BOOK BIRTHDAY! JEKYLL & HYDE: CONSULTING DETECTIVES is a Gothic murder mystery that I absolutely loved writing… …and it has beautiful endpapers, embossed gold birdcage and a flickbook effect in the page corners. Maybe you’d like to buy a copy? timjmajor.com/jekyll-hyde-co…

My dad was in the same queue for auditions the day Uttam Kumar got his break. The only reason it happened is cos dad got thirsty and went for a cup of tea. By the time he got back, they’d cast Kumar. Otherwise dad would have been a legend and Kumar an accountant.

A beautiful woman, inside and out ♥️

On my way home after attending Lynda La Plante brilliant book launch at the BFI . Great to see Barry Forshaw #MaximJakubowski Fidelis Morgan Celia Imrie and briefly see Richard E. Grant and Twiggy LawsonDBE in the room as well.

Thanks Peter Levy for having me on BBC East Yorkshire last night! Talking libraries and books. TOMORROW #LightsOut is released and I’m launching Waterstones Trafalgar Sq. from 7pm. Do join me London folks! Any folks! Hodder Fiction DHH Literary Agency Kallie Townsend

#fromourbookshelves #OffTarget by Eve Smith tripfiction.com/life-in-a-gene… Life in a genetically manipulated near future #ENGLAND

Love this review by Tony of my thriller #OffTarget. "it poses the question of how technology will be controlled. This, I guess – & not just in the area of genetic engineering – is becoming a burning question. How do we control, for human good, what we are inventing?" How, indeed?

Cannot wait. Going to be a very special afternoon #BlessedBe #RoS #RobinofSherwood

Dive into Berlie Doherty https://www.facebook.com/BerlieDohe & Tamsin Rosewell’s magical, mysterious The Seamaiden’s Odyssey & you won’t want to come up for air until the last page has turned! uclan publishing Antonia Wilkinson pamnorfolkblog.blogspot.com Review also Lancashire Post later this week!

tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/lights-out-l…

Join me as Nicola Smith 〓〓 provides a super ghostly guest post to celebrate #13CornishGhostStories wp.me/p5IN3z-kLs

On Leadership by Tony Blair review – working to rule theguardian.com/books/article/…

Just three weeks to go until this fun-packed evening dedicated to all things #DavidBowie at London’s Royal Vauxhall Tavern. A Bowie pub quiz, a treasure trove of raffle prizes, and live music from Bowie alumni Eve Ferret and Kevin Armstrong. Tickets here: outsavvy.com/event/20800

This is the top notch choral podcast I mentioned this morning 👇

We lose the habit of reading because we’re afraid of wasting our time. We think we need to be preoccupied and productive at all times. But people are not machines, and you are nourished by naps and fiction and basking in sunlight, no less than by food and drink.

It’s out TODAY! In ebook, audiobook and hardback! And I’m heading off to that there London in a few hours to sign copies Goldsboro Books followed by a launch tonight at Waterstones Trafalgar Sq.. Looking forward to seeing those who are coming! I’ve even washed me hair!#LightsOut

There are days in politics that you are particularly proud of. Today is one of those, because we are debating the Great British Energy Bill in Parliament. This Government won a mandate for the first publicly-owned national energy company in 75 years. It will be owned by you

Women married to MAGA men, it’s ok to vote for Harris but tell your husband you voted for Trump. Chances are good it’s not the first thing you had to fake.

We are having a really lovely afternoon reading with Mrs Small Year 6 for ‘Read a Book Day’. We love sharing our joy of reading with others!

A 1970’s boyhood. A work in progress.