Get a whopping 25% off when you pre-order my debut MG children's novel "The Night I Borrowed Time" from @waterstones.bsky.social ! Valid online until 23.59 Friday 17th October. Enter the code "OCTOBER25" at checkout to redeem the offer. Happy reading! Link: www.waterstones.com/book/the-nig...

A playlist of studio demos and workshop recordings from the first draft of Wildfire Season, an existential musical about highland firefighters. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Thrilled to be the UK winner of The World of Interiors x Montblanc writing competition! You can read my essay here: www.worldofinteriors.com/story/when-t...

My publisher just sent me a video of the Little Rebels shortlist in the window of radical booksellers Housmans, including Cottonopolis! www.instagram.com/reel/DNkmpTL... As well as being in the window display (!), the book is also available to order from Housmans: housmans.com/product/cott...

I just finished a proof of this brilliant book! Witty, poignant and thought-provoking. (Also made me realise I am much shallower than the main character Zubair and would be going back in time to ride dinosaurs rather than help my family)

Honoured to have an essay in Bread Alone, a ground-breaking and important anthology from @indienovella.bsky.social featuring 32 working-class writers, collated and edited by award-winning journalist Kate Pascal. Pub: 9 March 2026. Pre-order: t.co/9AwOtMjLXC

GASLIGHT by Patrick Hamilton 22-27 September Lace Market Theatre Nottingham Directed by me! 🎟️ lacemarkettheatre.co.uk/LaceMarketTh... 📸 Kathryn Edwards

I’ve been waiting a while to share this! Thank you @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social @waterstoneskids.bsky.social

Thrilled to come home to a proof of @ihussainwriter.bsky.social new novel #TheNightIBorrowedTime Can’t wait to get stuck in - thank you Iqbal & Puffin ❤️

Ta-da! My new book, The Notwitches: Prison Break, is out NOW! Huge thanks to all at @chickenhousebooks.bsky.social, Dotty Sutton for her brilliant artwork and my wonderful agent @rachelpmann.bsky.social. And of course big thanks to everyone who buys it, which you can do here: garypanton.co.uk/books/

A moving, funny and resonant middle grade debut. Big fan of @ihussainwriter.bsky.social's writing and I know you will be too! The Night I Borrowed Time comes out February 2026.

It's a good while since I posted about my book, but if you're somehow not getting enough dystopian drama from the news, maybe go check it out?! It's got a country sliding into authoritarianism, banned books, and the Authorisation Bureau disappearing people... srlpublishing.co.uk/product/the-...

Please come. This will be amazing

Please consider voting “Northern Boy” for the Readers’ Choice Awards. Deadline 1 Sep! Link: bit.ly/DBAReadersCh...

Fancy another alternate reads poster? There’s a wealth of brilliant children’s books around memories and/or intergenerational relationships so instead of reading Grandpa’s Great Escape, here are some alternatives. Which other books would you include? #kidlituk

This is wonderful to see! Thank you so much, Sophie

Unbound/Boundless might be gone, but our love for our books remains! Just two weeks to go until I'm at @thecommonpress.bsky.social bookshop with José Daniel Alvior and Zahra Barri talking all things literary and love. Come support us if you can. Thu 21 Aug, 7pm: www.outsavvy.com/event/28654/...

It's finally happening. Writers' HQ is heading to LONDON! Walthamstow Writers' Retreat is launching on Saturday 9 August and will be hosted by the AMAZING and INCREDIBLE and RIDICULOUSLY TALENTED @ihussainwriter.bsky.social. Come write with us! writershq.co.uk/creative-wri...

There are so SO many Unbound books that I personally want to buy and read as soon as the authors will get money from them and this is one of the top ones. Please can another publisher pick this up ASAP

After yesterday’s amazing news of being longlisted for the Diverse Book Awards, today the flip side. The publisher Boundless, who took over from Unbound, has folded. As disappointing as this is to me and their other authors, nothing can take away from the joy that was - and is - “Northern Boy”.

If you make it past the brilliant Salt Path piece in the Observer today, I’ve got two stories in there: - Fertility funding soars as global birthrates fall observer.co.uk/news/busines... - Sperm donor app is a ‘serious risk’, warns regulator observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

A fantastic play. I can’t wait to see what you do with it.

Wow! What a gorgeous surprise this #Pride2025 to see the fantastic Simon James Green recommending Northern Boy for Pride month. Totally stoked! Thank you, Simon. X

Apologies , tonight’s author event with Jose, Zahra and me @thecommonpress.bsky.social bookshop has been cancelled. Hopefully it’ll be rescheduled.

And here is the @thebookseller.com piece. A delight and honour to be featured in a double page spread! Photo credit Elaine Livingstone.

I’m beyond thrilled to be featured in this week’s @thebookseller.com ‘s Northern Powerhouse issue, talking about all things time travelling and my debut children’s novel, “The Night I Borrowed Time”, out Feb 2026 from @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social . www.thebookseller.com/editions/hom...

Your quiet stories matter!! We @lit-namjooning.bsky.social want them! We want them so much we made a yellow video about them! Subs close July 3!

Come join me, @jdalvior and Zahra Barri talking about three very different books, but all with the theme of love and desire, at the fabulous @TheCommonPress in east London. Sunday 15 June, 19:00 – 21:00. Pay what you can. More details here: www.commonpress.co.uk/event-detail...

Paul Dalton – Author Q&A www.bigbeardedbookseller.com/2025/04/16/p... This sounds great. Out imminently with @indienovella.bsky.social

A bold spectrum of debut voices @thecommonpress.bsky.social, London's queer intersectional bookshop. Join @sachacoward.bsky.social, Majid Parsa, @alvior.bsky.social, Zahra Barri, @ihussainwriter.bsky.social and celebrate queer storytelling. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @unboundsocials.bsky.social @neemtreepress.bsky.social

Totally blown away by this latest review for #NorthernBoy

Just spotted this latest review on Amazon. Suffice to say it’s made my day. If you’ve read and enjoyed “Northern Boy”, please do consider leaving a review. It counts towards all sorts of algorithms - and puts a spring in my step!

Learn how to write a swoon-worthy love story! 📖 💓 Join our six-week online Writing a Romance Novel course with teaching videos, notes and writing tasks from bestselling author, @jennycolgan.bsky.social Course starts 24 Apr. Enrol now:

I genuinely think you will like this. Yes, you. 😄

And I'm in @thebookseller.com ! I promise, this isn't an elaborate April Fool's joke! Author photo by Elaine Livingstone. Thank you @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social

Brilliant to click on a bookseller link and see @ihussainwriter.bsky.social's face! Great news pal! www.thebookseller.com/news/puffin-... #KidLit

I’m just going to quietly leave this here … me and the famous puffin on the same page.

Come to the next live recording of The Breakup Monologues! We had a blast @poodleclub.bsky.social last month. So we’re back on April 24 with @athenakugblenu.bsky.social @laurenbravo.bsky.social @ihussainwriter.bsky.social Once again we’re mixing comedy & literature 📚 wegottickets.com/event/651454

Signed, dedicated copies available here!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

Here’s a quick flick-through of my illustrations for Becoming Grace by the wonderful #hilarymckay. Hilary brings to life the world Grace Darling knew before her fame - the hardships and excitement of growing up in a lighthouse, with her large family and a dog called Happy. Out April 10th!

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Thank you so much! And I love that I was able to mention The Children’s Society bookshop in there.

A wonderful evening interviewing @ihussainwriter.bsky.social on his defiant and dazzling debut novel Northern Boy for LGBTQ+ history month. Really lovely to meet such an engaged audience brimming with questions of their own, thanks for having us Paddington Library!

Join me tomorrow evening (Tuesday) from 6pm at Paddington Library, London, when I talk all things #NorthernBoy as part of LGBT+ History Month. Free to attend. #LGBTplusHM25 @lgbthm.bsky.social @unbounders.bsky.social

A few of our recently added eBook titles, featuring, amongst others, @tracychevalier.bsky.social #MirandaHart @ihussainwriter.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social Download and read with a Kirklees Library card and @libbyapp.bsky.social app from kirklees.overdrive.com #ReadKirklees

It's taken, like, FOREVER, but I've finally updated my website! Plenty of new stuff, including a whole load of BONUS scenes from #NorthernBoy. @unbounders.bsky.social www.ihussainwriter.com

Catch me talking all things #NorthernBoy on Tuesday 18 February as part of #LGBTplusHM25. Free event, at Paddington Library 18:00-19:30. There'll also be the chance to buy signed copies. @unbounders.bsky.social

It was such an uplifting and empowering catch-up. The dream team. X

If you're a children's writer or illustrator, you won't want to miss this: a week-long writing retreat on the magical island of Iona, Scotland. From 25 Oct 2025. Supported places available. From the fab folk at The Rock Retreat and Accord Literary. Info: therockretreats.com/iona2025/