Macron urges students to go offline one day a month and read instead France's President Macron has made disconnecting from devices a key issue for children.

Macron urges students to go offline one day a month and read instead.
#ReadMoreBooks

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, and post the second sentence.

"Those from Boeotia had as their commanders Clonius, Leitus, Peneleus, Arcesilaus, and Prothenor."

Teachers vow to 'fight censorship' after school book row The UK's largest education union says librarians have reported

Book banning is also on the increase in the UK. This
comes after the Index on Censorship reported that the Lowry Academy in Salford had removed books containing "inappropriate content" from its library. It said they included Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell and Twilight by Stephenie Meyer.

Book bans and attempted bans remain at record highs, with 'Sold' topping the list The American Library Association says book bans and attempted bans remain at record highs. Efforts to remove titles have become more coordinated and politicized.

Book bans and attempted bans in the USA remain at record highs, according to the American Library Association. And efforts to have titles removed have never been more coordinated or politicized.
#BookSky

“Books are patient where we are slow to understand, allow us to go over the hard parts as many times as we wish, and are never critical of our lapses. Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.”

— Carl Sagan

We have x4 tickets (returns) available for this event 👇

Join us for Question Time with Andrew Lownie, Saturday, 30th May 6.30pm. Ask your own questions directly to the author during the live Q&A*. Book directly with the Blonde Hedgehog.
#Entitled #AndrewLownie in #Alderney

*Questions must be submitted to the Trust ahead of the event.

Isn't it? 😁

#WorldBookDay 📚

We're completely sold out! To go on a waiting list, contact Alderney Visitor Centre or email us.
#Entitled

A globe made up of book spines sitting on wooden flooring in a library. In the background, a wall to wall bookcase and comfy chairs.

Happy World Book Day! 5th March.
We're celebrating it with a literary quiz this evening at the Blonde Hedgehog. It's sold out! If you are coming, it's a 7pm prompt start.
#WorldBookDay

Sadly, we've had to cancel the 2026 Alderney Literary Festival. Please refer to our press release on our website for more information.
www.alderneyliterarytrust.com/press-releases

True. And I expect we will have a clearer picture of events by the end of May when Andrew Lownie is over.

Tickets are now available at the Alderney Visitor Centre.

These French crime thrillers are set in #Alderney!
Beatriz Nicodeme lives near Nantes and is a writer of crime and historical novels.
She fell in love with Alderney when she visited, and that inspired her to start a series of cosy crime novels set there.
#Books 📚 #CrimeThrillers

Book cover showing a middle aged man in a black top hat and dress coat carrying an umbrella next to a red haired female wearing a white hat and outfit carrying a black clutch bag and umbrella.

Delighted to welcome biographer Andrew Lownie to #Alderney Saturday 30 May 2026 2.30pm @ The Georgian House for the launch of his updated (paperback) book ‘Entitled: the rise and fall of the House of York’.
For more information and tickets, go to www.alderneyliterarytrust.com/events

A man in a sailor hat and dark sunglasses behind a bar pouring blue coloured cocktails.

Two men (white shirts, white sailor caps & dark sunglasses) with two women (on left, red sailor cap, sunglasses, and shirt) (between men, dressed in sparkly silver) arm in arm standing in front of a bar wall full of bottles.

Two men (dark sunglasses) and a woman in white shirts and a woman in red shirt and sunglasses in front of a bar wall stocked with bottles.

👏👏👏to the staff of the Blonde Hedgehog #Alderney for making our #MurderMystery dinner 'Cruising to Disaster' such a success. Delighted to have thriller writer Ruth Ware among our guests. Congratulations to Munchie Choksey for guessing the murderer!

Thank YOU, Ruth! So wonderful meeting you.

Two women standing in front of a roller banner with a colourful red/blue/green feather on it.

The lovely @ruthwarewriter.bsky.social Ruth Ware (right) with Rachel Abbott at The #Alderney Literary Trust's event on the book launch of The Woman in Suite 11.

Ruth Ware @ruthwarewriter.bsky.social the international bestselling author of The Woman in Cabin 10 will be in #Alderney to talk about her sequel, The Woman in Suite 11. Join us for a day of talks and a murder mystery dinner on Saturday 8th November. More info at www.alderneyliterarytrust.com/events

Alderney Literary Festival 2025 YouTube video by David Earl

We are updating our programme for later this year. In the meantime, watch our video of the 2025 Alderney Literary Festival and our wonderful authors!
#AlderneyLitFest 2025
m.youtube.com/watch?v=CNii...

Alderney Literary Festival chalks up another success This year’s sell-out Alderney Literary Festival has been hailed as the pinnacle of author-reader engagement after 10 top-selling authors mingled

Great write up of the #AlderneyLitFest 2025! A huge thanks to all our lovely guest authors for making this possible. ❤️

A poster: Do the Write Thing and protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training. # meta book thieves

If someone stole millions from others to start or improve their business, they would go to jail. End of story.

AI should not be the end of our stories.

Society of Authors protest image 'I'll be asking meta to #DoTheWriteThing' on 3rd April. Below the white text on a turquoise background there aee cartoon people holding signs saying #makeitfair

On way to London to protest Meta's scraping of LibGen to feed their Llama AI. Join @thesocietyofauthors 1.30 in Granary Square, King's X to add your voice!

Sign the SoA petition at change.org (or sign again if u didn't get conf email) - it's at 9k sigs now, let's get it to 10k by lunchtime!

Image shows a magazine open at a double-page feature about the Alderney Literature Festival. The feature is entitled ‘Weaving the historical narrative’ There’s a banner across the top of the image, with thumbnail images of book covers.

Well, that’s a first!
Never featured in an in-flight magazine before…

For Alderney Lit Fest 🥰
Alongside all the other marvellous writers at the Festival.

@aurigny.bsky.social @quercusbooks.bsky.social
@alderneylit.bsky.social

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I've had the most marvelous weekend at @alderneylit.bsky.social #AlderneyLitFest 2025. Something magic happens when our guest authors click together and with our festival-goers. It makes all the hard work worthwhile. ❤️ To our authors! Thanks so much for coming to #Alderney.

Our closing session of this festival is a panel discussion with the fabulous @lavietidhar.bsky.social, the incredible @ellenalpsten.bsky.social and fantastic Anna Abney/Madeline Dewhurst.
#AlderneyLitFest 2025

To open our final day of this fabulous festival is @florajowriter.bsky.social. Flora Johnston takes us through the lives of her characters and we explore not only the global decision making but the impact of the trauma of war on individuals and the ongoing quest for peace.
#AlderneyLitFest 2025

Finding a gull’s nest in Hitler’s Atlantic Wall…
A clip from an interview for the wonderful #AlderneyLitFest, about what makes it special to talk about the #SecondWorldWar on this #ChannelIsland…

Last but not least, fantastic author today is Anna Abney explains her approach to writing historical fiction, how she researches the background to her novels and how the characters and plots grow out of that research.
#AlderneyLitFest 2025