Join us tomorrow (Sat 12th Oct) here at our beautiful Ambleside campus to find out more about our MA Literature, Romanticism, and the Lake District. The MA Programme Leader will be giving a talk about the course at 12.30pm. See link below for further details & to book a place🍂📚

Despite the biblical weather a great afternoon Berwick LitFest listening to Alistair Moffat. And couldn’t resist a new book. Warming up after a soaking with coffee and the lovely festival venue in sight. Ready for Katie Hale - novelist & poet 🌈 event tomorrow at Berwick Parish Centre.

Welcome to day 3 of our Autumn weekend! Today, we'll be exploring revolutionary history with Jonathan Healey (Jonathan Healey), enjoying the company of owls with Polly Atkin and diving into queer SFF with Inés G. Labarta! Book now: geni.us/LF24A

Great event Lancaster Litfest listening to Polly Atkin discussing The Company of Owls. Featuring a soft toy owl!

When someone says your book is one of the best they’ve ever read (!!) you have to share it!! Thank you Melissa! 🙏

Book twenty-three is Ian McEwan’s Atonement. Took a while but glad I have read it! Read for work but enjoyed it! #AmReading

I’ve got several degrees, a nice house, a beautiful wife. I’m most proud of the fact my air plant has flowered 😂

Book twenty-four of 2024 is a real privilege to have read. Katie Hale - novelist & poet 🌈 new manuscript, before it heads out into the world. And it’s beautiful, and haunting. #AmReading (in our half term holiday home.)

Little literary mini-break done. Brontë Parsonage Museum, plus book Edge of Solitude signing for Katie Hale - novelist & poet 🌈, plus Shibden Hall, Railway Children trains at Oakworth, and popped into @BookCornerHX plus a lot of reading!

Last night Katie Hale - novelist & poet 🌈 and I conducted “Horrible History” tours around the village to raise money for the local hospice. Safe to say we had a great night AND got some very odd looks in the local afterwards.

Halloween leftovers. Don’t waste your pumpkins chaps! (The seeds are exceptionally good!)

I genuinely misread GPS as GP's and my brain was doing all kinds of twists about the state of the NHS.

Book twenty-five was Robert Harris’ The Second Sleep. Loved the premise. Kept me engaged throughout. #AmReading

The same National Literacy Trust research shows that “Nearly twice as many children and young people who read comics in their free time told us that they enjoy reading compared with those who didn’t read comics in their free time (58.6% vs. 33.1%).” It is time to invest in comics/GNs.

Peak village tonight. Pub landlord setting off incredible fireworks to the absolute thrill and joy of all the kids, who spontaneously yelled “thank you” as the display finished. And then a pork roast and chips for a fiver.

I don’t know if it’s because I have listened in one giant catch up but I rather enjoyed the bonkers Scrooge story in #TheArchers alongside the inevitable emergence of George the hardened con

Book twenty-six of 2024 was largely read in the bath as I recovered from some sort of slipped disc. This is how you lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. Not my usual fare. Beautifully written but I’m not sure I got enough of the references!

Book twenty-seven of 2024 is the magnificent The Company of Owls by Polly Atkin with its stunning cast of Cumbrian wildlife. And wonderfully strange to remember almost all of the events playing out and then reading about them years later. #AmReading

Book twenty-eight of 2024. A very satisfying morning of research. Finally read the whole of Essex Cholmondeley’s biography of Charlotte Mason. What a woman! I think I’ve researched all the info elsewhere but it was still great. #AmReading