Uncovering the strange era of 'scientific witch-hunting' in a book that challenges the old image of the Enlightenment as stemming from the split between science and magic. "Engagingly written" - Clive Prince pelicanist.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-ri… Amberley Publishing

Fun chatting with me ol’ mucker Rosanna Tennant yesterday about #F1 and my new #CharlesLeclerc biography. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

Dear poetry friends, can you help spread the word about our latest #callforsubmissions Tyger Tyger Magazine? We are looking for poems aimed at 7-11 year olds exploring the STEM subjects: tygertyger.net/submissions/ #opencall #submityourwork #submissionsopen #STEM #stem #STEMCommunity

Our #cat reminding me where the door is so I can serve her breakfast. #CatsOfTwitter #CatsOnTwitter

A fascinating Word of Mouth - with Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 & academic Michael Bond - on the vocabulary of fandom, from cosplay through to how football fans react to victory & defeat. A tribute, if nothing else, to the ever-tumbling acrobat that is the human mind. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

I’m presenting Pick of the Week on BBC Radio 4 next week so it’s time for a bit of listening and pondering and writing down In and Out timings in my notebook.

25 years of this great book, we have a few signed copies.

One of our favorites. Looking forward to the next one.

As many sleeps as Heinz UK & Ireland varieties.

Taking a nostalgic train ride with our riveting #NewBook British Rail Through the 1980sby Stephen Dance. With an array of superb photographs, Dance presents a fascinating overview of the railway scene in Britain in the 1980s. RAIL EXPRESS mvnt.us/m1429014  #Trains

Thank you @RogerMGwriter for coming in today to sign our copies of Across a Walking Land, Taking Stock and Shearwater Icon Books #signedbytheauthor #battersea #batterseabookshop

Spent the morning signing more copies of UPROAR! Thanks for having me Blackwell's Holborn

With all new images depicting this historic market town, our delightful #NewBook Bury St Edmunds Through Time Revisitedby Martyn Taylor is a riveting & well-illustrated account of the town's fascinating past. East Anglian Daily Times mvnt.us/m1428816  #BuryStEdmunds #Suffolk

The Cambridge to King's Lynn Line30 Years of Electrificationby Mike Beckett. A fantastic photographic record of the line’s many changes, the author has drawn on his own collection to produce this #NewBook RAIL EXPRESS mvnt.us/m1430160  #Trains #Cambridge #KingsLynn

This Victorian valentines card is just a beautiful piece of folk art. It pulls out to reveal a three dimensional scene of two young folk sitting together with a church in the background...

A #vauxhall moment, returning back from a work visit to The Sheen Bookshop. Why, btw, do I always see so many serious #cyclists in Sheen (as in dedicated, not grim)?

Nearly time to confront the exquisite dilemma of What To Read Next. Really enjoyed this impressive novel - so good for style, content and characterisation. Orion Publishing #Reading #novels

Great piece BBC News (UK) about Newham Libraries #SummerReadingChallenge. Well done all young people interviewed and sufiya ahmed . Keep reading.

Witches seem to have a rare familiarity and ease with the idea of death, but what does that look like in practice?

Done.