Andrew McAleer

[Scene is MCcDONALDS PICKUP POINT but for the most part we can only see the close up faces of tha CUSTOMER and the McDONALDS EMPLOYEE at the serving point]. 1 CUSTOMER: Hi - I’m afraid this isn’t what I ordered 2 McDONALDS EMPLOYEE: Number 187? CUSTOMER: Yes 3 CUSTOMER: Maybe I pressed the wrong thing? I just ordered one strawberry milkshake. 4 EMPLOYEE: Oh - yeah sorry 5 EMPLOYEE: The milkshake machine’s not working. 6 EMPLOYEE: The only flavours we can do are vanilla, banana, and Labour Leader Pretending to be Nigel Farage. 7 CUSTOMER: Is that a new flavour? EMPLOYEE: Yeah 8 [We now see that the employee has placed a gigantic milkshake cup on the counter] EMPLOYEE: If you look inside, there’s a Labour leader pretending to be Nigel Farage. 9 [Customer looks inside the cup] 10 [Show Keir Starmer dressed as Nigel Farage inside the cup] CUSTOMER: So there is 11 CUSTOMER: Is that something people want, then? EMPLOYEE: No! No, not at all. 12 EMPLOYEE: It just keeps happening when we press banana. [ends]

why can they not just fix it

Robinson Psychology buys Peter Meades' book on men's mental health Robinson Psychology has acquired I’m Fine (But Not Really): What Men Need to Know, Without Going to Therapy by Dr Peter Meades.

Exciting news! www.thebookseller.com/rights/robin...

The beautiful blue and gold cover for my book It's Not A Bloody Trend: Understanding Life as an ADHD Adult. At the top, there's a quote from Bryony Gordon: "An incisive, brilliantly written and - above all - deeply comforting book."

Hello! For ADHD Awareness Month, the bionic text eBook of 'It's Not a Bloody Trend' is down to £2.99.

If you find you have trouble with your eyes sliding off words, bionic text is a wonderful innovation that makes it much, much easier to read a book: www.amazon.co.uk/Its-Not-Bloo...

I’ve just discovered your alt text descriptions. Magnificent. Need to up my game.

Hello from ADHD me who was just idly wondering when the paperback edition of It’s Not a Bloody Trend was coming out (I’ve been away) and blow me, it’s TODAY! With a lovely new quote from Bryony Gordon and everything! Thank you so much to Andrew and everyone at Robinson and Millie at United Agents!

Cover image of It's Not a Bloody Trend by Kat Brown with endorsement by Bryony Gordon.

It's #ADHDAwarenessMonth and one very good way to become more aware is to read It's Not a Bloody Trend, by @katbrownwrites.com, which is out in paperback this very day - retailer links here: www.hachette.co.uk/titles/kat-b...

Have you seen they have been filming the sequel in the UK? In a new estate that weirdly looks like New England just behind the dump near my parents' house. Lots of excitement on my local Facebook group about Sandra B being spotted.

Picuture showing forthcoming book, called 'Keep your hair on: understanding urges to pick, pull and bite' by Clare Mackay, which will be launched in April 2026

Big news!

I loved researching and writing this book, which is all about shedding the shame, and getting really curious about urges to pick, pull and bite.

I can't wait to share it with you! It's out on April 2nd, and is available to pre-order now.

#bfrb #bfrbs #bodyfocusedrepetitivebehaviors

THE HYPOCRISY IS THE POINT!!

How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past Buy How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders

Good morning everyone!
So, I wrote a book (!!) and it’s coming out November 4th in physical and audiobook form. It’s called *How to Change a Memory*

www.amazon.com/How-Change-M...

Inspirational quote about the shortness of life from 'Holding the Heavy Stuff' by Ben Sedley, with an illustration of an eggtimer, and the book cover.

We published the brilliant 'Holding the Heavy Stuff' this summer - an illustrated guide to acceptance and commitment therapy.

No One Talks About This Stuff No One Talks About This Stuff is a support group for almost-parents. A place to share their journeys of loss and limbo, to confront social pressure and to fi...

Preorder links here if you'd like a copy, or for a friend – and, as always, you can order it from your library! littlebrown.co.uk/titles/kat-b...

Brown added of the Unbound situation: “I’m in a WhatsApp group with 88 other ex-Unbound/Boundless authors, all of whom have felt utterly sick at the thought of letting down everyone who supported our books.” She added that “there are so many brilliant ideas waiting to be picked up from Unbound authors… all backed by hundreds of readers.”

One day I won't feel physically unwell because of Unbound/Boundless, but until that time, here's the Publishers Weekly piece on it which is causing Some Chat in the authors group. The authors group filled with brilliant books, ideas, and writers. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Yay, lovely to see this covered in The Bookseller. We re-publish this brilliant anthology tomorrow!

A golden retriever lies on the floor like a melancholy dishcloth. Her comfortable bed lies slightly away from her but no! She spurns comforts! Only hard floor.

I am also delighted to say I've just signed with Robinson to publish No One Talks About This Stuff. Robinson publishes It's Not a Bloody Trend and are a dream to work with. I am so excited for NOTATS to have a proper life given all the Unbound horrors. As you can see, Sybil is very supportive 🙄

It means a lot that Reading Well has books on dealing with loss. It's something that many parents experience. It's also why No One Talks About This Stuff is deliberately intersectional: grief and loss don't exist in a vacuum. They are informed by who you are. It's a support group in a book.

A picture of my book No One Talks About This Stuff: Twenty-Two Stories of Almost Parenthood, which has been chosen for the Reading Well parenting list and will feature in 750 libraries around the UK.

Some lovely news. Accessibility means a lot to me with my books so I'm really thrilled that my anthology No One Talks About This Stuff has been chosen for @readingagency’s new #ReadingWell for Families booklist! Now available to borrow for free from libraries. readingagency.org.uk/get-reading/...

Pope Tim Tams VI

Me and Karyma Ellis, the founder of Makes Sense to Me, grinning cheerfully while I brandish a copy of my book

In cheering news, if you’re near Moorgate, you must pop into Makes Sense to Me’s bookshop pop-up at 120. (Inside the Barclays.)

Karyma Ellis specialises in neurodiversity and sells books and fidgets for kids, teens and adults - really really lovely! makessensetome.co.uk/pages/events-1

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Whilst I wholeheartedly agree, worth skipping to Ed and James's postmortem in the last five minutes. Very funny.

With gratitude to
@drrachelgibbons
for raising awareness #Hope #ItsOkayToTalk #MentalHealthAwareness #Support

Cover image of 'It's Not a Bloody Trend' by Kat Brown, now just 99p on Kindle for all of March 2025. Picture also features a selection of endorsements of the book.

'It's Not a Bloody Trend: Understanding Life as an ADHD Adult' by @katbrownwrites.com is just 99p on Kindle for the whole of March. An ideal time to snap this up if you haven't already.

It's Not A Bloody Trend: Understanding Life as an ADHD Adult It's Not A Bloody Trend: Understanding Life as an ADHD Adult eBook : Brown, Kat: Amazon.co.uk: Books

It’s Not a Bloody Trend is a 99p Kindle deal throughout March if you’re looking for an accessible book about ADHD adult diagnosis - lots of people I haven’t paid and do not know have told me its funny, helpful and informative, which really surprised my mum. www.amazon.co.uk/Its-Not-Bloo...

He had a chat that had been running for four months. It was endless pages and pages...

My dad had the same issue, they randomly decided to make his 'blueyonder' email address defunct: 'just set up a new email address to fix it'. I managed to get him back him but he'd spent months going back and forth to customer services, how do Virgin expect people in their 80s to cope with this?

These books will be invaluable for young people, parents, and clinicians. I highly recommend them for anyone struggling with these very common difficulties

Wonderful to see the launch of these two fantastic evidence based guides for teenagers relating to social anxiety and eating/body image worries. Congratulations to all the authors 👏👏
@littlebrown.bsky.social

Still 99p on Kindle!