There are some great books from @barringtonstoke.bsky.social this month. Here are my reviews of three of them by @lindsaygalvin.bsky.social
#VashtiHardy and @simonjamesgreen.bsky.social
All brilliant for different reasons! #UKKidLit
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Just a few of our authors' signings and events at fabulous independent bookshops this year!
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@booknookhove.bsky.social @welbooks.bsky.social @pierstorday.bsky.social @dansmithauthor.bsky.social @drakebookshop.bsky.social @booksaremybag.bsky.social (2/3)
Out now, The Elixir by @lindsaygalvin.bsky.social, illustrated by Kristina Kister, is a fabulous short middle grade read filled with magic and mystery, the plague and a young Isaac Newton! @barringtonstoke.bsky.social #KidlitUK #UKKidlit
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A graphic showing the cover of LOKI: A Bad God's Guide to Cauasing Chaos. It's yellow and, if you squint, shows Freyja, who we first met in the Loki World Book Day Book, Tales of a Bad God. We also see a very angry horned Hyrrokkin, a cat fighting a dog, and some random ocean creatures. Oh and Loki as a bat. I can't remember if he turns into a bat in the book I think i just thought it looked cool. Maybe I should add him as a bat, there's still time...
I have a brand new Loki out TOMORROW. But in the meantime, please feast your eyes on the cover of LOKI: A Bad God's Guide to Causing Chaos, coming early SEPT... #BeLEssLoki #KidLitUK @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social Preorder NOW www.walker.co.uk/978152951581... or www.pagesofhackney.co.uk/webshop/prod...
I remember it being unpleasant & a lot less fudge-y.
So lovely! 😍
I just have to share this *author on tour* hotel pic on all platforms...
Don’t underestimate the insane amount of hard work that goes into this. All power to children’s authors. 🤩✌️
A reminder for these times.
#bookpost How lucky am I? Can't wait to read Rebel Heart by Ally Sherlock and The Last Wildcat by Lui Sit. Lui was my mentee through the @write-mentor.bsky.social summer programme a few years ago and I'm so excited to get back to this story in print 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Ah thank you lovely! And fur the heads up 🥰
Book cover for Darwin's Dragons with an illustration of a dragon on a shore with a clutch of four gold egss, and a ship on the sea in the distance.
It's Darwin Day. And I can I heartily recommend for all your evolving middlegrade adventure requirements, the rather brilliant Darwin's Dragons by @lindsaygalvin.bsky.social @chickenhousebooks.bsky.social ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Children's books are not a luxury. Libraries & librarians are not a luxury. The teachers who work so hard to inspire kids to read are not a luxury. If you cut or undermine or lose these things – #literacy will cease to be a basic human right, and will become a luxury, available only to a few.
Yes! So sweet 💕
Another excellent read! Loved this story. @lindsaygalvin.bsky.social
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The word is out, and ⚗️THE ELIXIR ⚗️ is almost ready...
Delighted to have my first book with @barringtonstoke.bsky.social announced in @thebookseller.bsky.social today. I can't wait to start talking about this one! Out June.
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Thanks Seema!
Wonderful news @lindsaygalvin.bsky.social 👏🏼😀🎉
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Just received a copy of the second Dungeon Runners book: Sky Battles! Out next month, with stunning illustrations from Joe Todd Stanton. You can pre-order it now, if you want to be my best friend
Wow Louie! Looks fabulous 🤩
Graphic with orange background branded #BeLessLoki and Walker Books (with their bear logo graffiti'd with horns) showing the cover of LOKI: A Bad God's Guide to Unrualy activities - 50 puzzles, games and quizzes. It has lots of doodles on the cover including Loki with his spiky black hair, a horse, a clock, a dice and a party hat. Oh and a poo. Several poos in fact.
Graphic with orange background branded #BeLessLoki and Walker Books (with their bear logo graffiti'd with horns) showing a sample spread where you have to spot a hammer in a collection of hammers.
Graphic with orange background branded #BeLessLoki and Walker Books (with their bear logo graffiti'd with horns) showing a sample page called Looki for Loki where loki is shown as dozens of animals, objects and a garden gnome.
Another sample page against the same orange background showing Thor's mightiest wordsearch and a wordsearch called A seat at the feast.
I have news that I am not sure if I have shared here! A new Loki book on March 20th! It's a book of short stories and Loki-themed activities and it features Loki shape shifting into many glorious creatures.... For the more orderly games, loki had help lokibooks.com/books/loki-a... #KidlitUK
Thanks to @lindsaygalvin.bsky.social for highlighting this - fascinating discussion about the role of AI in crime both now and the future. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Chapter 8 Rusting Robot I remember how I used to be. On the tennis court, there were days when I could see through time. It happened most often when things got really heated. Something inside me would align. The tennis term for this heightened state of being is "treeing." It is when you are playing out of your mind, when you can do no wrong, when you can make the universe yield to your every whim. I know it sounds intense, because it is. When I treed, sometimes I could predict the future. Not that far, about one second. I'd know exactly where my opponent was going to hit the ball because I'd see it happen right before it did. It was just enough time to make use of the knowledge. Even before I began to write science fiction, though I didn't know it, I was sci-fi. In those moments, my athleticism really was a superpower. Now, when I write about characters with abilities, the gift of flight, time travel, shape-shifting, I draw from my own experiences as an incredible athlete. And for these characters' conflicts and limitations within the narrative, I draw from my experiences with and recovering from paralysis.
Rusted Robots (the second cover of DEATH OF THE AUTHOR)
A page from BROKEN PLACES AND OUTER SPACES (TED Books, 2019) and the inner cover of DEATH OF THE AUTHOR (HarperCollins, Jan 14, 2025). 🤖
This novel (DEATH OF THE AUTHOR) has been a long time coming.
Love! Mine:
1) choose event/era I can geek on
2) Add MC trying to do something
3) Problem prevents them doing it
4) MC meets animal/friends who help/hinder (antics!)
5) MC tries to solve 3) but badly = worse problems
6) repeat 5)
7) MC solves 3) in a way they would never have thought of at 2)
This made my day 🔥🔥🔥 anyone needed to get warmed up - check out my phoenix 😊
So delighted you loved phoenix! Thank you
Please, if you're able, support Independent bookshops in the run up to Christmas.
Their curation and knowledge will help you choose books that no algorithm can.
And algorithms don't smile and chat to you either.
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Thanks Penny 😊
At this point it’s been said in a hundred different ways, so I think people are being intentional about not getting it.
