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Hello, books. (Signed and in Gay's The Word waiting for you!)

Thrilled to share today's blog post, an interview with wonderful Piu DasGupta 🐍💎 🧡🐍🧡 goldenbooksgirl.wordpress.com/2024/06/05/aut…

It's publication day for our murder mystery book! Happy book birthday to The Super Sunny Murder Club. 🕵‍♀️🔍🩸 Join the Murder Club for more sensational short stories as we lead you on a journey of foul play and murderously magnificent mysteries! Farshore

Out today 🎉 [Full thread about it incoming]

⭐️A love letter to the 1990s ⭐️A celebration of Black Britain ⭐️The love of MUSIC ⭐️Family fun The KOFI series is two books strong and I can’t WAIT to see what you make of it! KOFI and the Secret Radio Station out NOW! 🎶

It's been lovely going back through my creative engagement portfolio and my very first residency with ArtfulScribe SouthamptonLibraries for my keynote on libraries as oceans of creative possibility. Looking forward to hearing from Jeffrey Boakye and Sharna Jackson isn’t here anymore. too!

I could listen to Jeffrey Boakye ALL DAY. What a call to action. A fierce, rousing call for equity, literacy, the humanities. "Reading IS social justice". Wow. National Literacy Trust Penguin Books UK British Library Learning #inclusivelibraries

2nd keynote of the day with Dr Nazneen Ahmed Pathak author of the wonderful City of Stolen Magic at National Literacy Trust Penguin Books UK Lit in Colour & British Library Learning #InclusiveLibraries Conference reflecting on libraries & melancholic Indian music. 📚Supported by Arts Council England #LotterySupported

Dr Nazneen Ahmed Pathak is speaking on libraries as spaces of possibility at the #InclusiveLibraries conference - I couldn’t agree more! They should be spaces for everyone, the heart of our communities, a place we all feel at home Penguin Books UK National Literacy Trust

Such a rich and illuminating panel at #inclusivelibraries British Library Learning Penguin Books

Listening to Perminder Mann's keynote Sail Fest UK fills me with pride, joy and hope. A South Asian working class woman CEO of a major publishing house Bonnier Books UK! So passionate about making publishing a space of belonging, long- term. So important. #RepresentationMatters

@sailfest_uk publishing panel - such a frank, critical, incisive conversation taking place. This is what can happen when a space is genuinely safe. Thanks to the organisers for making it happen. #representationmatters #weneeddiversebooks British Library @childrensbookshoplondon

This morning I met Dr Nazneen Ahmed Pathak & wow what a ✨magical✨ human. “Libraries as Oceans of Creative Possibilities”: a love letter to libraries, resilience & opportunities for ALL. #CityOfStolenMagic should be on EVERY shelf. We need to be decolonising stories & creativity 🖤

Any suggestion that Birmingham's art should be sold to help the city council balance its books is for the birds. Arts & Culture is the lifeblood of Brum and the wider West Midlands. The sector needs protecting and growing, not sabotaging.

So looking forward to the #educatingsusan conference which is so crucially-needed and just kicking off. Thank you to creative powerhouses Farhana Shaikh 🍉 and Deepa Annapara for giving us this important space to share and reflect. #representationmatters ##weneeddiversebooks

Stunning paper and poem from Sonia Hunjan - on a project that hasn't even begun but already shifting narratives. Crucial, intersectional work being shared at #educatingsusan

Such a joyful, celebratory and magnetic end to ##educatingsusan by the incredible @stardiva. "Make new worlds. We are a community, a collective. How our gardens grow." Stunningly enriching day. Thank you everyone.

SO proud that #CityofStolenMagic is in an Oxford Primary KS3 book, alongside Floella Benjamin (such a key storytelling presence in my childhood) and Sharna Jackson isn’t here anymore. and Elle McNicoll ✍🏻📚🩷💜💙 AND 'My Girl and the City' by Sam Selvon. Teacher friends: please use! global.oup.com/education/prod…

Always thrilled to be platformed by library services. Even more so when it's your own county service! Borrowbox (and its regional equivalents) is such a fantastic service too - I've listened to so many audiobooks for free! I always recommend it to my students.

These beautiful editions of Puffin Books are out in August to mark Puffin's 85th birthday. I was so honoured to pen the foreword for Rick Riordan 's Percy Jackson, given it has introduced so many young readers to the spectacular possibilities of fantasy! #Puffin85 #PuffinBooks