Gill Ward

@mazevansauthor I so wanted to celebrate with you! It was so lovely of you to come to my surprise retirement party...

I AM DOOMED!!! I’m afraid we will have to cancel the launch party for The Last Bard, due to the industrial action. I will try to contact everyone, but if you were coming, can you comment that you’ve seen this - and tell your friends! 6.5 years since my last launch. Super.

When it says that GCSE grades are down (or up), it is virtually meaningless. It just means that examiners sat in a room and moved the bell curve. I love it when journalists report this up-down malarkey like it means something.

Don’t worry if you didn’t manage to get Oasis tickets. This is the next best thing.

Wonderful to see @Fortismere_Sch with our new KS3 Super-Readable Rollercoaster 'Phoenix Brothers' (spot the author, Sita Brahmachari)! A warm thank you to Senior Librarian @fortislibbie for helping to arrange the visit, and including the novel in the reading group.📚 #TeamEnglish

Blimey that man knows how to punch us in the gut 😭 All hail school libraries and those who know that they’re worth their weight in gold! @GreatSchLibs @EarlyTrain

And the winner is ... Voted by about 800 children from Haringey schools ... The Island At The Edge of The Night by @theLucyStrange Published by @chickenhsebooks Cover by #HelenCrawfordWhite 💐 Congratulations, Lucy! 💐

The book voted by the young users of Haringey Library service as their Bibliobuzz winner ... Bird Boy by @catherinebruton Published by @NosyCrow Cover: #OriolVidal @haringeylibrary @Yourallypally Congratulations, Catherine!

Delighted to meet fellow @LangtonGirls alumnus today for the @APChBookAward @Yourallypally. And even more delighted when @theLucyStrange won - voted favourite by 800+ Haringey students, including @Fortismere_Sch Congratulations Lucy, hurrah 🎉 🥂

Today's the day! Looking forward to taking this lovely bunch to @APChBookAward day @Yourallypally and catching up with fellow shortlisters @TanyaEfthymiou @HelenSwinyard @klereira. What a magic set of books we chose! And what a day to look forward to 🎉

6 books read, ready to vote, how do we choose from the brilliant @APChBookAward shortlist? Our group @Fortismere_Sch is excited to meet @theLucyStrange @samuelsedgman @ljlittleson @GuyBassBooks @catherinebruton on 14th March @Yourallypally #bibliobuzz

@AHicksonLovence @WritersCentre Fab news Ashley! And on Empathy Lab's 2025 collection too, hurrah!

BOOK OF THE YEAR! 🥲🏆 WILD EAST has been crowned overall WINNER of the East Anglian Book Awards! Thanks to the judges, @WritersCentre, sponsors, teachers, librarians, booksellers, book buyers. I’m very grateful to everyone who continues to read, review and recommend it 🧡🧡

***📚Book Giveaway📚*** Copies of Homer’s ‘The Iliad’ and ‘The Odyssey’, translated by Emily Wilson. Please retweet to enter. Winner to be drawn at random. Entries from both UK and abroad welcome. Last day for entry is 14/03/2025. Good Luck. 🙂🤞

Alison Holt, contemporary textile artist who creates machine and hand embroidered artworks #womensart

Please make reading with babies cool 💪

I've been reading Chapter 4 to Year 7s in library lessons this week. Perfect. Total, respectful hush. Discussions after. Thanks @MichaelRosenYes @HMD_UK

@IMcMillan Expecting updates on the locked out folk in Kidderminster - did they spend the second half of the Readings at the bus stop?

That’s my name under TS Eliot’s face!

Another top of the league visit to @Fortismere_Sch from our fabulous @patronofreading! A great way to start the new year for our Y7s who were buzzing to meet @DanFreedman99.

A wonderful author. Deaf Sentence was one of my favourites.

We are extremely sad to hear of the death of our revered long-time author David Lodge. Our thoughts are with his children and family. His influential place in the history of British letters will endure through the wonderful body of work he leaves behind. Read the full statement: bit.ly/40krZ2E Photography © Joel Kaplan