Remember, we don't celebrate women in office because we think women are superior moral agents. We celebrate because women are 51% of the country's population and have just as much right to be in Parliament as men.

Save the date!

We'll be revealing this year's #CheltLitFest lineup on Thursday 11 August📚

Between now and then we'll be sharing pun-filled illustrations courtesy of Jelly Armchair that give you a sneak peek at who to expect at the Festival

Get your guesses ready...

Rare photograph of the brain of a reader half-way through a perfect sentence.

Huge thanks to Phoenix Books, a literary force in the ascendant, for inviting me onto your Phoenix-ominal list. #TheWitchingTide is about ordinary women whose lives were blighted by England's deadliest witch hunt. Their stories demand to be remembered

Delighted & encouraged to be longlisted for the marvellous Words and Women short prose competition. Winner announced tomorrow!

we read everything at The Reader jane davis

Count me in! #everybodyin akitine Inclusive Minds CIC

It's been so long, but #TwinPeaks is a masterpiece of Storytelling

Delighted to lend my support to Voices for the Library, their work & manifesto: bit.ly/17TklgU via @vftl_uk

Inadvertent prison book ban hinders learning:bbc.co.uk/news/education…

40% of UK's poorest children leave primary school unable to read well. Unhappy? Then please support: #ReadonGeton . save.tc/FFR1

'Form to me seems like decor in a restaurant.' - An interview with Martin Amis via The Paris Review bit.ly/1s80d52

Poetry might be (even) more interesting if poets chose their names, like pop groups. I especially like 'Grumbling Fur'...

Brian Patten's robot, found on wasteland behind Adrian Henri's flat, Canning St. Liverpool The Poetry Trust #APFXXV

Elsa was unhappy with her extensions, but thanked and paid the hairdresser before posting a negative Yelp review.

Bookless libraries: yes or no? A considered analysis from a pro-tech librarian bit.ly/1yglrLz

'I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.'
Kafka. It's his birthday

Give a man a poem, and he will starve for a day—but teach a man to be a poet, and he will starve for a lifetime….

Great news for bookworms & novelists: brain function 'boosted for days after reading a novel' independent.co.uk/news/science/b…

Tomorrow is Father's Day, books are easy to wrap, here's an app or trail to help you find a bookshop. bit.ly/1quwdeQ You're welcome.