📢Welcome back Campers to a fourth year of CAMP YA! On the 27th of September we're bringing you new panels, authors, events and the battle of the beasts: the CAMP YA Cup. As you're used to from us you'll be able to watch the stream online from all over the world!

I’M SPEAKING AT Edinburgh International Book Festival THIS SUMMER! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 4pm Monday 11th August. Tickets: edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/w… (the photo of me introducing my daughter to a sheep has nothing to do with anything - just needed a photo to make the spacing work over on instagram)

It's #windrushday2025 and Spirit Warriors is dedicated to each of my grandparents, because it's their book too, in more ways than one. I may have dreamed of becoming a published author, but only because they were the first to dream big.

Being a working class child that gets into Oxbridge and makes “connections” that they can use to ascend to middle class status when they graduate

Remember Jonathan Franzen? What was that all about?

I’m writing a book. It doesn’t get any easier with practice…

Best question in the signing queue yesterday at Barnes BarnesKidsLitFest from a girl of about ten. “Where are your shoes from? I hate them!”

It's my US pub day for LOKI 4! Loki must face a deadly elven foe and confront what being mortal really means (☠️☠️☠️). Get it from a lovely indie like Anderson's Book Shop My wife worked there as a teenager, it's ace! Candlewick Press andersonsbookshop.com/book/978153624…

The eagle eyed among you may notice that Vinir's outfit was inspired by a certain Jareth...

🤩 to share cover of my new WWII book #UnderFire 🕵️‍♂️🚢 with supporting quote from Tom Palmer From Coventry to Calcutta ...Hasan is evacuated to his grandfather but British India is not where he expected to find: 1. A secret spy agency 2.Allied soldiers fighting Japan 3. A

UK Teachers! I will be doing a class set giveaway of Loki book 1 next week. Sign up to my newsletter here to be in the running.... louiestowell.substack.com

When you want to watch Kneecap.

There needs to be a legal upper temperature limit we’re allowed to work to because tomorrow is gonna be horrific 🥵 not ready for the battle with the kids!

Big news! 2026 has officially been announced as the National Year of Reading by Bridget Phillipson. We’re proud to join Department for Education to lead this national campaign to get the UK reading again. #NationalYearOfReading2026 nationalyearofreading.org.uk

“Go with what the children want.” Next year will see a 'reading revolution', according to the National Literacy Trust, declaring 2026 a 'year of reading'. Children's author Michael Rosen tells #R4Today how he thinks we can get kids to pick up a book.

An ALT text version of the National Year of Reading overview ⤵️. 2026 will be a year of changing reading culture for good. All genres of books and reading formats are valid. We can't wait to get started! 📚💖

Good news re the National Year of Reading 2026! ⭐️ Department for Education and National Literacy Trust - ⭐️ Reading connects us all - looking forward to it! ⭐️⭐️ ⭐️⭐️ ⭐️⭐️

📚 English leads A MUST READ 2025 #WhatKidsAreReading report Link here 👉 renaissance.widen.net/s/xgvpsnhd9q/w… 1. The more they read…the more they like it Only 1 in 5 kids read daily for pleasure. Timetable time. Protect it. Talk about books. Let them choose. 2. Walliams isn’t enough He

Ta-da! My new book, The Notwitches: Prison Break, is out NOW! Huge thanks to all at Chicken House, Dotty Sutton for her brilliant artwork and my wonderful agent Rachel Mann. And of course big thanks to everyone who buys it, which you can do here: garypanton.co.uk/books/

Some Loki news: I'll be at The Paper Cat Children’s Bookshop to do school events on sept 16th and, while there, will be signing/personalising/doodling/stamping etc copies of Loki book 5. If you would like one of these, order here! papercatbookshop.co.uk/products/loki-… Walker Books