There are soooo many! But I do think that SF Said’s Tyger would make a glorious animation, in the style of Dave McKean’s stunning illustrations of course!

Funding libraries (including school libraries) properly. This One Weird Trick should be a priority for central government. #GoAllIn #NationalYearofReaading. But for smaller scale stuff, if adults could just stop judging children's reading matter that would be a start. And costs nothing!

Cover reveal time! An adult science fiction novel tinged with horror, about the crew of a small warship in a relatively near future where humans hitch rides to the stars on sentient star-faring mountain ranges called Massifs. Can be pre-ordered at the usual places, *please* do so. Thank you.

Happy World Book Day! Celebrating with a fun little doodle from Anaya (age 10). The message: read whatever you love in whatever format you want! 📖 🎧 ✨ 🎉 It’s ALL reading. #kidlit #worldbookday

Happy #WorldBookDay to all who celebrate! I am three school visits in, eight to go and so very happy the sun is shining!! #kidlituk #ukkidlit #booksky

I wrote the Dredd story in this!

What a joy to be included with such wonderful women! Thank you @womensprize.bsky.social

Every now and then when I think I'm not making enough progress on a book, I look back at my list of published books and consider that I've had this same thought with every single one of them. (Even the short or very short ones. Getting them right takes time.)

Hello, book people! I am the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for 2026 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romantasy, and speculative books coming out in the second half of the year! If you have an adult or YA SFF/H book out July-Dec (or publicist), share the link/info here!

World book day event madness tomorrow. I have my props (horse's head, giant snake, various beards, cuddly toy Mjolnir) and my hand sanitiser. Now I just need a clean joke to tell the kids if something goes wrong and I need to fill time. What's your favourite child-friendly joke?

Thrilled that my new pamphlet is available for pre-order from the wonderful @thebraag.bsky.social thebraag.co/product/empi... #ukpoets #poetrysky

I was nominated for a Zelda Award! Please vote for me here: www.izivote.com/v/the-zelda-...

Oh glory BE… The ASFOS T-shirts and hoodies are now available at the Skulduggery shop. Wear Cadaver Cain’s grinning visage with PRIDE! shop.skulduggerypleasant.co.uk/products/sou...

#kidlitUK #UKKidlit @sarahcrossan.bsky.social @simonandschuster.bsky.social

Every Wednesday that I remember, I will post a children’s book I’ve enjoyed. If you’ve read it too, or you want to share another book, join in! The Destiny of Minou Moonshine, by Gita Ralleigh. Why do I like it? Read the alt text! #ukkidlit #kidlituk

It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.

📚 We’re joined by Sarah Crossan to discuss her gripping new verse novel Gone for Good, a read-in-one-go thriller set in the troubled teen industry. We also talk about screens, social media & protecting time for reading for pleasure. 🎧 Listen now: https://loom.ly/J0vXeb8 #SarahCrossan #YAlit

Amid the discussions about how to get kids reading, I am remembering how many comics and other periodicals I read as a kid - The Funday Times, Oink, The Puffin Post, Private Eye (I was a precocious little shit), The Beano, 2000AD etc etc. Reading in tiny little bits can be v appealing.

📣 Due to a last minute cancellation there is one space available on my Six Month Writing Course starting this weekend @gladlib.bsky.social To snap it up contact [email protected] www.gladstoneslibrary.org/event/the-si... Please share far and wide 🙏🏽

If you haven't already stumbled across Short Works on BBC Sounds, do give it a whirl. Lots of new & some established writers. Beautifully read by lyrical voices. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... @loujnicholls.bsky.social @littlebear75.bsky.social @intothehinterlands.co.uk

2000 AD prog 2471 goes on sale tomorrow - my first Judge Dredd comic! Written by me and @robwilliams71.bsky.social, art by @pauljholden.com, colours by Jack Davies and letters by Annie Parkhouse. Ned’s Dredd baby!

You’re dead inside if this doesn’t make you smile. Quick! Test it.

I used to love the challenge of it but now I'm a sewing teacher I feel I need to make content from the making rather than just enjoy it. I do love this video though I made with the boy. youtu.be/P1e7HxoCyy4?...

I am so proud of this big, weird book - if you have kids in your life (or just anyone who likes good comics) I would be super grateful if you preordered this. I just really want to make another one!

SATs, School Inspectors & a large spider! 2nd in The Misadventures of Mina Mahmood series will make kids howl with laughter! Published by @farshorebooks.bsky.social Written by #FarhanaIslam ills by #SimranDiamondSingh Here’s my review #UkKidLit vsviewfromthebookshelves.home.blog/2026/02/21/r...

Children’s book people - any suggestions for stories with great friendships (with Stargazing vibes)? #kidlit #childrensbooks

I’ve been hoping Maisie Chan would do an Author’s Live for ages. So excited for this! Open to all schools in the UK. Get your classes registered folks. It’s going to be another brilliant one. #KidLitUK #UKKidLit #EduSky

So much chat about business rates for pubs. So little chat about business rates for independent bookshops who do so much for their local communities.

5 authors I've read at least 5 books by: Robin Hobb Martha Wells Lois McMaster Bujold Naomi Novik T Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon) Just realised this list is entirely comprised of sci-fi/fantasy-writing women.

It's friday! Time for the weekly good news thread. What's your good news from the week? What's made you smile? What's brought some joy to you? #GoodNewsFriday (gonna start having a hashtag in case ppl wanna add stuff late/look back on things during the week)

With World Book Day just round the corner I’ve seen quite a few teachers asking about good books to share in assembly. For this week’s #KidsBooksFriday, what books do you think work well across age groups and/or with a mixed group of kids? #KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit

Continuing my list of children’s reading recommendations for the National Year of Reading. This time, we’re zooming in on comics. Just a few faves here and most are series. Titles and creators in the ALT text. #kidlit #kidscomics

An easy trap a writer can fall into is writing so much you don’t make time to read (no one wants to reach that Garth Marenghi stage being a writer that has written more books than he’s read) so I’m glad that my year has started off so well. What have YOU read so far this in 2026?

More than two-thirds of households struggling to afford a decent life are in work. New research from @lborouniversity.bsky.social funded by JRF, sets out the scale of the problem. A 🧵

It's #LunarNewYear! Explore our selection of books for young readers that reflect how much fun this festival is 🎇 https://bit.ly/3Orvwsz

This is how you live a life

Turns out kids are ALREADY asking for Hari Book 2. Last week, one heard me mention it and the news rippled down the signing queue! So here it is: HARI KUMAR, ULTIMATE SUPERSTAR - GOING FOR GOLD. Out 13th August. Art by Mamta Singh, design by Elorine Grant and Kate Clarke. 🎉🌟

At a time where the Radio 4 news output is cowardly and superficial, the WS still asks questions, still holds open a window to the world, still is my company in the dead of night (as it has been since the long nights of early-months motherhood). I'm here today b/c it was there for me then. 💟📻

I grew up on nuclear war/general nuclear horror books, from When the Wind Blows and 2000AD cursed earth stories to Space Hostages. I assume the current generation have climate change books in that same headspace? Or is fascism the more existential fear for 8 year olds? #KidLitUK

Sophie Anderson's The Thief Who Sang Storms is the best example I can think of. Beautiful book about the othering of an indigenous population who are disenfranchised, ghettoised, and routinely rounded up.

Could The Arrival by Shaun Tan count? Possibly more fantasy than sci-fi but perhaps treads the line in-between. I’m not sure these three exactly fit the brief but they are excellent sci-fi books that deal with power and control, setting humans as the outsiders.

Question raised in this thread...I mean raised by me but thru discussion: Can anyone think of any UK sci fi middle grade dealing in government racism/immigration? #UKKidLit

Earlier this week, @alomshaha.bsky.social was chatting about how the message of loving each other should inform more public discourse (beyond religion). So, for #KidsBooksFriday this week what kids books help kids to understand the importance of love in all its forms? #KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit

Gandalf really is heroic when you consider that there were originally five wizards and one of them turned evil, two of them fucked off and went out east to have orgies, and one is just super into talking to gophers. The one last hope of free peoples was the stoner and that crazy mfer did it.

Nominations are open for this year's Secondary School Librarian of the Year & Peter Usborne Primary School Library of the Year Awards until 9am on 16th February! The Awards are a chance to celebrate and advocate for school libraries everywhere. Find out more: buff.ly/HsKvsd9 #EduSkyUK

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I asked AI to name my wife. To the hopelessly incorrect people it cited, my deepest apologies | Martin Rowson

An excellent series for anyone interested in how we get children reading for pleasure. I have lots to catch up on but I had to give it a boost! #kidlituk #ukkidlit

I met young readers today in the signing queue who actually know and love my books. And readers who were excited to talk about their ADHD brains and writing. What is this life? Seriously. Blown away that I get to call this my job.