A very exciting week as a book lover, with paperback releases for all these incredible authors! 📚 Highly recommend #TheWomenWithAllTheAnswers and #LightsOut. Can’t wait to get hold of The Family Experiment and The Household!

Just a few chapters in and already loving the balance of humour and contemplation this highly relatable book is giving me. #TheWomanWithAllTheAnswers @LindaGreenisms

2024 was Liz’s year. In an interview she once said she’d had one piece of bad luck, followed by a hundred pieces of good luck. Liz lived life to the full. She took photographs at castles and red carpets, at theatres and movie studios, she captured in her lense the emotions of actresses and comedians, of her very best friends and of total strangers. But more importantly she understood what it meant to truly be alive. Liz was passionate, kind and brave, the best big sister and the truest friend anyone could hope for. 2024 was the year Liz fulfilled her dreams. It was also the year she was taken from us. Liz was 17 when she died, just 10 months after being diagnosed with Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumour. She was brilliant and beautiful, though she would have denied being either. She fought every single day, determined not to leave her brother behind, determined that she would leave him with a lifetime of memories even if she had only months to achieve it. As 2025 rolls in at midnight, please consider buying a drink for Liz. The final item on her bucket list was to improve DSRCT treatment - a cancer that gets funding from neither governments or pharmaceutical companies. If everyone celebrating tonight chose to buy one for Liz and donate to the fund we could make a huge difference. It doesn’t take one powerful person. It takes lots of ordinary people to stand up and do what’s right. In 2025 young people should not be dying of cancer, simply because no one has invested in researching it. Terry Pratchet once said “No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away” Let’s make Liz’s ripples the biggest we have ever seen. Will you join us for just one drink? justgiving.com/crowdfunding/… #LizHatton #BuyLizADrink (N.B. If you can please add Liz to your Facebook or Instagram story or talk about her as you sit with friends tonight. Let’s make Liz’s impact in 2025 even bigger than it was in 2024)

Can you help? Do you have access to somewhere with a staff notice board or public toilet? If so could you help us spread the word of Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tunour and the urgent need for research? We are looking for people to pop posters on the inside of toilet doors or on notice boards across the country (and beyond) to spread the message beyond social media. These are the posters we have prepared which can be downloaded from here: we.tl/t-sls2FgVDNB As always shares, likes and comments are very welcome. Tags of people and businesses who might be able to help would be very welcome. The QR codes link directly to the JustGiving page: justgiving.com/crowdfunding/… If you manage to persuade anyone we’d love to see photos of the posters in situ. Together we can make a difference #LizHatton

YOUR 2024 F1 ACADEMY CHAMPION! 🎉 Take a bow, Abbi Pulling! 👏 #F1Academy #QatarGP

This is one of my very favourite videos of Liz. It captures her doing the thing that gave her the most joy. Liz was a shy person by nature, but behind a camera she was relaxed, dynamic and in control. I loved watching her take photos and could do it for hours. Liz’s dream was to become a professional photographer. This shoot arranged by @rheathcote and @GarethGetty was an experience she spoke about every day for the remainder of her life. She knew exactly what she wanted her shots to look like, and definitely gave far more banter than she was given. It isn’t an exaggeration to say that her relationship with both these photographers changed her world. They gave her the confidence to believe in herself and to follow her heart. They treated her as a true photographer - that meant everything to her. Liz was kind, funny, generous and stubborn. She had amazing ideas and loved being taught how to execute them. She should have had a lifetime to hone her craft. Instead on Wednesday of this week she went to sleep for the final time. Not content with leaving her photographs for the world to enjoy, Liz has left her body to medical science. She is determined that others in the future will be able to live out their dreams, that better treatments for Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumour will be found. Please help her to achieve that by donating, sharing, liking or commenting: justgiving.com/crowdfunding/… Together we can make sure others have the future that Liz deserved. Video created by the fantastic @WJConnolly #LizHatton

Truly magical experiencing @LouiseWriter’s #HowToBeBrave at @41monkgate last night. I was utterly absorbed in the journeys we were taken on, living each moment with the characters. The moments portrayed while being accompanied by @musicbyCarrieM’s track took my breath away 💙⚓️

A fantastically researched and chilling story set in a speculative future that is too close to reality for comfort. Highly recommended. #TheWaitingRooms #BookTwitter

18mth since I read #HowToBeBrave It’s a tale that touched me deeply and has stayed with me, in such detail, ever since. At last, tomorrow, I get to immerse myself in the stage version. I cannot wait to see it brought to life. Tissues at the ready 💙 @41monkgate @LouiseWriter

Thank you to @LNER for acting on my Tweet last night re the anti-social behaviour/hate speech on my train from King's Cross to Leeds. Especially to Train Manager Paul, who was a star, & the British Transport Police who removed a passenger at Doncaster. A🧵on safety on trains 1/8

Happy publication day to @LouiseWriter and #LightsOut! Delighted to have a new addition to my favourite bookshelf 🔦 Hope it’s an awesome day celebrating!

The only problem with pre-ordering a book is that long wait for publication! I quite literally bounced into @ImaginedThings today when I heard it had arrived a couple of days early. What a beauty 🔦 #LightsOut @LouiseWriter

Fewer high-pressure exams. More focus on preparing you for life beyond school. Less anxiety, fear, burnout and overwhelm. More space for joy. More freedom to explore and make mistakes. More room for mental health and wellbeing. These are urgent changes that we are asking the Government to make.

It's a year today since my novel In Little Stars was published in paperback. So here's a🧵about why your best books aren't always your bestselling ones. I think it's the best novel I've ever written, it's certainly the one I'm proudest of. And it's got the best reader ratings 1/8

Happy 1st birthday to #InLittleStars - one of my books of 2023 and probably of all time. A cleverly written, hard-hitting story of first love within a society where prejudice rears its ugly head. Tackling issues so close to home, this book made me sob. But there can be hope.

Putting a stamp on the weekend! @JamieChadwick secures her first career win at the #GPRoadAmerica. #INDYNXT // @AndrettiIndy

Look who I just spotted in The Works, Harrogate! I only noticed you peeping down at me from the top shelf, @LouiseWriter, just after I’d casually moved you from the back to the front of the shelf closer to eye level…! #EighteenSeconds #BookTwitter

For anyone looking for LGBTQ books to read during pride month, here’s what I read last year. Have you read any of them? Any must-reads that you’d add?