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The Puffin Book of Big Dreams

A new anthology, THE PUFFIN BOOK OF BIG DREAMS, is published today to celebrate 80 years of Puffin, the children’s imprint of Penguin Books. It includes new work by many terrific writers for young people, including a new piece that

Readings

There’ll be more festival events and readings when the pandemic is over!

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Twitter

I've read two terrific 2021 Irish debuts this week that will, I hope, find a wide audience: @Louise_Nealon's novel SNOWFLAKE (May) & @stephentwalsh's short stories SHINE/VARIANCE (July). Damn these new writers pushing the rest of us off bookshop shelvesπŸ˜‚πŸ“šπŸ˜‚ pic.twitter.com/myORbUauHF

About 8 hours ago from John Boyne πŸ“š's Twitter