Takings down 75% on last week due to flooding! Not what what any business needs at this time of year. If you fancy a book it’s book-ish.co.uk Please support your indie businesses locally if you’re able, especially in flood hit areas!

If you’re looking for brilliant books please head to the wonderful Book-ish 📚 shop or website. They are fantastic 💛📚💛 book-ish.co.uk/shop/ #books #booktwt #BookTwitter

In book terms, we need to sell 54 more paperbacks to make up today’s shortfall caused by the flooding locally. book-ish.co.uk

liam cunningham Media outlets in South Africa revealed the arrival of a chartered plane carrying 153 Palestinians, most of them from the Gaza Strip, to OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, on a journey described as mysterious and suspicious. The plane arrived from Kenya, and after

I went to see for myself Southern Water's toxic plastic beads clean up operation and guess what, is a sham. 6 days ago John Penicud from SW told BBC Radio 4 PM Evan Davis "I'm at the beach at the moment and we've got around 70% of those beads now fully cleaned up". This is what SW's clean

Good morning to everyone in the general publishing sphere inc agents, freelancers, editors especially. Would there be any interest in me doing a thread about how best to give writers editorial notes, in a soft, collegiate way? Based on the experiences of a LOT of writers I’ve

"Yorkshire Water was privatised in 1989 under the Water Act, launched debt-free and promoted as the start of a new, efficient era. Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt...." yorkshirebylines.co.uk/region/yorkshi…

"This entire saga has a smell hanging over it. The people of Teesside, Hartlepool and Darlington are no fools. That smell will not go away until there is a full, transparent and independent inquiry." northeastbylines.co.uk/region/teessid…

A friend just messaged to say his Mum has been moved to a side room, that it isn’t long now. A woman who longed for children & had her only son late in life. Brought up by the sisters of Narazeth, she was so kind to everyone she met. Today’s poem from Traces by Jackie Lynam

This has to be cake of the month From the publisher that brought us "Leonard and Hungry Paul' on BBC- watch it for heartwarming humour ❤️☘️

My ten cents worth on ten years of fuckery with Robbie Gibb from my time as editor of Channel 4 News to trying to get BBC News (UK) to broadcast our film on Gaza, through No 10, Brexit and Israel the self appointed defender of impartiality, who has utterly destroyed it.

The continuing efforts of local river guardians to investigate the Cherwell waste dump are really highlighting the utter incompetence of Environment Agency & their failure to uphold the law. It now appears that complaints about the rubbish were made by local people as far back as May &

20 years ago today Heth and I remortgaged our house and Incorporated Bluemoose Books as a publishing company. Many thanks to the wonderful librarians, booksellers, reviewers and readers who've promoted and hand sold our books. Magic! The Bookseller The Times and The Sunday Times

"At least 15 English sewage plants use plastic beads spilled at Camber Sands." So @Southernwater's toxic plastic bead pollution now extends from Eastbourne all the way to at least Folkestone, that's about 50 miles of coast. Polluted by something introduced 34 years ago as a

A tiny 2% tax on wealth above £10m, is a drop in the ocean for just 20k Brits - but would raise £24Bn with which we could do so much. Rachel Reeves needs to be brave, understand the people want this - even millionaires want this and there’s nothing to fear. If we think there is

A great British success story. Many congratulations.

One million views of this clip. There are so many people who know the Labour Government have crossed another red line. We are compassionate, human & caring. Pitting communities against people seeking asylum is a distraction from taxing the super rich. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Amid all the noise and conflicting news, here’s a piece of good news I want to share, and you are part of it. Today, our clinic signed an agreement with Doctors Without Borders – France MSF International who will now provide nurses and full wound care supplies two days a week inside our

And while Black Friday Week might be starting over on Amazon I’ll be celebrating #BlueWednesday week where you can buy my books full price from brilliant indie publishers. Bearded Badger Books Renard Press Support #IndiePublishing

Doesn’t this look grand. Orca and Bird by Anna Chilvers Publishing and launching at Hebden Bridge Library Wednesday 26th at 7pm. The Bookseller Guardian Books