown Hall. Drinks to follow. Hope to see you there. (Many other great events at the Book Fest).

Thank you @katebarker.bsky.social . There was a section on the inaccurately negative impression of autism and autistic people that is part of this whole sorry saga. Got lost in the editing but important not to lose sight of it in the conversation 🤔😗

Why on earth is the BBC running a live blog of this American hate fest? The murder of Charlie Kirk was sad and significant, but do we really need live coverage of a series of white men seeking to make political capital from it? Why is a public service broadcaster amplifying his hateful views?

Friends do consider following @pressjustice.bsky.social New charity (linked to @hackedoff.bsky.social ) which educates young people about media ethics and enables them to look at press articles in a critical manner. Husband @stephenstroud.bsky.social is Chair of Trustees and helped to set this up.

Ever wondered what 1,300 books like? Thanks @goldsborobooks.bsky.social and @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social Book out on 6 November. It tells the story of the real Dr Asperger - was he an amazing pioneer of autism research or a Nazi collaborator? #fiction #historicalfiction

‘Business secretary Peter Kyle was asked by Sky News’ Trevor Phillips this morning if the demonstration – organised by far-right activist Tommy Robinson – “disturbed” him. Kyle said the number of people who turned out for the protest shows free speech is “alive and well” in the UK.’ For shame

this is a moving inmersive essay from playwright and poet Dan O’Brien, who experienced both 9/11 and the LA fires firsthand, on the increasingly suffocating sense of ambient catastrophe, and what we might need to survive www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Totally recommend this book for those, like myself, who have always worked in the book world but have never been able to comprehend the madness of the whole thing ..... So much suddenly became clear (and most not good).

Amazing small press which was winner of The Republic of Consciousness Prize when I was a judge. Only started recently but already have an impact. Do follow and support.

The arrest of five spokespeople from the ‘Lift the Ban’ campaign against the proscription of pro-Gaza group Palestine Action – now designated a ‘terror’ organisation – has now been damned as ‘chilling’ by the Liberal Democrats and the human rights group Amnesty International

🔴 Palestine Action Arrests Condemned as ‘Deeply Alarming’ While British Press Remains Silent The Liberal Democrats described the arrests of campaigners against the ban on the group as a “dangerous precedent” for free speech, yet the British press remains mysteriously quiet about it

New novel 'The Matchbox Girl' out from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social November. 12 year old Adelheid tells the story of real Dr Asperger and the staff of the Curative Education Ward in Nazi occupied Vienna. Who tells the stories of the people who were not heroes? res.cloudinary.com/bloomsbury-a...

BREAKING: Met Police arrest 50 of 600-700 ‘terrorist supporters’ before the 2pm chime. “We will keep going. Our numbers are already growing for the next wave of action in September.” Read here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Why The Palestine Action Protest Will Be A Particularly Tough Test For Yvette Cooper And The Police The Home Office has to handle both the logistics and its image this weekend. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/police...

Statement from Defend Our Juries just now

PS: You may have read this story already. The BBC ran a version of it yesterday We shared our FOI docs with their reporter and press office. Their response? To publish the story - our story - without even notifying us. A £6bn public broadcaster selling out a tiny investigative newsletter. Nice. 😔

The Terrorism Act 2000 specifically ensures that it is lawful to organise for the de-proscription of a group. There should be no law in democracy that cannot be opposed. That is the very mark of democracy itself. Help us share legal info elsewhere: www.wedonotcomply.org

It appears that the web hosts for our campaign website have been contacted to suggest that we may be in breach of their T&Cs There’s no breach - we’ve checked. The impact of this is that 1000s of people are blocked from legal information to ensure their legal rights are upheld!

BREAKING Defend Our Juries website taken down as attack on freedom of speech worsens - blocking access to important legal info for protestors. This is what happens when the Government uses anti-terror law to silence dissent. www.wedonotcomply.org <— legal info here instead!

Brilliant! I judged last year and loved every minute. Small presses are where all the interesting writing is right now! And you are working with @marinabenjamin.bsky.social and @stuhennigan.bsky.social so, overall, I can't think of anything better! Enjoy it and I'm looking forward to the long list!

Manchester University Press has acquired Richard Smyth’s Greenshirts, a new book that uncovers the "deep, often obscured entanglements between fascist ideologies and environmental thought" over the past 150 years 👇

Congratulations. Fascinating and challenging subject. Looking forward to it.

Just to be clear, the other post shows the US terms. My post shows the non-US terms. Insane rights grab, including to train LLMs on the content you transfer.

Would love to get to this but can't. Sounds like it will be a great evening.

I never expected, as an ex EU antitrust lawyer, to be spending quite so much time discussing tax...... @patmillsuk.bsky.social www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

“In two separate letters to Yvette Cooper, the Network for Police Monitoring lawyers’ group and the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers said that proscribing the group would set a dangerous precedent.” - writes Haroon Siddique. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

MPs approve plan to proscribe Palestine Action as terrorist group. The plans will now need to pass through the House of Lords before coming into effect, and Palestine Action have been granted a hearing in the High Court to challenge the plans. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The ban on Palestine Action will rebound on Labour, writes Dr Lynne Jones. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...