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David Long
@writerdavidlong.bsky.social
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Blue Peter Book of the Year author. Writes for children and adults, 60+ books translated into 30+ languages. Occasional ghost. Agents: Penny Holroyde and Andrew Lownie. davidlong.info
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David Long @writerdavidlong.bsky.social · 4h
Was discharged from hospital hours before the launch of my latest, TRACKS THROUGH TIME. Sore but steadily improving.
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David Long @writerdavidlong.bsky.social · 4h
I left it too late for my two, sadly - now in their mid-20s - but you go for it.
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David Long @writerdavidlong.bsky.social · 4h
1980-83. Hard to believe we were paid to learn.
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David Long @writerdavidlong.bsky.social · 20h
Jake Wallis Simon’s NEVER AGAIN
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David Long @writerdavidlong.bsky.social · 3d
My latest book, a series of engaging and informative true stories, is published on Thursday.It is beautifully illustrated by two very talented collaborators, and available to order now.
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David Long @writerdavidlong.bsky.social · 3d
Also her default position was to be nice to people she met which is quite unusual.
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David Long @writerdavidlong.bsky.social · 4d
Dyslexia Awareness Week starts TODAY and
to get things rolling lovely publisher barringtonstoke.bsky.social is offering a 20% website discount on all of its books including my own. (All are written with reluctant readers in mind, not just dyslexics.)
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David Long @writerdavidlong.bsky.social · 4d
100% but first you’ll need a clear idea of the book before any reputable agent will sign you. I’d like to see a book written to interest 9-14s in studying engineering.
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David Long @writerdavidlong.bsky.social · 5d
Unreadable nonsense. Very mid-2020s. Bang on trend.
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David Long @writerdavidlong.bsky.social · 10d
The interior is exceptional.
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David Long @writerdavidlong.bsky.social · 11d
Only in Scotiand, which is a week ahead with this.
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CILIP @cilip.bsky.social · 11d
Rachel Reeves pledges a library in every primary school in England. Here at CILIP we hope that means trained library staff too #GreatSchoolLibraries
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Rachel Reeves pledges a library in every primary school in England
Exclusive: Chancellor also set to unveil plans to get young people back into work in party conference speech
www.theguardian.com
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David Long @writerdavidlong.bsky.social · 11d
And this - the greatest buried treasure story ever.
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David Long @writerdavidlong.bsky.social · 11d
Also these:
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David Long @writerdavidlong.bsky.social · 11d
Attn. Scots! It's Dyslexia Awareness Week (29 September – 5 October) and to kick things off @barringtonstoke.bsky.social is offering a 20% website discount - on all its books not just my own.
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David Long @writerdavidlong.bsky.social · 12d
Children’s Britannica. (I’m 64.)
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David Long @writerdavidlong.bsky.social · 12d
Do visit the church that hosts his empty tomb, Copford in Essex, which is remarkable.
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David Long @writerdavidlong.bsky.social · 14d
3 nonfiction 2 fiction
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David Long @writerdavidlong.bsky.social · 16d
Authors, academics, anyone who writes professionally, needs to sign up to
@alcs.co.uk
now to get their fair share of royalties. (Today is the day for anyone who already did this.)
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David Long @writerdavidlong.bsky.social · 17d
They could just read a book. www.davidlong.info
David Long | AUTHOR
David Long, a writer and journalist since graduating in the 1980s, his work has appeared in the Sunday Times and its magazine, in the Sunday Mirror andthe London Evening Standard. Whilst a columnist ...
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David Long @writerdavidlong.bsky.social · 17d
Kubla Khan.
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David Long @writerdavidlong.bsky.social · 21d
@leughleabhar.bsky.social Genuinely so pleased that two of my books will be coming out in Gaelic next year.
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David Long @writerdavidlong.bsky.social · 21d
#OTD in 1940 Witold Pilecki allowed himself to be captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to gather information which he later smuggled out of the camp. His truly remarkable story is one of more than 30 extraordinary real-life adventures I was thrilled to recount in this book.
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David Long @writerdavidlong.bsky.social · 21d
Air Force One has taken off.
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Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 22d
Well-received by reviewers and readers alike, David Long’s engaging, imaginative and well-informed books reflect an unquenchable thirst for those events and personalities that illuminate the past. These have been translated into more than two dozen languages and won multiple awards. An author and…
David Long – Author Q&A
Well-received by reviewers and readers alike, David Long’s engaging, imaginative and well-informed books reflect an unquenchable thirst for those events and personalities that illuminate the past. These have been translated into more than two dozen languages and won multiple awards. An author and writer since leaving a first class university with a second class degree,...
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