Thanks for all the support! Great to see as ⁦Amazon⁩ and ⁦Amazon.co.uk⁩ have been preventing the distribution of my latest book ⁦1804 Books⁩ for the last 6 months!!!

📣Calling all book people:
Please sign Fossil Free Books statement calling on Baillie Gifford, sponsor of many UK literary festivals, to divest from the fossil fuel industry & all companies involved in the Israeli occupation & genocide.

✍️Sign here: docs.google.com/document/d/1nu…

It felt like a risk to make Kòkú Àkànbí the title of my adventure fantasy series, but I knew it was important. I wanted Nigerian kids to see that a hero with a name like theirs could be the main hero in an EPIC fantasy! And this inmail I got proves it. 🇳🇬🔥

👀 The Boy to Beat the Gods is up on netgalley for reviews, if you'd like to request to join Kayode and co. as they take on the mighty Orishas ⚡️netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book/3…

A WEEK TODAY!

The Jhalak Prize celebrates books by writers of colour in Britain & Ireland and we’re absolutely thrilled to be hosting a very special shortlist event on Mon 20 May with 6 of the nominated authors. Tickets below and we’ll be highlighting their books over the week.

You can now request #TerraElectrica : The Guardians of the North by antonia maxwell on NetGalley! Book 1 in an action-packed #dystopian #adventure series set in the near-future post-melt #Arctic 🐻‍❄️

Publishing 4 July in UK & Europe and 22 October in US & RoW.

#kidlit #clifi

I've got a Canva account and I'm not afraid to use it!

⚡️Pre-order: linktr.ee/ashleythorpe
#theboytobeatthegods ⚡️

'a really exciting, important new voice in children’s literature and I can’t wait to read what he writes next. Sure to be one of the hottest new debuts in recent years, The Boy To Beat The Gods is an unmissable treat!'
Thank you for your review🥰 Tom G 📕 #theboytobeatthegods

It's here! I am thrilled to reveal this beautiful cover by Katarzyna Doszla, for my upcoming MG Fantasy, Heartseer: The Tale of Anise Star!
Coming this September, from Usborne Publishing!

Seeing lesser experienced colleagues mistreated and anxiety ridden because of toxic management. People don't realise the collective power they have, and often those at the beginning of their careers feel they have none. The wrong sort of employers count on that.

Daughter is off dancing & I’ve signed my headship contract for September so I’m celebrating with a Costa Coffee frappe & reading The Boy To Beat The Gods 📚Ashley Thorpe📚 - I LOVE this book! 🤩📖☀️

Launch night for Amie Jordan's All the Hidden Monsters was immaculate! Happy to meet even more debutants in person too xx

📣Today Work It, Lara Bloom hits the shelves and just like that, I have a completed duology out in the world 🎉 🥳

amazon.co.uk/dp/1471413632
waterstones.com/book/978147141…

🎉 New members announcement 🎉

We are delighted to share some more new members to our network; please join us in welcoming Kimberly Whittam, Sarah Morrell, and Kate Bolden to Children’s Books North! We are delighted to have you all on board 📚

THE UNDYING TOWER - OFFICIAL TRAILER

🐍 Welcome to the Avalonia Zone
🌎 Dystopian Near Future
👵🏻 5% of people never age
⛓️‍💥 The other 95% enslave them
📚 First in a new YA trilogy
🗓️ Out August 1st 2024

📕: uclan publishing

🔗: amzn.eu/d/iIjQHLA

🚨 Sudan - Darfur: The Rapid Support Forces and their allies carried out war crimes and crimes against humanity as part of a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Massalit people and other non-Arab populations in El Geneina. Our new @HRW report: hrw.org/news/2024/05/0…

HAPPY BOOK BIRTHDAY! 🎂

Two STUNNING new books hit the shelves today:

ALL THE HIDDEN MONSTERS by Amie Jordan
NUSH AND THE STOLEN EMERALD by @Jasinbath

Congratulations to both authors! ✨

Grab your copies today at your local indie bookshop👉loom.ly/9DIehSo

It’s hard to believe the living nightmare children have endured for seven months could get worse.

But right now, that’s what’s happening.

Rafah was pounded by air strikes on Monday from Israeli forces.

Families from other parts of #Gaza were originally told to come to #Rafah