David Long

Was discharged from hospital hours before the launch of my latest, TRACKS THROUGH TIME. Sore but steadily improving.

I left it too late for my two, sadly - now in their mid-20s - but you go for it.

1980-83. Hard to believe we were paid to learn.

Jake Wallis Simon’s NEVER AGAIN

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.

Also her default position was to be nice to people she met which is quite unusual.

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.)

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.

Unreadable nonsense. Very mid-2020s. Bang on trend.

The interior is exceptional.

Only in Scotiand, which is a week ahead with this.

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

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...

And this - the greatest buried treasure story ever.

Also these:

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.

Children’s Britannica. (I’m 64.)

Do visit the church that hosts his empty tomb, Copford in Essex, which is remarkable.

3 nonfiction 2 fiction

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.)

They could just read a book. www.davidlong.info

Kubla Khan.

@leughleabhar.bsky.social Genuinely so pleased that two of my books will be coming out in Gaelic next year.

#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.

Air Force One has taken off.

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,...

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…

#OTD in 1830 the death of William Huskisson MP who was hit by a train and is now remembered as the world's first ever railway fatality. The accident horrified the public but dramatically increased interest in and awareness of this new-fangled technology and its potential for the future.

Black Sea by Neal Ascherson.

I understand that, completely, but it’s sad to have to make that choice.

We pointed out that we received only the minimum grant but this didn’t help…

My sons, both recent graduates, find it literally incredible that my wife and I who met at university in the 1980s were paid to be there.