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The latest #rlfcollected episode is out today, a conversation between host Doug Johnstone and crime writer Howard Linskey. I found what Howard had to say about writing in a non-linear way particularly interesting, as I sort of write that way too… podcast.rlf.org.uk/483-howard-lin…

RLF Collected podcast (or one of the projects that's been keeping me busy this past year) ayearofreadingtheworld.com/2025/05/13/rlf…

So looking forward to talking books again this evening – see you in 30m? Calling all #bookreviewers, #bookbloggers and #booklovers… free and fun evening hearing about the best books to look out for this spring… We’re talking about Ann Morgan’s new book…

The stage is set for today's Gliterarylunches with Ann Morgan and Barbara Leahy . Let the fizz commence! Canongate (has left) Blake Friedmann Literary Agency

Proofs of RELEARNING TO READ: ADVENTURES IN NOT-KNOWING have just arrived. It’s my most ambitious, collaborative and personal book to date. Cover reveal with a twist coming next week!

That feeling when you’re reading the final pages of a great book and a wonderful tenderness and wistfulness begin to suffuse the writing, and you realise that this is a story the author loved writing and that they were as reluctant as you will be to let it go…

Such a pleasure to see the #coverreveal of Ann Morgan’s fab new non-fiction book Relearning to Read today – hearty thanks to Marina Sofia and Lucy Caldwell! Allow us to introduce the Ltd Ed cover too… 🧡💙 renardpress.com/books/relearni…

Time for #Bookpost! At last week's @indiepressnetwork.bsky.social this caught my eye. #RelearningToRead Ann Morgan . Thanks to the kind folks Renard Press for sending me an ARC. There's plenty of books on the art of writing, but what about reading? Think this will be engrossing

It was a joy to interview my friend, Laura Barnett, for #RLFCollected. Laura speaks with generous frankness about the challenges behind the success of her debut novel, THE VERSIONS OF US. What’s more, the music was composed by Laura’s husband Andy! podcast.rlf.org.uk/484-laura-barn…

"To starve a people of their language, is to kill their memory."- Ngugi wa Thiongo

Book of the month: Julian Maka'a ayearofreadingtheworld.com/2025/05/29/boo… With thanks to Suroor Alikhan

Another episode of #RLFCollected takes flight today. Alex Wong tells host Julia Copus what it’s like to write poems as someone who cannot visualise imagery. podcast.rlf.org.uk/485-alex-wong-…

A year ago today, I met legendary Togolese explorer Tété-Michel Kpomassie in person for the first time. This summer, I am travelling to Greenland with him. Life really is extraordinary

"To write stories is to be distrustful. To read is to engage with the story. Every story tells of a ghost. At the end, the centre of the story is a Black Hole, but it isn’t black, and it isn’t dark. In the best case, it might gleam." Judith Hermann, tr. Katy Derbyshire

Honoured to have an essay in this collection, published today in the UK, alongside work by such household names as Michael Morpurgo, Madeleine Thien, William Boyd and Nikesh Shukla. Many of my most powerful exchanges about books have involved messages from young people.