An uplifting, humorous memoir of a mother building a new life on a beautiful Sicilian island - make Children of the Volcano by Fernando Ros.belford your next summer read! Order here: linktree.com/childrenofthev…

Happy publication day to the Spring Street series - 20 design-led books for babies and toddlers encouraging exploration, motor skills, and shared learning designed by illustrators Owen Davey, @lo_cole and pintachan! Check them out here: shorturl.at/1rE3m

Not wishing to disturb your holiday idyll Celia Richardson but the language police (writing from Spain, no less) are on the National Trust's case. I suppose it makes a change from all that "you're teaching the wrong history" stuff. spectator.co.uk/article/the-na…

Thanks to everyone for your kind comments about what the shop has meant to you. Us booksellers are devastated by the situation. We can't go into the details of the closure at the moment, but sadly it isn't something we can crowdfund our way out of.

One of the things about being a hellishly busy small press is that you often forget your own birthday. Anyway - as of 24th August, 2024 - happy 12th birthday to us! (Three links to our latest titles to follow, in the hopes that some of you might like to buy a lovely book, or

It's been a wonderful few months settling in at Random House Children's Books & we're now ready to hire an editorial assistant! If you love children's books, genre fiction, and pop culture, check out details below! People of Color in Publishing Latinx in Publishing Disability in Publishing jobsearch.createyourowncareer.com/PRH_US/job/New…

Hello publishers 🙋🏻‍♀️ We’re putting together our end-of-year “literary non-fiction” list, the category for book lovers. What author memoirs, literary biographies or literary studies have you published this year that we should be thinking about? Thank you!

helen warlow Stan Collins I ❤️all of Dylan Thomas' writings❣️ "A Child's Christmas in Wales" read, exquisitely, by the late "Prince of Players", Richard Burton: youtu.be/SDdEvkQf9ko?si…

Railway Posters. Always popular. These four are good examples Annoyingly the illustrator is not mentioned except for number four ‘Chester’ by Stanley Roy Badmin (1906-89) with thanks to Helen Helen Day .

one of those poems that can make me weep or make me smile, depending.

Good mornin', winter, in the churchyard's glow, Frost-kissed graves in quiet rows. Snowflakes dance where whispers pray, Christmas nears, a holy day. Bells will ring, their silver chime, Echo love in Christmastime. Peaceful, soft and bright, Winter's morn, a sacred light.

To grow food, we need nature. The UK Government must increase investment in nature friendly farming. #NatureCantWait Sign and share the petition. action.rspb.org.uk/page/156168/pe…

From the brilliant Matt Goodfellow comes The First Year, a compassionate verse novel sequel to the acclaimed The Final Year which finds Nate starting secondary school with new challenges, new friendships & dramas. Illustrated by the great @Joetoddstanton: waterstones.com/book/the-first…

PRODUCT RECALL: First Baby Days: Bath Time, Bath Book, ISBN-13: 9781526381354 We have been made aware of a fault with a specific batch of this product. Please see further information below or visit geni.us/ProductRecall

I'm recovering from a breakdown at the moment and trying to get back on my feet with my workshops and Etsy. If you could maybe RT my new creative & mental health workshop (previous few tweets today, Friday 25th) it would help so much to show it to a few more eyes. I'd really

UK-wide initiative launched to tackle marginalisation of working-class writers | Publishing | The Guardian theguardian.com/books/2025/may…

Your semi-regular reminder that reading should be fun and that there's actually no pressure or rules that say what you should read, how quickly you should read it, or that you should slog your way through a book you don't enjoy! - Michael

Interested in hearing from authors and editors of fiction/novels exploring AI; with AI as a central theme / plot point - for The Bookseller 👏📧📩

Join us on Tuesday 3rd June for our Scriptwriters Group online social. This free, evening event is a chance for Society of Authors’ Scriptwriters Group (SWG) members to meet their committee informally, and to chat with other SWG members. 🧵

A National Year of Reading will take place in 2026 aimed at curtailing the reading crisis among children and young people 👇 ebx.sh/OH8vxh