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Nadia Shireen

@nadiashireen.bsky.social
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Writer and illustrator of silly things.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 20h
I despise seeing what’s really going on stuffed into a “but critics say” clause.
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 21h
I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.
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Nadia Shireen @nadiashireen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Out today!
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Big up Johnny Marr
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...
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Jonathan Roberts @jonrob5000.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Rhys Thomas hanging on by the skin of his teeth to not fully corpse. Quite a feat when faced by Felix Dexter in full flow
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Nadia Shireen @nadiashireen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
My entire personality.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If "legitimate concerns" were considered to excuse illegitimate methods, then nobody from Just Stop Oil or Palestine Action would have been arrested. So we know it doesn't. In fact that phrase is only ever used in one context. Only in that context is uniformed mob intimidation "peaceful protest"
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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Are we going to get the 200 articles on James Orr then? Maybe read and interrogate the footnotes of his doctoral thesis? Is Cambridge going to have to issue out statements about its hiring standards?
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Nadia Shireen @nadiashireen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I went to this last night and it was great. Recommended.
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Pete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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“Even a canon that contains Jolene, I Will Always Love You, Coat Of Many Colors and The Bargain Store, can’t quite account for the outpouring of love.”  | Pete Paphides
In 1973, Dolly Parton can’t possibly have known what was lying ahead of her when she broke free from Porter Wagoner. Six years had elapsed s
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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 22/08/2026
Stand by Me was released 40 years ago today 🤍
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Nadia Shireen @nadiashireen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Very very very happy that Adam Buxton is reading the audiobook for Grimwood 6: The Fast and the Furriest. He commits to the lunacy and silly voices like nobody else. Out Sept 10th.
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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Hey I think I've gained some followers for autism related reasons, so here's a reminder that I wrote a chapter book with a creative autistic protagonist that centers her experience of finding the world a very good place for her, absolutely just the way she is www.vivianeschwarz.co.uk/books/maud-i...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
NEW: It was a digital lynching. And the media is never going to hold itself to account for the role it played in Jason Arday’s death. But there are things we can do. This is a practical guide based on my own experience. broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-digital-...
broligarchy.substack.com
A Digital Lynching
A practical guide for individuals and organisations when the mobs gather
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This was such an incredible moment
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
From this review- “Think of all the diligent, decent black academics who have been lumbered with the embarrassment of having Arday as a figurehead” - no, think of *why* black academics are held collectively responsible in ways that white academics are not
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Nadia Shireen @nadiashireen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I’m in Edinburgh and it’s a civilised 20 degrees 🙌🏾 If you’re also up here then pls do come along to my thingy on Sunday if you like x
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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
David Bowie wore the famous zig-zag ‘lightning bolt’ face make-up just once: for the Aladdin Sane album cover shoot in January 1973. Just that one time.
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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Yes lockdown was really tough for kids. Lots of those kids are teenagers now so maybe as a thank you our establishments could stop deliberately making even more things worse for them due to a weird systemic hatred of our own youth
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
🤯 THIS SATURDAY! GOSH COMICS! (Berwick Street, London). Come down and meet a host of brilliant comic artists, get things signed, etc etc. I don’t think it’s ticketed so you can just turn up (with so many brill artists though, I suspect it might be busy!) Timings below! 👇
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Ok, it's time for Finally Read The Longread Tabs I Have Open Sunday! This one's a LONG one...the edcuation select committee report on reading for pleasure. publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5902/cm...
publications.parliament.uk
Reading for Pleasure
Report of the Education Committee
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Nadia Shireen @nadiashireen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
And I’ll be at @waterstoneskids.bsky.social Piccadilly on Sunday if your kids fancy a drawing session! You can get tix here: www.waterstones.com/events/comic...
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Nadia Shireen @nadiashireen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
If the summer holiday boredom has already hit, I am on telly tmoz doing a drawalong. So that’ll be five mins accounted for at least
I’ll be on Go Get Arty on CBBC this Friday. So this is a pic of me holding up a drawing
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
As a queer children's author, this is a deeply unsettling trend. www.thebookseller.com/news/lgbtq-a...
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LGBTQ+ authors see rise in cancellations of school visits after 'complaints from parents'
Authors of books featuring same-sex families, gay characters and other LGBTQ+ themes have told The Bookseller they have had school speaking events cancelled, or pupils withdrawn, amid complaints from ...
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Emily Hamilton-Sanders @hamiltonsanders.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
📦Just finished "What's That Noise?" by Charlie Higson, illustrated by @nadiashireen.bsky.social. This book is a delightfully silly picture book with fantastic read-aloud rhythm, hilarious visual humor, and a wonderful celebration of imagination and creative play. 🎉 @simonkids.bsky.social #KidLit
Bright blue book cover featuring a large cardboard box surrounded by a monkey, fox, ghost, black cat, and yellow car. A pair of eyes peers from a hole in the box. The title What’s That Noise? appears above in large black and pink lettering.
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Nadia Shireen @nadiashireen.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Finished the artwork for my next picture book last week, and there’s a very deliberate nod to Sam Neill throughout which tickled me. So sad it’ll now be a posthumous tribute. What a cool and brilliant guy.
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Prince Charles Cinema @princecharlescinema.com · 13/07/2026
Sam Neill (1947-2026) ❤️
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Revy but spoopy @catgirlfingies.quest · 23/06/2026
Just sharing this again at a time of what's happening in Australia. In Event Horizon Sam Neill requested that the Australian flag on his character's uniform remove the Union Flag from the corner & for it to be replaced with the Aboriginal flag, the way he thought it should look in 2047
Sam Neill in the movie Event Horizon.
Wearing a flag patch that has the Australian flag but thr union jack is removed to have the Aboriginal flag in its place
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 06/07/2026
why are people only ever described as "no-nonsense", what if you're a nonsense person, what then
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Nadia Shireen @nadiashireen.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Congratulations to the new Children’s Laureate, @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social! We were lucky enough to chat with her on @islandofbrilliant.bsky.social… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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BookTrust @booktrust.org.uk · 07/07/2026
🥳 We are delighted to announce that the brand new Waterstones #ChildrensLaureate 2026-2028 is the marvellous @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social We're so excited that Patrice is taking on the role and love that she will be focusing on how stories can help to build communities. #NationalYearOfReading2026
Patrice Lawrence Waterstones Children's Laureate 2026-28
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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
“I am the most verbally and physically attacked public figure or politician of modern times.” The disgraceful Nigel Farage. Remembering Labour MP Jo Cox, born 1974, murdered 2016.
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Nadia Shireen @nadiashireen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The new Waterstones Children’s Laureate is being announced VERY soon… follow @booktrust.org.uk for updates. And they will be on a special episode of our podcast @islandofbrilliant.bsky.social soon after! Will @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social give up his crown without a fight?
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The combination of the keeper's sad fucked-it-all-up face and the commentator saying "Goooooooooaaaaaal" for like an hour is extremely funny
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Gita Ralleigh @gitaralleigh.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
July is #SouthAsianHeritageMonth And as always I am here for the books: #booksky #kidlituk #ukkidlit #southasianheritagemonth uk.bookshop.org/lists/south-...
Covers of:
Free to be Me Smriti Halls & Nila Aye
Super Uma Rashmi Sirdeshpande & Nakul P
You be You Chitra Soundar & Sophie Bass
Nadia Islam on the Record Adiba Jaigirdar
Vanya and the Wild Hunt Sangu Mandanna
Escape from the Child Snatchers Sufiya Ahmed
Witch Light Zohra Nabi
Dream Hunters: The Night Curse Nazima Pathan
The Night I Borrowed Time Iqbal Hussain
Bad Queer Gayathiri Kamalakanthan
Your Murder Next Ravena GuronStrange Girls Sarvat Hasin
We Dance With Demons Vaishnavi Patel
Leave and Come Back Lavanya Lakshmi
The Complex Karan Mahajan 
Belgrave Road Manish Chauhan 
Wimmy Road Boyz Sufiyaan Salam
Good People Patmena Sabit 
Under Water Tara Menon
The Last Of Earth Deepa Anappara
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Nadia Shireen @nadiashireen.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
My first *proper* tape from the shops
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Justin Myers @theguyliner.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
ICON.
Dame Penelope Keith as Margo Leadbetter in The Good Life, sitting on a sun lounger, smoking a cigarette in a zany patterned dress.
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David Lynch's Worlds @davidlynchsworlds.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Happy 9th anniversary to #TwinPeaks Part 8: #DavidLynch @markfrost.bsky.social
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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Quite shocked - and a little ticked off - that @theguardian.com with its large book section has had zero coverage of the @carnegiemedals.bsky.social Kids books are a HUGE part of the industry, and the Carnegie is essentially our Booker. What’s up with that, @theguardian.com ?
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Every single humans rights org — including Israeli ones — have been telling the same story. Given that Israel still bars journalists entry to Gaza, which in itself is bonkers, how about we trust any or all human rights orgs. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Nadia Shireen @nadiashireen.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It’s a great day to buy knitwear
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Jacqui Sydney 📚 @jacquisydney.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Gorgeous picture book post today in the form of The Tour at School (Because You’re the New Kid) by Katie Clapham & @nadiashireen.bsky.social Out 02/07 for 4+ readers, huge thanks go to Lizzie @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social #KidlitUK #UKKidlit
The book, the cover of which shows 2 cartoon figures - on the left is a girl with brown skin, black plaits and red glasses wearing a red pinafore dress over a long-sleeved pink top jumping for joy. On the right is a shy-looking figure with brown skin wearing a zipped-up turquoise coat with its hood up.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Know what TV show actually wouldn’t get made today? The Twilight Zone. Half of these fuckin’ episodes are about fascism.
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Frank Cottrell-Boyce @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
It turns out that when I'm made to look serious I look a bit like Red Cloud. observer.co.uk/culture/inte...
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Frank Cottrell-Boyce: ‘We’ve treated a generation of chil...
The children’s laureate has spent two years visiting schools, libraries, prisons and communities to discover how Britain’s young people live now. He sets out what we are losing from childhood and expl...
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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
BBC: “So what advice did David Hockney give to you?” BBC Guest: “Fuck everyone.”
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