BooksForTopics @booksfortopics.bsky.social 🏆 Award-winning children’s booklisting website 📕 Recommended children’s books sorted by age or topic - visit us at http://www.booksfortopics.com
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Rebecca Franks @rebeccafranks.bsky.social Writer | Journalist | Classical music critic @thetimes.com
Finishing that novel… @BathSpaUni @TheGEAcademy
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BBNYA @bbnya.bsky.social The Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award
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Step into Stories with Bewdley Festival @stepintostories.bsky.social A children’s story festival in the heart of Worcestershire championing stories of all shapes and sizes. April 25th 2026
Paula Burgess @paulaburgess.bsky.social Children's author Rep: Joanna Moult - Skylark Literary
#MAWFYP Bath Spa Uni
@illustratorsfair.bsky.social @illustratorsfair.bsky.social 
@chloesackur.bsky.social @chloesackur.bsky.social Co-host of Total 90s Recall podcast.
MA Podcasting graduate of City St George's University of London
Children's & YA book editor
Podcasts, films, TV, books ... and cats
Chris Callaghan @chris-callaghan.com Children's Author
'When the War Comes In' - Out Now 🛠
Writes about chaos & chocolate 💥🍫
A Geordie living in London 🖤🤍
Ex RAF Engineer & Enviro Scientist 🌍
Loves wine gums
https://www.chris-callaghan.com/
Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social Journalist. Presenter of R4's #MoneyBox Live (Weds, 3pm). Also found on #WakeUpToMoney, #R4Today, BBC 5 Live, #GreenMoneyShow. Enthusiast. Humanist.
KidsWord & AllKidsBooks – Explore, Read & Share! @allkidsbooks.com 🌟 Join our vibrant community of children's book lovers!
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Louise McLaughlin author she / her @louisemclaughlin.bsky.social 📚💙 Scottish fantasy author of D-Notice series- Cassie discovers saving the world with Glaswegian retired gods is a tough gig.
FREE BOOK links
Deviation: Wandering gods https://BookHip.com/HBMLCLS
Darkness https://BookHip.com/XNZJLNF
Kate Mallinder @katemallinder.bsky.social Writer of teen fiction. Secondary school librarian.
Rep: Hannah Sheppard
Summer of No Regrets
Asking for a Friend
Coming soon: Summer Under the Stars
School events for KS3 - get in touch!
Based in Ashby, UK
Www.katemallinder.co.uk
ed public relations @edpr.bsky.social Professional Book Champions 📚
A multi-award-winning agency specialising in books, culture and inclusive storytelling
Claire Linney Author @clairelinney.bsky.social 🇬🇧📚Black British history enthusiast, children’s author and avid reader of diverse and inclusive children’s and YA books.
Authors Aloud UK @authorsalouduk.bsky.social We specialise in arranging author, illustrator, poet and storyteller visits to schools, libraries and other venues in the UK or abroad. We run many virtual events too. https://linktr.ee/AuthorsAloudUK
Knights Of @knightsofbooks.bsky.social Independent. Inclusive. Award-winning children's books publisher 📚| 
@j-h-birch.bsky.social @j-h-birch.bsky.social 
Clare McCarron @claremccarron.bsky.social @BathSpaUni #mawfyp WIP YA In a haze of angst and anger, a city teen collides with the wild Scottish Highlands. LL Guppy 2024, CNPKids Top 100
Maisie Chan 🐼 CHI CHI THE PANDA out now! 🎋 @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social 🏆 Winner of the @JHALAKPRIZE & @BRADFORDBOASE for Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths
🐯 Tiger Warrior author
🔎 Very Merry Murder Club author
Screenwriter @bbcwritersroom Scottish Voices.
Lit Rep: @chloeseager
https://linktr.ee/MaisieChanWrites
Brummie
Emma (emreadsthebooks) @emreadsthebooks.bsky.social Emma/Em (BookTwitter)
Queer 🏳️🌈 Aries ♈
Read diversely/queer books/classics/contemporary
Theatre lover
(EDS/Endo/ASD)
emmaviolet15@googlemail.com
Sarah Currie Dyer @sarahcurriedyer.bsky.social MG/YA Writer | 2025-26 London Library Emerging Writers Programme | #MAWFYP at Bath Spa University | Former Grade 7 English teacher | she/her
Scottish Book Trust @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social A national charity dedicated to changing lives with reading and writing. Home of Bookbug, Book Week Scotland and Reading Schools.
C L Miller @clmillerauthor.bsky.social Author of the internationally bestselling Antique Hunter’s series -
Antique Hunter’s Guide to Murder out now
Antique Hunter’s Death on the Red Sea out feb 25
Rachel Hamilton @rachelhamilton.bsky.social Lecturer at Bath Spa Uni and sometimes Uni of Lincoln (I like train travel), freelance editor and copywriter, author of books about fame-hungry unicorns and exploding toilets, and now PhD researcher into the intersection of AI, comedy and literature. Busy
Bookwagon Limited @bookwagonuk.bsky.social Independent children’s bookstore sharing the reading joy with you!
www.bookwagon.co.uk
@yabookprize.bsky.social @yabookprize.bsky.social Celebrating the best YA fiction in the UK & Ireland with The Bookseller and the Edinburgh International Book Festival ✨
Sifa E. Poulton @sifaelizabethreads.bsky.social Book blogger, nuclear physics PhD student, SFF author, Christian, autistic, acespec, she/her
https://sifaelizabethreads.wordpress.com/links/
Darrell Wakelam @darrellwakelam.bsky.social Freelance artist and provider of 3D ART workshops & training. Author of the best-selling book Art Shaped. Free ART ideas and projects at www.darrellwakelam.com
@oncealibrarian.bsky.social @oncealibrarian.bsky.social 
Caroline Fielding @cazapr1.bsky.social Chartered School Librarian, CILIP @YLGLondon Committee, National conference exhibition manager, Bea keeper. She/her
Charlotte Taylor @charlottetaywrites.bsky.social Aspiring YA writer.
Bath Spa Writing Programme Alumni
Posts all thing books
Loves ghosts
Kat Ellis @katelliswrites.bsky.social YA author of Harrow Lake, Wicked Little Deeds/Burden Falls, and other creepy stuff. The Devouring Light coming this Oct. She/her. https://linktr.ee/katelliswrites?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Joanna Oldman @joannaoldman.bsky.social Children’s Author | Rep'd by David Higham Associates @david-higham-books.bsky.social
www.joannaoldman.com
Emily Randall-Jones @erandalljones.bsky.social Wiltshire girl. MG author of folksy horrors THE WITCHSTONE GHOSTS and THE SCREAM OF THE WHISTLE with Chicken House. Repped by Lucy Irvine, DA. Storyteller/Workshop Person. Longlisted for Branford Boase. Messy ND overthinker, big fan of tea and magic.
Nic Pearce @nicpearce.bsky.social Artist, Illustrator and Librarian 
B For Butterfly Books @bforbutterflybooks.bsky.social Independent bookshop based in Brooklands, Sale, Greater Manchester.
Ziggy Zou @ziggy-zou.bsky.social Writer of children's picture books. Creator of zombies and mermaids and dreamer-upper of adventures.
Real name, Rachael. Mum of 2 nearly grown-up boys.
https://mybook.to/magicmermaidtail
ziggyzoubooks.co.uk
Tracy Darnton @tracydarnton.bsky.social Author of YA thrillers Ready or Not, The Rules and The Truth About Lies, picture book My Brother is an Avocado.
Rep’d by Jo Williamson
Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social Writer & broadcaster.
🏴 🌈 🖊️📚 🎭 📺 📻 🪴 🐔 🥃
He/Him
www.damianbarr.com
📕 The Two Roberts is my new novel. I curated an exhibition about them for Charleston which is now at the Dick in Kilmarnock.
📕 Maggie & Me.
📕 You Will Be Safe Here.
PhD, FRSL, FRSE
Zulekhá A. Afzal @zulekhaa-afzal.bsky.social Author of YA fantasy DANCERS OF THE DAWN ☀️ Agent: Lauren Gardner
https://linktr.ee/zulekhaa_afzal
Rachel Delahaye @racheldelahaye.bsky.social Childish writer. 🇬🇧 + 🇦🇺. Carnegie-nominated.
Rep: @agentalicewilliams.bsky.social
My type on paper
YA: Splinters 🪞 Electric Life ⚡
MG: Last Hope Highway, Day of the Whale, Mort the Meek, Animal Rescue
School talks / workshops KS1-KS3
www.racheldelahaye.com
Farrah Riaz @farrahriaz.bsky.social London writer ✨ picture book The Twirly Wiggly Dance available now to buy✨
#WritingCommunity #2024debut Insta: farr.ahriaz
@tinabookpusher.bsky.social @tinabookpusher.bsky.social PR Scholastic UK - FKA book pusher Midas, HarperCollins, Bonnier Books and Abrams & Chronicle Books
Bookstagram: https://www.instagram.com/exlibris_tina/
Helen Harvey @helenharvey.bsky.social Children's writer and library badger. Author of Emmy Levels Up (OUP). Likes coffee, cats, knitting and climbing. 
Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com Senior editor at DarlingAxe.com. Novelist at SeptimusBrown.com. Award-winning short-fiction writer. Chaotic good. He/they. 🏳️🌈
Jodie Houghton @jodes.bsky.social WriteMentor short-story winner (2021), longlist PB Award (2022,23); Winners’ Circle/honourable mention #50PreciousWords (2022,23); winner #50WordWonders (2022); longlist Green Stories short-story competition (2023).
Gina Blaxill @ginablaxill.bsky.social YA author of twisty thrillers. Classic crime enthusiast, coffee drinker and cat parent. Not as dark as my books! Latest: LOVE YOU TO DEATH (Scholastic, 2023). Essex Libraries Author in Residence 2024.
Russell Gascoigne @russgascoigne.bsky.social Scriptwriter ~ MG/YA author ~ Worked for BBC Drama/European Script Fund #Screenwriting support here http://bit.ly/38B8neZ Rep'd @ Curtis Brown https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/russell-gascoigne
Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com Novel development & editing services. Our editors are industry experts and award-winning writers. Take your manuscript to the next level.
DarlingAxe.com
Fraer Stevenson @fraerstevenson.bsky.social Writer/Artist/Selkie | Arts Council DYCP (Literature) Grant Recipient | MA Creative Writing | SL Aurora Prize | LL The Next Big Story @Thenovelry | LL BCNA @bathnovelaward
ToBeBooks @tobebooks.bsky.social Rebel booksellers, UK based social enterprise founded to sell children’s books so our profits can fund children’s libraries. #changebookdeserts #activists 🫶🏾🏳️🌈📚 p.s seeking investment https://tobebooks.co.uk/
Helen MacKenzie @helenmackenzie.bsky.social Writer based in Scotland. YA and MG mostly. UV 2020 and Scottish Book Trust New Writer’s Award 2017. Dotty about my spotty dog.
Sharada Keats @sharadakeats.bsky.social Not here that much! Writing #Kidlit #Author #Debut2024 These Stolen Lives April 2024. This Shattered Promise coming 2025
Website: https://sharadakeats.wordpress.com/
Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social Digital Project Manager for Scottish Book Trust. Children’s books and comics enthusiast. Dyslexic. ME/CSF. Here for the kids book chat. All views my own. #KidsBooksFriday 📚🏴
Amarantha Pike @amaranthapike.bsky.social Writes for children & teens: contemporary, adventure, magical-realism. @SCBWI_BI. Travels. Mother to adventurer. Loves dancing. If only there were more chances to dance.
Zeena Gosrani @zeenagos.bsky.social Writer.
My debut novel, This Dark Heart is out now.
Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social Working with National Writing Project teachers and students to create Writing Partners writingpartners.net a social annotation platform that supports AI-guided writing, reading, and discussion. I'll be posting here about what we are learning together.
CLPE @theclpe.bsky.social The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) is a UK based charity that creates and delivers award-winning literacy training and resources for the teachers of early years and primary school children.
Tom Tolkien @tomtolkien.bsky.social Editor of https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk and https://k-12readinglist.com . Ex teacher and senior leader. Homepage: https://tomtolkien.com
Maudie Smith (aka Amanda, Mands, Moobag) @maudiesmith.bsky.social Children's book writer with a side of veg and flowers. Based near the Bath
https://www.maudiesmith.co.uk/
https://contactanauthor.co.uk/Author/17/maudie-smith
H S Norup @hsnorup.bsky.social Children’s author of
💚🧚 THE CHANGELING CHILD
💙🧚 INTO THE FAERIE HILL
🥢👻 THE HUNGRY GHOST
❄️⛷️ THE MISSING BARBEGAZI
@PushkinPress | #SCBWI | Reader | She/Her | first name: Helle | 🇩🇰 in🇨🇭via 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇸🇬🇦🇹
www.hsnorup.com
Tamsin Mori @tamsinmori.bsky.social MG #UKkidlit writer - author of the Weather Weaver trilogy and Gargoyles. Discovering magic in the everyday. Endlessly curious. Book worm tending towards book dragon.
Loves: cats, crochet, creative people.
Mo O’Hara @moohara.bsky.social Writer/ performer/ children’s author. 
Hannah Moffatt @missdeplume.bsky.social Hello, I’m a children’s author from London. SMALL! & SMALL BITES BACK out now.
HELP! ALIENS STOLE MY GRANDAD out 28 May
Publisher: Everything With Words
https://hannahmoffatt.com/
Nadia Shireen @nadiashireen.bsky.social Writer and illustrator of silly things.
Abie Longstaff @abielongstaff.bsky.social 📚 Children's author of picture books, chapter books and Middle Grade.
🌟 Chair of the Children's Writers and illustrators Group at Society of Authors. 💃Posts are my own.
Mimi Thebo @mimithebo.bsky.social Author/Academic “…movingly explores the interconnectedness of our minds, bodies, spirituality and physical environment…”
MA, PhD, SFHEA, RLF / Multi-Carnegie nominee
(LFG, Chiefs)
Peter Bunzl @peterbunzl.bsky.social Bestselling UK Children’s author writing about clockwork, hope and magic. #COGHEART etc. New book #GLASSBORN out now! 🏳️🌈 (he/him)
Hilary McKay @hilarymckay.bsky.social Children's author since before the internet was invented.
If I've blocked you it's because Can't Argue With Stupid is a fact.
Christopher Edge @christopheredge.bsky.social Award-winning author. 0.4% potassium. Books include ESCAPE ROOM, BLACK HOLE CINEMA CLUB, ESCAPE ROOM: GAME ZERO and FEAR FILES: HIDE AND SEEK. “A writer of genuine originality.” The Guardian https://rb.gy/l2ynyx
Sally Nicholls @sallynicholls.bsky.social Author of books inc 'Ways to Live Forever', 'Things a Bright Girl Can Do', 'The Button Book', 'A Chase in Time'. 'Leaving the House' out now. Lives in Liverpool with husband and two kids, Quaker, bridge-player, woolly liberal. Profile pic by Ellie Snowden.
Gareth P Jones @garethpjones.bsky.social Writer of books, composer of musicals, performer of performances. Listen, I'll pretty much do anything for the right price. I'll clean your car windows if you're paying & I have access to a damp cloth.
Eve Ainsworth @eveainsworth.bsky.social Award winning working class author. Writes children’s books and adult romance/suspense.
Safeguarding Lead. Part time Lady Stardust.
Somebody I Used To Love - 2024
Pieces of Us - 2025
Loves football, fudge and fascinating fascinations.
Jo Cotterill/Kenrick @jocotterillbook.bsky.social Children's author moving into screenwriting. BAFTA Rocliffe new writing shortlistee 2023. She/her.
jocotterill.com
Tell Tales Books @telltales.bsky.social More bookshelf than bookshop! I stock books for children.
Smallest shop you’ll ever see, but the warmest welcome. ❤️📚
Marisa Linton @mlinton.bsky.social Author of The Binding Spell. Historian of the French Revolution. Writer of history books. Writer of fiction. Winner of the Times/Chicken House Comp 2023. Rep'd by Lucy Irvine at PFD @lucyirvine93.bsky.social
marisalinton.com
Lisa Thompson @lthompsonwrites.bsky.social Author of mainly contemporary mystery books for younger readers. (The Goldfish Boy and more).
(And dogs. I love dogs.)
lisathompsonauthor.com
Agent: Adam Gauntlett at PFD
Authors Abroad @authorsabroad.bsky.social Organising Author, Poet, Illustrator and Storyteller visits for schools & libraries all over the world, #AIMHigh Days and #PoetrySlams in the UK.
https://linktr.ee/authorsabroad
#Edusky #Booksky #KidLit
Gráinne O’Brien @grainneobrien.bsky.social Bestselling author with O’Brien Press. Solo coming April 2025 with Little Island. Bookseller with Kennys Bookshop. Rontu Literary Service. www.rontuliteraryservice.com
Alice Nuttall @alicenuttallbooks.bsky.social My debut THE ZOMBIE PROJECT is coming out in January 2025! Writer, word witch, feminist werewolf and coffee thief. She/her
A.J.Clack @ajclack.bsky.social YA thriller writer, dog lover and general overthinker. Lie or Die out now. Lie or Die 2: Blood Moon coming Autumn 2025. Rep'd by Saskia Leach
Teacher Writers @teacherwriters.bsky.social Helping teachers who want to write and publish their work.
Join the Teacher Writers community today! ❤️ ✍ 📚
Jackie Mendoza @writerandhounds.bsky.social 📚🖊️🧙🏽♀️
Writer, Mystery Seeker, Priestess 🏳️🌈
Peters Fraser & Dunlop Queer Fiction Prize 2023 Shortlistee
Guest Editor, Mentor & Workshop Facilitator: Writing Our Legacy
Charlotte Duckworth / Rixon @charduck.bsky.social 📚USA Today bestselling author of 7 novels
Purveyor of writer merch: https://tinyurl.com/y4xmbtsh
Rep: @littlehardman.bsky.social •
https://www.charlotteduckworth.com/
SiyaMchunu @siyamchunu.bsky.social Freelance Writer/New Author
https://medium.com/@heelextension
https://www.patreon.com/cw/siyamchunu
buymeacoffee.com/SiyabongaMchunu
https://amazon.com/dp/B0CWB6HGT2
NSFW 18+
RachelWardbooks @rachelwardbooks.bsky.social Writer of cozy crime series, The Supermarket Mysteries, plus psych thrillers, and YA (Numbers). Now non-fiction, Write Your Cozy Mystery. Takes photos of Bath, UK, draws, paints, wrangles dogs.
Louise Gooding @louisegooding.bsky.social Neurodivergent Kidlit writer fuelled by coffee and sugar, and F/T youth worker at Break Charity 🙌.
Also, the very recently made captain of Dragon’s Fury, the women’s buhurt team in Norwich😅
She/her. Rep’d by Creative Roots
Julia Green @jgreenauthor.bsky.social Author of many children's books; most recent ETTIE AND THE MIDNIGHT POOL & The Boy Who Sailed the World. Emeritus Professor of Writing for Young People at Bath Spa Uni. Live at the northeast coast. Love walking, wild swimming, reading.
Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com Author (THE BUTTERFLY ASSASSIN trilogy; THE WOLF AND HIS KING) and medievalist specialising in the Ulster Cycle. #1 fan of Láeg mac Ríangabra.
🏳️🌈 they/them | siad/iad
📍Cambridge, UK
♿
https://finnlongman.com
Robin Stevens @redbreastedbird.bsky.social Author of the Murder Most Unladylike series and the Ministry of Unladylike Activity. 🏳️🌈
Tamsin Cooke @tamsincooke.bsky.social Childrens author (Cat Burglar and Stunt Double series) turning Fantasy writer. Loves animals, maps and word games
Librarimum🇵🇸📕 @librarimum.bsky.social Personal Reflections on life
🕋 🇬🇧 🇧🇩 🧕🏾📚
UKSLYA 2022🏆
Yoto Carnegies Judge 2023/2024 📚
Branford Boase Judge 2025
IG: @blessed_mum_of_five
Rob Biddulph @robbiddulph.bsky.social Children's book author and Illustrator of the Year 2025. #DrawWithRob, Peanut Jones, I Follow the Fox, Gigantic, Odd Dog Out, Show and Tell, Blown Away, GRRRRR! & more.
Agent: @jodiehodges.bsky.social
www.robbiddulph.com
www.youtube.com/@DrawWithRob
Jo Unwin @jojojojojo.bsky.social 
hux | aka Lizzie Huxley-Jones @littlehux.bsky.social they/them and mayhem
writing kidlit and romcoms. queer disabled joy always. ♾️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈♿️🏴 audhd
📚 Reality Check, Make You Mine This Christmas, Under the Mistletoe With You, Hits Different, Vivi Conway
www.lizziehuxleyjones.com
https://linktr.ee/littlehux
Sarah Crossan @sarahcrossan.bsky.social Writer based in Sussex.
Primrose Hill Books @primrosehillbooks.bsky.social One of London's leading independent bookshops, established as a family business for more than thirty-five years.
134 Regent's Park Road
London NW1 8XL
020 7586 2022
www.primrosehillbooks.com