Forgot to get over-priced flowers or a tokenistic card for Valentine's Day? Just pop into your local bookshop and buy them a book instead - something chosen just for them - that means a whole lot more.

📢Hey everybody📢 Some great news Ian Moore - 'The Times' Bestselling Author is coming to the UK next week to embark on a tour to promote the paperback of Death at the Chateau🏰🚗 📅Out March 14th All the information below⤵️ Come along and get your copies signed✍️🥳

Liverpool’s demolition of Sparta Prague went down well in Royston Vasey

Garçons! Paris’s waiters battle it out in revived Course des Cafés theguardian.com/world/2024/mar…

so my Cricket Scotland shirt has arrived and boy is it a BEAUTY 😍 HOWEVER Gray-Nicolls have set me a challenge. They’ve said if I get 100 retweets on this tweet then they’ll send me the Cricket🏏Netherlands shirt to match the bucket hat! 🤩 Can we make it happen?! 👀

I can’t dispute this

And people have the nerve to say that cricket is boring #EngSvn

Rosen just half a yard offside, in a world where an untrimmed toenail can make all the difference #EngSvn

Sadly missing The Wonder of U

Blyth returning officer filling in before heading to the local Am Dram production of Mary Poppins

This game is crying out for Clive Tyldesley #NEDENG

Does he not like that! #NEDENG

And now over to 4Seven where Guy Martin is re-enacting a Lancaster bomber raid using a tractor

Happy International Left Handers Day to those that... celebrate.

Wise words from Sam Rayner of UCL about what bookshops bring us, and the real challenges inherent in running one - Bookshops are bucking the high street trend. There are lots of reasons why theconversation.com/bookshops-are-… via The Conversation

Buskins We popped next door to the tiny St Peter's to see the merman font and got a free masterclass of Orlando De Lassus motets from 3 singers from the Cambridge Early Music Consort. Absolutely breathtaking. They are there each Thursday

Many thanks to Quercus Books for this much anticipated proof. I was hoping for a copy but I didn’t expect my favourite cocktail and some everlasting ice! Elly Griffiths #TheFrozenPeople

We won a fabulous selection of French cheese thanks to Profile Books and their competition #CheesemongersTourdeFrance @CheeseTastingCo

Great win for Liverpool in the #UCL but the highlight was the bloke right behind the commentary box singing all the songs

RIP Brian Glanville, one of the great football writers. I was given this book on my ninth birthday and have read it again and again