Thank you to All-Party Parliamentary Humanist Group Vice Chair Lorely Burt, ex-Conservative Education Secretary Lord Baker, and Lib Dem education spokesperson Mike Storey CBE 🔶 for challenging the UK Govt's reckless plan to allow 100% religious selection in state-funded faith schools.
humanists.uk/2024/05/07/lor…

Happy Birthday to Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 from all of us here at the RLF. A heartfelt thank you for the support you have shown the organisation. (1/2)

Mick Conefrey writes beautifully, and his knowledge and research is second to none.

PUBLICATION DAY IN THE US! A VERY DIFFERENT COVER BUT EQUALLY STRIKING

#everst #mallory #himalaya #adventure #climb

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We condemn #Israel 's decision to ban Al Jazeera English in a bleak moment for press liberty. The ban includes the closure of Al Jazeera's local offices, its website, and TV channel. Independent and critical voices are essential in providing the public with accurate and timely…

Completely by chance, I once interviewed the finder of this hoard. I was doing research for Theodore Zeldin, and talking to him about his work – hard, old-school work. About an hour into the interview he mentioned, casually, that he'd once found some coins.

Society of Authors EGM was enriching, which I didn't necessarily expect. It was well run and there were inspirational speakers on both sides. Society of Authors: www2.societyofauthors.org/2024/05/02/egm…

At this point, I may just have wanted this book *done*.

Discover the importance of archival research from Mick Conefrey (mick conefrey), the author of a new biography of George Mallory. 📚

Join us at our next Be Inspired lecture at the Society: rgs.org/events/upcomin…

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Free and open to all book marketing event I'm running tomorrow at 10am for
Society of Authors
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Lots of practical ideas for what can be one of the most fun and rewarding areas of book marketing 💪📚

#WritingCommunity #SoAatHome ✍️

A year ago Britain was seized by coronation fever. But once upon a time we were a republic, and I've spent a good few years living in it. What a decade. The monarchy today owes much to what happened when it lost its head. So happy REPUBLIC is on its way with Faber Books

I am thrilled to announce the inaugural 2024 #WomensPrize for Non-Fiction Longlist!
My fellow judges (Professor Nicola Rollock, Kamila Shamsie, Anne Sebba and Venetia La Manna) and I have chosen 16 wonderful books that will illuminate and inspire you...

I wrote a poem about kissing my son on his eyelids at night. In this week’s The TLS 🧡

A trade union IS its members – even when our members disagree with each other.

At this evening's EGM members will vote on three resolutions.

But whatever the results, the SoA is here for every one of you.

No matter your views. No matter how you vote.

www2.societyofauthors.org/event/egm-2024/

This is genuinely shocking. (To summarise the update - Noreen did not agree the edit, and the word has since been reinstated.)

seriously, if you're anywhere near Stockport or Manchester, go.

This is the book my wife has worked on for years, while also lecturing and having our children. It's done. And it's brilliant. I just cried with pride and - honestly - relief. I don't know the right word for that but I bet every author - or author's spouse - knows the feeling.

A third of translators and a quarter of illustrators are losing work due to AI, according to a Society of Authors survey. 

theguardian.com/books/2024/apr….

If only all publishers were this transparent.

Does anyone else out there love Mary Stewart as much as I do? And when am I going to be allowed to adapt her for the telly?