Didn’t listen to the play what I wrote? It’s here… bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001vt…

Curve Theatre banned me. I performed "Let the Light Pour In" at The Curve Theatre in Leicester earlier this week. At the end of the two-hour show. (which sold out), usually, the final slide is a QR code like the one below. It is an appeal from The Gold from The Stone Foundation, which supports Christmas Dinners for care leavers on Christmas Day, and it resonates deeply with my life and the show. Leicester Curve Theatre banned me from showing the QR code and subsequently edited my slides. They said they cut it out because they were a charity themselves. The audience included members from the local Christmas Dinners teams. This has never happened before. I am surprised Curve Theatre could be so uncharitable and mean, in these times, but there you have it. If you have a spare fiver, please check out the charity via the QR Code. @curve_leicester The Gold from the Stone Foundation #curvetheatre

@HeidiBT3 👀💭 I've been doing RAFAwalks October!

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Congratulations to the Readers' Choice 2026 top 3 in Non-Fiction Picture Book, Children's and YA Winner: Different Like Us! by Margaret Rooke 2nd: One Diwali Day by Dev Kothari, Aditi Anand 3rd: History's Most Epic Fails by Athena Kugblenu, Nicole Miles #TheDBAwards

For #BlackHistoryMonth we are giving away a #bookbundle of four ESSENTIAL reads from our 2026 longlists. For a chance to win, RT and reply below before 11:59 on Saturday 31 October 2029 (UK only)

The 2026 Readers' Choice Award Winner for Best Children's Book is... Running My Own Race by Abena Eyeson (Nosy Crow) #TheDBAwards #thediversebooks

It's almost Halloween! For those that love a thrill, we've put together a list of 13 of our most spine-chilling short novels. From hair-raising thrillers to sci-fi horror, these books are bound to get you in the mood for the spookiest day of the year... bit.ly/4sN53WN

Day 4 Halloween books - The Price of Greed Tanya Landman & Katie Kear, pub Barrington Stoke A brilliant new take on The Pardoners Tale. Part of a brand new series for struggling teenage readers. Tanya Landman is so good at writing these accessible reads & this is excellent.

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Congratulations to The Diverse Book Awards top 3 in Children's Books Winner: My Name is Samim by Fidan Meikle 2nd place: Runaways by E.L. Norry 3rd place: Kofi and the Brand New Vibe by Jeffrey Boakye Sponsored by Gemma Cooper Literary #TheDBAwards #thediversebookawards

We are looking forward to @DyslexiaScotlan's Education Conference this Saturday in Glasgow. Come and say hello!

One of the men who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry last year was a Palestinian-American, Omar Yaghi. Racist POS.

JD Vance's in-laws' names are Radhakrishna Chilukuri and Lakshmi Chilukuri. I wonder if he tells them this stuff, too. To their faces. Or does he just save it for white MAGA rallies? Truly a racist pathetic embarrassment of a son-in-law to his brown Indian immigrant in-laws.

Our own @lindanewbery in conversation with Cindy Jefferies, talking about her excellent new novel #TheHide. Lovely cover!

#MarkedForDeath, a new supernatural teen thriller from #MelindaSalisbury, is out January 2027! "In just 100 pages, Salisbury manages to build suspense and explore ideas of permission in the age of smartphones in this creepy cautionary tale" @thebookseller's Top Ten for January📱

Coming up on the 5th November: The Rise of Far-Right Politics in India as a Reflection of the Steady Militarization of Indian Society eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-rise-… A scholar who connects a lot of dots from India to Palestine to Brazil and more (PS full disclosure: she’s my sister 😁)

RT @LouiseRawAuthor: WILLIAM CUFFAY - one of our first Black political leaders! Son of an enslaved man; born with disabilities; became a ke…

A bloke tending to his motor, 1988 Cuba Street, Isle of Dogs London 📷 Tim Brown

Potters Fields with a view across the river towards the Tower of London, 1987 From a brilliant book of London photographs 1980 - 1990 by Tim Brown. What I'd give to walk those streets again. All shiny glass buildings across London these days but with zero character.