Yay! Happy book birthday to me! Gargoyles 2, The Watcher, is out in bookshops today. Thrills, adventure and ancient magic coming your way ✨️📚💚 Thanks again to the whole team @publishinguclan and to David Dean Illustration for the spectacular covers

Meta stole EVERY BOOK I’ve written to feed their Llama AI program. I’m joining with The Society of Authors today to demand #Meta pays for the work it stole. I call on the UK Government Sonia Kumar MP for Dudley 🌹 UK Parliament to support authors and uphold copyright. Please share! #MetaBookThieves

Piers Torday at today’s protest, on the importance of protecting copyright law in light of the Meta’s scraping of unlicensed works to train their AI systems. #MetaBookTheives #DoTheWriteThing

Our statement in response to The Society of Authors' protest yesterday against Meta's unlicensed use of writers' copyrighted works to train AI #DoTheWriteThing #MakeItFair

I was horrified to find EVERY SINGLE ONE OF MY BOOKS had been plundered without my consent by the Meta AI book thieves. It's a violation & is wrong in every way. Please support us by signing this The Society of Authors petition and get them to #DoTheWriteThing! change.org/p/protect-auth…

Beautiful obituary by ⁦Julia eccleshare⁩ of Alex Wheatle, the ⁦Alex Wheatle⁩ Bard who wrote fiercely but with understanding, energy and humour - gone but never to be forgotten with his amazing legacy, thank you Alex xxxx theguardian.com/books/2025/apr…

Happy #NationalUnicornDay 2025. The unicorn has been a symbol of strength and dignity in Scotland for centuries. A group of unicorns is known as a blessing. If you have a unicorn photo, please share!

9 days old now, Blackbirds 🐦‍⬛ in my garden Co Durham

A pysanka is a Polish-Ukrainian #Easter egg, decorated with traditional folk designs using a wax-resist method #WomensArt

A reminder of a pretty etymology to brighten the day. The ‘daisy’ takes its name from the Old English ‘dæges ēage’, ‘day’s eye’, because it opens its petals at dawn, and closes them again at dusk.

Never fear.... Super Chough is here! 😀🐦

Always a special moment when your physical copy lands in your lap!! Thank you Chicken House The excitement never stops even 6!!!! Books in!! NAELI AND THE SECRET SONG publishes on 5th June!! If you wanted to preorder! It would make me v happy waterstones.com/book/naeli-and…

🧚 UNBOXING THE CHANGELING CHILD 🧚 Watch me struggle to open a box… Faerie silver scissors probably would have worked better. But just look at that absolutely beautiful book! Thank you, Pushkin Children's Books 💚 #TheChangelingChild cover art by Thy Bui 💚🧚💙

I am SO thrilled that Sawbones is read in schools! There are full SOW here on the TES site tes.com/teaching-resou…

Woohoo there's going to be a glorious hardback edition of #TheWoodWhereMagicGrows coming out in June. All the hardbacks will be signed by me! BUT if you’d also like me to write a dedication to someone you can order through the wonderful @nichecomicsbookshop by June 1st

[1] My new book #THIRST will be published by Pushkin Press on 11 Sept. It's a teen folk horror about a malevolent river worshipped for generations by the village of Maimsbury. I can't wait for you all to get swept away with Gorse and Faye. This gorgeous cover's by 🇺🇦 Natalie Smillie 🇺🇦. ->

In #FosterCareFortnight, we're revisiting this moment with the brilliant author Patrice Lawrence, who shares her own experience of the power books can have for children in foster care. Find out more about the difference sharing stories can make: booktrust.org.uk/resources/find… #FCF25

Happy#JosephineBakerDay!

My new novel is coming out in August! Gorgeous cover by Elise Carmichael.