Yesterday's reading on Day 1 of my Christmas break: The Woman from Book Club by Carrie Hughes Online chat incoming later this week 💜📚💜

Who can resist a bookshop

Welcome to book club. The 1st rule of book club is, we don’t talk about how many new books we just bought.

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On Day 2 of my Christmas break, I met Santa. You can't top that 🎅🏼 #Volunteer #VoluntaryWork

We shared books at The Addy yesterday in their home ed session 💜📚🎅🏼💜

Winter is pinker than you'd expect:

You CAN do it. You WILL get through it. #YouCanDoIt #YouWillGetThroughIt

Day 3 of my Christmas break and I'm waiting for my mum at the airport. Family rocks 🎅🏼 I hope no one thinks I plan to murder my husband ...

Paperbacks for daily reading. Hardcovers for the books you just can't wait for. E-readers for having your entire library at your fingertips. Audiobooks for when your mind is free while your body is busy.

The Woman from Bookclub is at the airport! I hope she's been frisked for weapons 🗡️

"Don't judge a book by its cover" is a beautiful, powerful sentiment that I fully ignore when book shopping.

"Books only have two smells. The smell of a new book, which is good, and the smell of an old book, which is even better." Ray Bradbury Good night

It seems like some of you were not aware of the names of the 12 best ever ever children's books about Christmas. Here they are. Wild that two of them were written by residents of The Island of Brilliant (population: 3) inews.co.uk/culture/books/…

Funny Books for Children that Weren’t Written by David Walliams. Please add your suggestions to this thread. I’ll start: Sputnik’s Guide to Life on Earth - by Frank Cottrell Boyce. Fabulously funny but also thought-provoking. It’ll make kids look at their world in a new way.

To end our chilling countdown to Christmas, we have five copies of Mark Edwards’ twisty festive thriller The Christmas Magpie! To be in with a chance, follow us and Penguin Michael Joseph, leave a comment below, and retweet. (Closes 12pm 23 Dec. UK only)

#Orkney. 20th December. Sunrise 9.03am Sunset 3.15pm Tomorrow is the #WinterSolstice. In 2 days the sunset will be a minute later than today. In 2 months it will be 2 hours later. By June we'll have 18 and a half hours of daylight in #Orkney. 💡

Raymond Briggs

They say books aren't real but how do I explain to them that I've felt more alive in imaginary worlds than I ever did in reality.