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Looking forward to being a guest on BBCSaturday Live this morning, hosted by Jon Kay ☕️ who I last saw at Buckingham Palace chairing #BBC500words 😀

Loved appearing on BBCSaturday Live this morning. Great guests and conversation google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t…

Just FYI for anyone wondering about Joe Biden's prostate cancer diagnosis: 1)he didn't have to release the information 2) Prostate cancer is easily missed 3) Trump, the current president, never releases his detailed medical information.

Lovely to see Salka crossing over to YA ⁦Children's Bookshop⁩ ⁦Faber Books⁩

Learn what every parent should know about the The Reading Rights Report, Spring 2025. Let’s work together to protect and promote every child’s right to read – because reading isn’t just a skill. It’s a joy, and a right that every child deserves. Read more: lovereading4kids.co.uk/blog/we-need-t…

Lovely reviews of my new novel, Salka, from Foyles Bookshop Thank you, booksellers! foyles.co.uk/reviews/salka/…

READING FOR PLEASURE has the biggest positive impact of any factor on children's life chances. So whatever else you do - please never stop reading books with kids & encouraging them to read. Never stop helping them find books to read & love. Never stop changing lives. #literacy

A WEEK until the deadline for the Martha Mills Young Writers' Prize. Open to 11-14 year olds in the UK. Great prizes & Frank Cottrell-Boyce as judge. Tell your budding teenage writer friends...

The Britsh-Egyptian human rights activist and writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah is being illegally detained by the Egyptian government, an independent UN panel has found after an 18-month investigation. trib.al/qGoj3TW

#Salka in #Listowel for the gorgeous literary festival!

Germany’s Chancellor Merz presented Trump the birth certificate of his German grandfather, Friedrich Trump. It was a clever jab to remind Trump he’s a German immigrant.

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Lovely review of Salka, my new novel for adults!! Many thanks "Prose on the cusp of poetry" - SALKA: Lady of the Lake by Francesca Simon bookmunch.wordpress.com/2025/06/06/pro…

The largest ever survey from the National Literacy Trust (National Literacy Trust) has shown that young people’s reading enjoyment and daily reading frequency have fallen to their lowest levels since the charity began tracking them 20 years ago 👇 thebookseller.com/news/nlt-surve…

My new song cycle premieres Britten Pears Arts and Ryedale Festival and I wrote about it for the Guardian, a love letter to the North! see you at the concerts! Chris Glynn Tamsin Waley-Cohen Royal Northern College of Music David Butcher BBC Philharmonic Orchestra Manchester Camerata Baroness Keeley of Worsley (also on BlueSky) theguardian.com/music/2025/jun…

I lived in my school library. And then my local library and my bigger town library. Every child deserves to attend a school with a library and qualified librarian.

RETWEET to honor the life of Rep. Melissa Hortman! 💙

So good to see so many peaceful protests across the USA on #NoKingsDay

Video of Trump backing out of the Iran Deal in 2018. The deal would have allowed inspections to ensure that Iran wouldn’t develop nuclear weapons.