In partnership with @librariesunlimited.bsky.social our 1st Christie for Kids Day is on Sat 13th Sept at Paignton Library. With bestselling children’s authors Robin Stevens & Abie Longstaff @redbreastedbird.bsky.social @abielongstaff.bsky.social Free but pls register www.iacf-uk.org/festival-202...

International Agatha Christie Festival | Christie for Kids

The Agatha Christie Festival, in partnership with Libraries Unlimited, is delighted to introduce the Festival’s first Christie for Kids day at Paignton Library. Open to all families and children, it’s...

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Fun interview with @redbreastedbird.bsky.social at Isabelle Knight's website! springfallschronicle.com/an-author-in...

Another incredible mystery from the genius that is @redbreastedbird.bsky.social, A Stocking Full of Spies sees the younger members of the Ministry of Unladylike Activity head to Bletchley Park. Out 11/09 from @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social #KidlitUK worldssmallestlibrary.wordpress.com/2025/07/27/a...

A Stocking Full of Spies (The Ministry of Unladylike Activity 3) by Robin Stevens

Cover illustration by Jan Bielecki Thrilled to be reading an advance copy of this brilliant new mystery in the middle of July, only I would wonder if it counts as a Christmas book and come to the c…

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Shirt alert at an incredible launch for Cressida Cowell's new book with @redbreastedbird.bsky.social. Dragons! Pic by @primarylibrarian (on insta, still trying to tempt all the librarians onto here...). @cressidacowell.bsky.social is a force of nature, and a force for good. #KidLitUK

Teachers, I am once again begging you to stop giving your pupils assignment where they have to write to and get a response from an author. Do not make us part of a child’s homework grade! We are inevitably only going to find time to reply six weeks after the assignment is due, if at all.

Happy Pride from the Murder Most Unladylike family all around the world. I hope that wherever you are, and whoever you are, my books can feel like home to you. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

And here it is: the gorgeous cover of #AStockingFullofSpies! Illustrated by @janbiel.bsky.social and published by @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social on 11th September this year! Pre-order from @waterstones.bsky.social now … www.waterstones.com/book/the-min...

The cover of A Stocking Full of Spies is … gold! And all will be revealed next week …

And for your next mission … can you guess the colour of A Stocking Full of Spies’s cover before all is revealed on Friday?

Truly evil stuff.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last yr.

Nasty work. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

And the title of Ministry of Unladylike Activity 3 is … A Stocking Full of Spies! Out on the 11th of September 2025! And keep an eye out for the full cover, being revealed very soon …

Let the games begin! Please find attached a clue to the title of Ministry of Unladylike Activity 3, out from @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social in September. It’s hidden in the first paragraph of the book … can you unscramble it in time for the big reveal on Wednesday?

New books. @redbreastedbird.bsky.social @matthewhubbard.bsky.social Hannah Hendy Uketsu Sosuke Natsukawa

It’s Daisy Wells’s birthday, and to celebrate @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social have released this lovely special edition of Arsenic for Tea! With stencilled edges & a brand new intro from me, it’s available from all good bookstores, including @waterstones.bsky.social! www.waterstones.com/book/arsenic...

@redbreastedbird.bsky.social I made a Murder Most Unladylike cake for my son’s birthday. Hope you like it! #MMUL

One week to go until #WBD2025 and if YOU, like me, are a parent panicking about your child’s costume, may I suggest one of my characters? They just wear normal school uniforms with a hat and a magnifying glass, and I have a full guide in this post from 2020: robin-stevens.co.uk/dress-like-t...

Dress like the Detective Society for World Book Day 2020! - Robin Stevens

It's almost World Book Day 2020! The official date is 5th March, but schools will be celebrating all that week - and so will I!

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Look what arrived! My officially licensed #MurderMostUnladylike pins from @litpinsandco.bsky.social! I think they are unbelievably fancy and beautiful and you can order yours from litpinsandco.com/collections/... now!

In honour of Valentine’s Day, I would like to present my favourite historical love story.

Proud to be supporting READ IT FORWARD. 10% of all children's book sales go to @booktrust.org.uk & @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social on @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social in February. I've got a BIG list of book recommendations for inspiration right here: uk.bookshop.org/shop/rashmis... #KidLitUK

One thing I really believe strongly is that we should NOT listen to creators too carefully when they tell us what they think their works are about. My evidence for this is the fact that I realised TODAY that all three of the main characters in MUA have arcs about losing their fathers in some manner.

The takeover of Twitter was a preview of what we're all living with now and a stark example of why you can't let any one person have too much money: they go insane and make themselves everybody's problem

I am very, very careful about getting details right in my books until it comes to military ranks or British peerages. Captain? Major? Commander? Lord? Baronet? Whatever, I don’t care, knowing this feels like narc behaviour.

There are 128 other people in the world who always start Wordle with ROBIN and I want to know who they are.

Wilbur is relaxing on his 😂 cushion, contemplating one of @redbreastedbird.bsky.social’s Murder Most Unladylike puzzles

Signing off for Christmas. Be good, don’t be weird, I’ll be back in 2025.

#StorySnugAdvent December 12th #TheVeryMerryMurderClub an anthology of stories by 13 children's authors. Edited by @serenakpatel.bsky.social & @redbreastedbird.bsky.social. Illustrated by @harrywoodgate.bsky.social storysnug.com/2021/11/very... @farshorebooks.bsky.social #UKKidLit #BookSky #Xmas

god i loved Molesworth. like an artifact from a different planet but the gerunds still live in my mind to this day

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It is once again that time of year when every Books Dad gets absolutely bodied by Molesworth.

I must ask that no one emails me one single time more between now and Christmas.

This is what 10 years of fan letters looks like! I’ve maxed out this filing cabinet completely - closing this one up for good and starting a new drawer in January.