Autistic man (23) ‘trapped’ in psychiatric unit for five years as HSE fails to secure accommodation Man’s family cannot visit him and are only allowed to receive phone calls from him inside facility

Autistic man (23) ‘trapped’ in psychiatric unit for five years as HSE fails to secure accommodation

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A drawing done in pencil and black marker, a character based on children's suggestions. It's a giraffe with the head of a capybara with long spikes of hair. There is also a goldfish bowl on its head. It has very wonky legs and big, clown-like shoes. It's wearing a woolly jumper and a bow tie. There are a strawberry and a chocolate bar hanging on a string in front of it. The suggestions are written in pencil down the side of the picture.

A drawing done in pencil and black marker, a character based on children's suggestions. It's a crocodile standing upright, dressed in trousers, a big woolly jumper, a furry shawl and it has a cat's collar with a bell. Its brain is huge, bulging out of its head. It's holding a kettle in its right hand and and a tin whistle in its left. The suggestions are written in pencil down the side of the picture.

Here's the two drawings I did based on the children's suggestions today in Navan Educate Together, where they were celebrating the opening of their new school library on #WorldBookDay.

As I told the kids, if these are weird, it's their fault.

Last but by no means least, with a rainbow courtesy of my unpredictable phone, a middle-grade novel from Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick, published by @faberbooks.bsky.social at the end of July

Also from @titanbooks.bsky.social, needing no introduction, @griffski.bsky.social. You'll have to wait until June 3rd for Eat the Ones You Love.

April 29th is the release date from @titanbooks.bsky.social for the latest @sgj.bsky.social. It sounds epic.

A summer romance from André Aciman published by @faberbooks.bsky.social on April 10th

A glorious stack of proofs courtesy of @bibliojacq.bsky.social. In more detail⬇️🧵

A new @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social collection will be published by Granta on May 8th

A new Sayaka Murata is always an event - published late April by Granta.

If you've not yet read the first in Moira Buffini's Torch trilogy, you've until August before the second, Torchfire, is published by @faberbooks.bsky.social

The cover of The Unfathomable Curse by Courtney Smyth on a dubray books poster. It is blue themed with a redacted file background. There are blue beetle-flies and a blue pentagram with a magnifying glass in the centre

Cover reveal 🚨🚨🚨

#DubrayBooks kindly revealed the cover of book 3 in the Undetectables series, THE UNFATHOMABLE CURSE!!! 💙🪰

Preorder: www.dubraybooks.ie/product/the-...

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@titanbooks.bsky.social

Congratulations to our Independent Bookshop of the Year Finalists: Island of Ireland 🤩

Bridge Books, Little Acorns Bookstore, Tales for Tadpoles, Tertulia Bookshop and The Secret Bookshelf!

See the full list of finalists 👉 buff.ly/4b0bBbD #BookSky

Books! Fantastic! #BookElves2024
#LateLateToyShow
Nina Peanut - the favourite by Sarah Bowie Age 8+
Sledgehog
Mamaí Gé
Lost and Found - a classic one from Oliver Jeffers
Another classic Wonder (age 9+)

NINA PEANUT! What a fab choice!! #BookElves2024 #LateLateToyShow

Treated to a fab stack of proofs by @bibliojacq.bsky.social today, including @samblakebooks.bsky.social and @katalicedunn.bsky.social

Faber launches Action! Prize | Journal, News | Faber Faber launches the Action! Prize in direct response to research from the National Literacy Trust that reveals children’s reading enjoyment is at its lowest level in almost two decades, and that the pr...

Faber has a new children's literature award for unpublished manuscripts #UKKidLit #UKKidLitNews www.faber.co.uk/journal/fabe...

Hold on to your hats, the OG is back!!!! I remember the utter COMFORT of reading #CityGirl by the gorgeous @patriciascanlan.bsky.social when I was in rehab. Now comes the THREEquel to CityGirl, #CityGirlForever, as warm, relatable and funny as the original. Out 27/3/25

The nominations for 2025 are open! Find out what this means and how you can get involved at: carnegies.co.uk/nominations

#Carnegies nominations opened yesterday and close on the 27th September. If you are a CILIP member you can nominate 1 for each (& I can give you recs if you're not sure!)
Links to nomination forms:
Illustration: fs3.formsite.com/cilip/Carneg...
Writing: fs3.formsite.com/cilip/Carneg...
#kidlituk

2024’s New Horror Books All the new horror books coming in 2024, featuring an array of slashers, ghosts, vampires, cults, monsters both human and otherwise, and all manner of nebulous eldritch terrors.

the 2024 new horror list is live!!!!! please share widely, and if I missed anything, hit the button at the very bottom of the page to tell me about it: readjumpscares.com/2024-new-hor...

Your Face Belongs to Us by Kashmir Hill review – nowhere to hide From stalkers to authoritarian states, the use and abuse of facial recognition tech

Just finished ‘Your Face Belongs To Us’ by @kashhill.bsky.social Got to be one of the most consequential books of the year, about one of the most consequential issues of our time. www.theguardian.com/books/2023/s...

Queer Spectrum Film Festival cancelled due to safety concerns after Dublin far-right riots Dedicated to showcasing the stories of LGBTQ+ people of colour, the Queer Spectrum Film Festival was cancelled due to the Dublin riots.

Queer Spectrum Film Festival cancelled due to safety concerns after Dublin far-right riots gcn.ie/queer-spectr...

MY BOOK WAS ON THE LATE LATE TOY SHOW.

How tf does a stabbing turn into this nightmare

Terrifying scenes in Dublin tonight.

I'm here to lurk like I am on most platforms 🤣

@megcathwrites.bsky.social hiya pal!

Broken Record Temperatures hit new highs, yet world fails to cut emissions (again) UN environment programme 。

this is a bloody great name for a climate report

www.unep.org/resources/em...

I am continuing to use the purchase of childhood favourites as an emotional support crutch for adulthood. big thanks to Chapters for the assistance in this matter