I love Olivia Lomenech Gill’s cover for GOODNIGHT SILVER! I’ll reveal the maps (plural!) & illustrations in due course but here u go for the first line of the prologue: ‘The night was still and starlit - the kind of night that looked built for stories.’ waterstones.com/book/untitle…

I am delighted to reveal the magnificent Olivia Lomenech Gill cover for my new book, GOODNIGHT SILVER! This is first and foremost an adventure. But it is also the story of a young girl learning to hope. A child who is lost in the wild and then saved by it. waterstones.com/book/untitle…

10am tomo: I’ll b revealing the cover 4 my new book, GOODNIGHT SILVER, out Oct. Inspired by my travels in Mongolia, this is a standalone set in the Altai Mountains - a salute to the wild - &the artwork is by a Carnegie-winning illustrator who has knocked me sideways w/her talent

I am a writer because I was a reader first. But reading for pleasure is at an all time low. So let's get behind @Literacy_Trust’s #Take10ToRead campaign, aiming to get the nation reading for 10mins a day. ‘Read books as you would breathe air: to fill up & live.’ - Annie Dillard

At 8yo I had very few teeth, zero dress sense &no time4hairbrushes but I did know a vital truth: that reading, for 10mins a day, is life-changing. It boosts confidence, elevates literacy levels, improves mental health & creates more empathetic humans @Literacy_Trust #Take10ToRead

I’M SPEAKING AT @edbookfest THIS SUMMER! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 4pm Monday 11th August. Tickets: edbookfest.co.uk/the-festiva… (the photo of me introducing my daughter to a sheep has nothing to do with anything - just needed a photo to make the spacing work over on instagram)

I’m a bookseller for the day at glorious @nightowl_books! Happy Independent Bookshop Week to all the fantastic booksellers out there 🥳

For all the teachers out there, this from Anne Fine’s ‘Flour Babies’ ❤️

I’m speaking and signing books at @kidslitfest in Barnes this Sunday 22nd June! I’ll be chatting about my Ember Spark series and showing kids how easy it is to conjure up stories of their own ❤️ Tickets: eventbrite.com/checkout-exte…

SOMEHOW, in amongst Geri Halliwell & Dermot O’Leary & Bluey, my new book, Ember Spark &The Unicorn’s Secret (illus @KristinaKister) is an indie bestseller! Signed, sprayed edge copies at @daydreams_bookshop @nightowl_books @mrbsemporium @maxminervas Liz Nojan Books & Wee Bookshop

On tour today with @maxminervas! They have a woodland tunnel and a wall that authors and illustrators sign ❤️ I left a quote from my and @FionaWoodcock’s book, The Snow Dragon: ‘You can be late for many things in life but you should never keep an adventure waiting.’

A photo of my anarchic daughter, the inspiration behind the character of Ember Spark…

Delighted to say that I'm speaking @kidslitfest in Barnes Sunday 22nd June 1:30pm! I'll be talking about all of my books, including my latest - Ember Spark & The Unicorn's Secret - and I'll be helping kids come up with story ideas of their own. Come along! eventbrite.co.uk/e/abi-elphi…