🚨 BREAKING: The UK government is suspending some arms sales to the Government of Israel. UK arms must play no part in this war on children.

Getting boys reading and being excited about books is so important - love it when schools/librarians understand that.

Please make the unnerving experience of encountering my face on a pinboard in Sainsbury’s worthwhile by joining lovely Annie Lyons and I next Tuesday from 10.30-11.30am at Chislehurst Library. We’ll be talking all things bookish and would love to see you there.  #authorevent

Calling all #Bradford artists. The UK's most beautiful #Waterstones Waterstones Bradford Wool Exchange need you to do a #Banksy for them. So sad to see they've been broken into but would be great if community could provide some help.

The Grenfell tragedy is about power - those who have it and those who don’t. Those who are given the benefit of the doubt and those who are ignored. Those believed and those not.

Thinking of those who died, the survivors and all those who lost loved ones at Grenfell today. As with every scandal in recent times, it was not the people who suffered who caused it. Those in power need to be held to account & ordinary people's concerns listened to and acted on.

The previous government delighted in 'cutting red tape' which protected people and doing away with experts while their friends profited. We see it today in the Grenfell report & we'll see it again in the Covid inquiry. They must be held to account.

Applications for the BBC Writers Open Call opportunity will open from 12 noon on Tuesday 5th November 2024 until 12 noon on Tuesday 3rd December 2024. Time to get polishing those scripts!   You can find the terms and conditions of entry on our website, and make sure to have a

If there was anything else killing women in the numbers that male violence is killing women globally I’m sure we’d have called an international emergency by now - cobra meetings, UN resolutions - the lot. But as it is, we keep reporting headlines like this like it’s normal.

Happy publication day Louise Beech/Louise Swanson hope #LightsOut finds lots of wonderful readers! X

Happy publication say Lissa Evans hope Small Bomb at Dimperley finds lots of wonderful readers!

Happy publication day Carryl Church hope it finds lots of wonderful readers!

Happy publication day Mary Grand hope #AChristmasMurder finds lots of wonderful readers!

Happy publication day Jane Costello hope It's Getting Hot In Here finds lots of wonderful readers!

Happy publication day Piers Torday hope Midnight Treasure finds lots of wonderful young readers!

This is what an English department should look like!

A Bank of Creativity which gives loans to creatives in the North sounds like a much needed idea. Great to have northern leaders supporting the arts Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire

This.

I wrote In Little Stars after a friend and her young son were horrifically racially abused on a train. Six years on it's still happening. And too many people remain silent or try to justify it as 'banter'. Time for a zero tolerance policy from train operators and British Transport Police

Birmingham book lovers - this will be great!