✨The Brontë Festival of Women’s Writing is back from Friday 20 - Sunday 22 September!✨ We're celebrating children's and YA literature, with a fantastic line up of speakers, including bestselling author Dame Jacqueline Wilson! See what's in store: bronte.org.uk/whats-on/1451/…

Our popular Life Drawing Lates sessions return to Salford Museum & Art Gallery later this month with a shadow and light theme! Join animator/illustrator @paulpickford7 on 18th Sept and explore how to successfully apply shading effects to figure drawing. Book here 👉buff.ly/4e6d40a

"She laughed at this decline in her ambition; she no longer expected the advent of the colossal figure of her young dreams; and she knew this was the hour when she ought to strike out a new way for herself, to leave this place which offered her nothing..." jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2024/09/08/the…

🎉 It’s here!! CfP for the Fourth #AnneLister Society Mtg, 4-5 Apr 2025 in Halifax. Please RT! We seek proposals from scholars & researchers on any topic concerning our #YorkshirePolymath, from her life & times to her afterlives. 🖤 Details: english.northwestern.edu/about/anne-lis… (📸 BBC/HBO)

The BBC mention The 'Picturing Eccles' exhibition - currently on display at Eccles Library until 19 October. Celebrating Eccles' life and culture through photography, photographer Paula Keenan worked with residents to capture the town's diversity. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

We are delighted to share our New Writing from Ireland 2024 catalogue, which showcases a selection of the finest Irish writing published each year. ✍️You can read it here: adobe.ly/3MDKoA7

Tim Brookes discusses the crisis of #endangered #WritingSystems and what we can do to protect them. Learn about the #EndangeredAlphabetsProject. youtu.be/asL5lKE0AZo 🗓️ #PolyglotConference Global 2024: Oct 10-13 online, Nov 5-8 in Malta. #LangTwt

✨ UK #KindleMonthlyDeal 📚 Did someone ask for #TranslatedFiction recommended reads?! We got you, and they're only 99p each: bit.ly/3z3AunZ For the WHOLE of #September, these four brilliant and unforgettable reads are ALL only #99p each! #Translations #Translated

📚 Exciting News for Schools & Libraries! 📚 Expand your collection with over 5k+ Scholastic #ebooks. More checkouts at a lower cost! Plus, enjoy 50% off Children’s Bilingual Boks and 30% off Storyshares titles through Sept.! bit.ly/4e8Ok7E

I had plans to have a further crack at short story competitions and there was a deadline for a big one, just now. I dithered, then decided I would spend the entry money on Snag tights in slate grey. These are boss & slate grey is a versatile colour which does well with everything

Big Orenda news: Two of our bestselling authors are collaborating on a tremendous new crime series. I promise you, SON is everything you'd expect, and more!

People we’ve got news!!! Thomas Enger Karen Sullivan 🇺🇦 thebookseller.com/rights/orenda-…

Who is going to Bloody Scotland? If you see me around please stop and say hello and if you are on your own or it is your first time there and you feel lost drop me a DM. I am here to help. #Bloodyscotland

Hope to discover new authors and meet new readers. #Bookevent #BookTwitter

On Friday, September 22, 2024 #WindhamCampbellPrizes recipient m. nourbeSe philip and Jonathan Howard, Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at Yale University, dive into a ‘(sub)aquatic’ conversation. windhamcampbell.org/festival/event…

OUT NOW! 🔪 *QUEEN OF NEW ZEALAND CRIME* @VandaSymon's chilling, twisty NEW Sam Shephard #Mystery, #Prey! Fresh from mat leave, Sam investigates the 25-year-old cold case of a murdered priest…🔪 📲bit.ly/3WMVOGi 📚bit.ly/3yLpDz0 #CrimeFiction #NZ

#shortstories time and this is a really good one. Enjoy! Free Ride margot-kin-berg.com/2024/09/12/fre… via @margotkinberg

Living is a Problem (No6 in The Skelf series) by Doug Johnstone #SkelfSummer #LivingIsAProblem #Shelfaholic #TheSkelfs Karen Sullivan 🇺🇦 lovebooksreadbooks.com/2024/09/13/liv… via J - LoveBooksReadBooks

Book industry friends! Are there any of us still left on this platform? Yes there are, I see you. Why are you staying and are you thinking of leaving/ what other platforms would you go to instead? It’s for a piece for The Bookseller DMs open #journorequest #BookTwitter 📚

All set up at the Multicultural Book Fair Conway Hall - 50 publishers, tons of fab books, free - but you’ll leave with a bag of books! Here till 4, so come on down!