fyi, this weekend Waterstones is offering 25% off all online pre-orders

SURPRISE!!! Get 25% off thousands of upcoming books from now until midnight on Monday when you use the code PREORDER25 🤩 Shop here: waterstones.com/campaign/25-of…

Today’s #1000postcards isn’t a Postcard at all in the real sense but is in fact a large watercolour of various flowers found growing out of the grass behind the house at the moment . A sprig of Ivy berries added for the blackbirds and thrushes. Snowdrops Primrose narcissus

Happy World Book Day from everyone at EmpathyLab! 📚⭐ World Book Day UK 📚 are asking you to think about how you read your way. Two of our team have put together some reading recommendations showing how they enjoy reading for empathy with books from the 2025 collection [CONT. THREAD]

First bird of my day: well the blackbirds have it! Woke at 5.30am, walked to the back of the house and opened the window to be hit with a wall of song. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review for the garden orchestra! #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours

Our highly-illustrated book 'Adventuremice: Mice, Camera, Action!', the sixth in the series, is out now, available at all good bookshops! Visit Adventuremice.com for free, all-age drawing activities, author interviews and readings!🐭✍️📚⚓️ Philip Reeve David Fickling Books

LOOK WHO’S BACK! back on dry land again, we’ve just woke to the sight of Puffins back on the Isle of May.

Because I’m so mightily chuffed about this, I’d like to give a signed copy to a child you think would enjoy ‘Jakub’s Otter’ as a holiday read. Just LIKE and REPOST if you’d like your name to go in the hat. I’ll announce winner this Friday, 6pm, and get a copy in the post.

It’s my birthday, and I’m going to give away one of the four copies I currently have of The Woman Who Met Herself. Want to read it a month early? Follow, retweet and comment on this post. UK only. Closes on Friday (25th).

“The government’s planning and infrastructure bill is the worst assault on England’s ecosystems in living memory. It erases decades of environmental protections, including legislation we inherited from the EU, which even the Tories promised to uphold.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

💛 GIVEAWAY! 💛 To celebrate the publication of #IDareYou we are giving away a bundle of books by Tamsin Winter to one of our lovely followers. To enter simply: - FOLLOW Usborne Publishing - LIKE this post - RWEET

Please keep bidding in the #BookmarkProject auction, we are a long way off of last year's goal of raising £15,000 for Katiyo Primary School in Zimbabwe. Please bid here: jumblebee.co.uk/bookmarkprojec… Please Share Craig Revel Horwood Richard Osman Michael Ball OBE💙 chris riddell

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… hugely honoured to get a lovely write up for Garden Safari on the BBC signed copies for £26 including postage message me. BBC Springwatch Iolo Williams Chris Packham RSPB OM SYSTEM Cameras Graffeg

💛 GIVEAWAY! 💛 To celebrate the publication of #PiasPetClub we are giving away a set of Serena Patel's previous series #AnishaAccidentalDetective to one of our lovely followers. To enter simply: - FOLLOW Usborne Publishing - LIKE this post - RWEET

Stunning book by Andrew Fusek Peters arrived today. Thank you. Beautiful photos and great information - highly recommended.

There is only one thing better than a dress with pockets... The Dress With 100 Pockets!

More #buyastrangerabook day magic! Loz is offering to buy two people the paperback of their choice. That's any paperback, not just what's on my website. So, if there's a particular book you're after, get in touch!

I’ve woken up even more furious as I process what #Labour has done. A 3 line whip to ensure swift bricks are blocked after promising to do it? What a betrayal. People power will work. Email me at [email protected] & you’ll get a template to amend & use

Giveaway! I’m giving one lucky person the chance to pick one shelf of books from our Bertvent bookcase. Follow and repost by midday on Saturday 27th and I’ll pick someone at random! Which shelf will you choose? (UK only)

2026 is the UK Year of Reading. The Dirigible Balloon is a place where there are over 2000 free poems for children written by over 500 excellent poets worldwide. Tell a friend. Ask them to spread the news. We're here >>> dirigibleballoon.org Come and look. #PoetryForChildren