Loved the book, The Haunted Wood, and discussing children’s authors processing their own trauma, what Winnie the Pooh owed to Alice in Wonderland, how it takes a generation to process a war, the darkness of Robert Cormier, and whether Mary Poppins was a grumpy piece of work …

12 book events this Sept inc ⁦Hatchards⁩ ⁦The Biographers' Club⁩ #ChiswickBkFest ⁦Buckingham Literary Festival⁩ ⁦Gloucester History Festival⁩ ⁦Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival⁩ ⁦⁦Brooklands Museum⁩ ⁦Chelsea Heritage Quarter⁩ ⁦Dublin Festival of History⁩ ⁦Trinity College Dublin⁩ Join me! claremulley.com/events/

Anne Sebba (left) and Clare Mulley were a dream team at @hatchardspiccadilly, where they discussed Mulley's gripping new book Agent Zo (W&N).

Doncaster Racecourse. It was nothing like this when I visited, one October, researching my book. I may have underrated it. #HorseRacing #Doncaster #coursesforhorses

I have been reading Graeme Macrae Burnet.

"It's peculiar to say that we grow out of pictures. If that were true, art galleries, the cinema and all other visual media would have had it long ago." From my piece about 3 sophisticated picturebooks in the new issue of @BooksforKeeps @greystonekids Neal Porter Matt Ottley

Lesley Downer launched The Shortest History of Japan ('a model of clarity and expertise') at Daunt Books in Marylebone. Pictured with old friends Robert Rigby (the Lord Mayor of Westminster) and his wife Emiko. Lesley Downer OldStreetPublishing #japanhistory

What We're Reading - 20 September 2024 Featuring Richard Osman (Penguin Books UK), Kate Summerscale (Bloomsbury Books UK), Rebecca F. Kuang (HarperCollinsUK) and Clive James (Picador Books)... bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-arti… (Free to view)

“Poetry of all kinds, but particularly free verse, is riding high in children’s books and stomping with its metrical feet through the book prizes.” My piece in today’s Sunday Times Times Books thetimes.com/culture/books/…

BookBrunch has news. bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-arti…

.Costanza Casati has won the Glass Bell Award (Goldsboro Books) for her debut novel Clytemnestra bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article-d… (£)

What We're Reading - 27 September 2024 Featuring mary beard (Profile Books), Joseph O'Connor (@HarvillSecker), Sandra Newman (Granta Books) and Virginia Bovell (Oneworld Publications)... bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-arti… (Free to view)

Authors! This will induce nods or winces of recognition.

Resharing Nikki Gamble’s interview with me about Writes of Passage: Words To Read Before You Turn 13. Because she is such a great interviewer. Just Imagine Nosy Crow m.youtube.com/watch?v=9SSmRz…

It’s #BookshopDay. This is my favourite local independent, ⁦Ink@84 Books & Drink⁩. Always a joy to visit. I’m lucky. Have you treated yourself to a purchase at yours this week? ⁦Highbury Community⁩ ⁦Books Are My Bag⁩ ⁦indybookshops⁩ #shoplocal

My piece in the Sunday Times today. Hallowe'en books for children that won't give them nightmares. #Halloween Times Books thetimes.com/article/7c8d0a…

Everything went, including several more boxes of books and another bucketload of sweets. #halloweenbooksgiveaway

"MUD, BLOOD and BOOZE: A remarkable crime trilogy of doublings and disappearance" - says Nicholas Clee in the Times Literary Supplement #ACaseofMatricide #thegorskitrilogy the-tls.co.uk/literature/fic…

Elizabeth Buccleuch Prize shortlist! Congratulations to Jane Anson, David Campbell, Penelope Jarvis, Harley Mitford, Mark Nayler, Alan Stewart. thebiographersclub.com/the-elizabeth-…

'The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth is a novel in which plot is mostly confined to the mind.' Nicholas Clee (Nicholas Clee): A designer of playgrounds wanders in search of divinity the-tls.co.uk/literature/fic…