We're delighted to announce the #IndieBookAwards 2025 shortlist. Championing the best paperbacks of the summer, the books are curated by independent bookshops as part of #IndieBookshopWeek (14 - 21 June). Find out more in the 🔗 in our bio. #ChooseBookshops 🧡

✨ Children's Fiction Shortlist ✨ • Finding Bear by Hannah Gold • Ghostlines by Katya Balen • Murder for Two by Niyla Farook • The Falling Boy by David Almond • Brielle and Bear: Once Upon a Time by Salomey Doku • Reek by Alastair Chisholm #IndieBookAwards

Me and little me at wonderful Pestext Book Festival Budapest.

My piece in this week's New Stateman. A special edition, edited by Gordon Brown, about childhood poverty in UK today.

Check out the shortlisted books for this year's #IndieBookAwards, the only awards curated exclusively by independent bookshops! Lots of fantastic books here from adult fiction & non-fiction to children's fiction & picture books. Order via this link! 👇 uk.bookshop.org/lists/indie-bo…

Lovely piece in which authors reflect on their younger selves, prompted by grainy colour & monochrome 😊Includes Malorie Blackman Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 David Almond OBE Bernardine Evaristo

How wonderful! Bone Music (El Canto del Bosque) has just won The Templis Award for best independent foreign novel. Transaleted by Marcelo E Mazzanti, published by Duomo.

How wonderful! Bone Music (El Canto del Bosque) has just won The Templis Award for best independent foreign novel. Transaleted by Marcelo E Mazzanti, published by Duomo. Hachette UK Hachette Children's Group Walker Books FBA

David Almond (David Almond OBE), ganador del Templi a Mejor novela extranjera independiente con El canto del bosque, nos envió un vídeo de agradecimiento desde el norte de Inglaterra. Congrats and thank you for your words! ❤️ #Templis2025

Latest News from Schools North East 📰 Acclaimed author David Almond inspires students at Alma Mater (@BCCET). Read the full story: ow.ly/yQar50WeAoM #edux #edutwitter #alumni

🌟🥳 Meet our new Fellows, nominated by their peers, they represent excellence in the teaching & learning of English, have an active role in the EA’s mission. Stay tuned, to find out the distinguished scholars & teachers awarded Fellowships this year! Here are some of them ⬇️🌟🥳

Congratulations, Julia! Such well deserved recognition xx

I’m at Hexham Book Festival Sunday 29 June, talking about my book PUPPET. Come along and discover the puppets that exist within us all. Walker Books FBA . hexhambookfestival.co.uk/event/davidalm…

Wonderful that Julia's beautiful 'Ettie and the Midnight Pool' is on the list for this important prize!

Happy paperback release to David Almond OBE's PUPPET, out with Walker Books What should a puppet master do when he’s old and alone, and all his puppets are gone? Sylvester makes one last puppet. But this one is different. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/puppet…

Thrilled to see this! Thank you, The Wainwright Prizes

🌟We're excited to share that Ettie and the Midnight Pool by Julia Green (illustrated by Pam Smy) has been SHORTLISTED for the 2025 Children's Wainwright Prize for Fiction!🌟 CONGRATULATIONS @jgreenauthor & @pamsmyillustrator 🎉 #WainwrightPrize #StoriesThatConnect