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Piu DasGupta 🐒🐍💫 @piudg.bsky.social · 1d

Adventure awaits! The next book in the Snakestone Cycle, The Golden Monkey Mystery, is out in January 2026!

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Piu DasGupta 🐒🐍💫 @piudg.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you so much Sarah 🥰

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Sarah Todd Taylor @sarahtoddtaylor.bsky.social · 1d

This is going to be amazing! Piu crafted such an incredibly rich story in The Secret of the Snakestone and I can't wait for the next adventure.

Piu DasGupta 🐒🐍💫 @piudg.bsky.social · 1d

Adventure awaits! The next book in the Snakestone Cycle, The Golden Monkey Mystery, is out in January 2026!

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Piu DasGupta 🐒🐍💫 @piudg.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Soph! 🙏

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Soph Montgomery @sjmontgomery.bsky.social · 1d

Exciting, and such a pretty cover too! Congrats Piu 😊

Piu DasGupta 🐒🐍💫 @piudg.bsky.social · 1d

Adventure awaits! The next book in the Snakestone Cycle, The Golden Monkey Mystery, is out in January 2026!

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Piu DasGupta 🐒🐍💫 @piudg.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Jacqui cant wait for you to read it! 😍

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Jacqui Sydney 📚 @jacquisydney.bsky.social · 1d

Loved Book 1 and cannot wait to read this! 🤩

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Piu DasGupta 🐒🐍💫 @piudg.bsky.social · 1d

Adventure awaits! The next book in the Snakestone Cycle, The Golden Monkey Mystery, is out in January 2026!

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Piu DasGupta 🐒🐍💫 @piudg.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks so much Gita! 🥰

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Gita Ralleigh @gitaralleigh.bsky.social · 1d

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Piu DasGupta 🐒🐍💫 @piudg.bsky.social · 1d

Adventure awaits! The next book in the Snakestone Cycle, The Golden Monkey Mystery, is out in January 2026!

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Piu DasGupta 🐒🐍💫 @piudg.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks so much Louie! 🥰

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 1d

I am so so excited for this!!!! LOVED Snakestone. Bring this on yes please big portions

Piu DasGupta 🐒🐍💫 @piudg.bsky.social · 1d

Adventure awaits! The next book in the Snakestone Cycle, The Golden Monkey Mystery, is out in January 2026!

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Piu DasGupta 🐒🐍💫 @piudg.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks so much Gabby! Can’t wait for you to read it 🤩

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Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 1d

Secret of the Snakestone is the book I wanted when I was 10 (and 49). That this is coming to start the year of my 50th is the BEST present!!

Piu DasGupta 🐒🐍💫 @piudg.bsky.social · 1d

Adventure awaits! The next book in the Snakestone Cycle, The Golden Monkey Mystery, is out in January 2026!

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Piu DasGupta 🐒🐍💫 @piudg.bsky.social · 1d

Adventure awaits! The next book in the Snakestone Cycle, The Golden Monkey Mystery, is out in January 2026!

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · Aug 29

I have a book out in two weeks. So....one repost of this and I'll drop one fact/spoiler/detail about the book. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social www.walker.co.uk/978152951581...

Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Causing Chaos - Walker Books

PRE-ORDER NOW! THE BRAND-NEW HILARIOUS DOODLE-PACKED DIARY IN THE BESTSELLING LOKI SERIES.‘Tom Gates and Wimpy Kid fans need look no further than this laug...

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Lisa J Allen @lisajallen.bsky.social · Aug 19

Excited to receive our copy of the Northern Gravy Anthology for Young Readers, featuring lots of fab #kidlituk & #YA poems & stories from brilliant northern writers, including @finlaysonpalmer.bsky.social, @attielime.bsky.social, @piudg.bsky.social, @bardymum.bsky.social and many more!!! #bookpost

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · Aug 14

Some Loki news: I'll be at The Paper Cat bookshop to do school events on sept 16th and, while there, will be signing/personalising/doodling/stamping etc copies of Loki book 5. If you would like one of these, order here! www.papercatbookshop.co.uk/products/lok... @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social #UKKidlit

Pre-Order Signed & Dedicated: Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Causing Chaos

Publishes 4th September 2025 - This purchase can be signed and dedicated to a child of your choice. PLEASE NOTE: Louie is coming to The Paper Cat to sign and dedicate your orders after publication - ...

www.papercatbookshop.co.uk

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Sinéad O'Hart @sineadohart.bsky.social · Jul 16

Delighted to share the cover of my new book, Ellora McGee, Trainee Banshee: The New School! Art by @unawoods.bsky.social, pub Gill Books, Sept 4th. Ellora's just started at a new school, and it's hard to keep her budding banshee powers secret. But what if they're about to save the day? 📚🇮🇪💫

Cover of a children's book, white and green background colours. Foreground shows an illustrated child with long dark braids wearing a grey hoodie, black and white dotted leggings, with wings on her back. In the background is a tall, wobbly, tumbledown building. Title Ellora McGee, Trainee Banshee: The New School appears above her head. Author's name Sinéad O'Hart appears beneath her feet, and beneath that again is the illustrator's name, Úna Woods.

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Helen Peters @helenpeters.bsky.social · Jul 6

Last chance to book! ⬇️
Join me at Finchley Church End Library on Sat 12th July at 11am. Writing tips, Q&A, and an interactive WW2 mystery to solve!
Find out the inspiration behind Friends and Traitors and crack an MI5 cold case!
Ages 7 up.
Book tickets at t.co/6Tk6pEryy6

@nosycrow.bsky.social

Copy of children’s mystery book Friends and Traitors, magnifying glass, pen, London A-Z, torch, coded message.

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Piu DasGupta 🐒🐍💫 @piudg.bsky.social · Jul 5

Wow! What an amazing display! ☠️ 🖤

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TKA Library @tkalibrary.bsky.social · Jul 2

Today we welcomed our new Year 7 pupils to school for Transition Day and transported the library to the Catacombs of Paris to introduce our Summer Reading Challenge... @piudg.bsky.social @nosycrow.bsky.social @thekingstonacademy.org

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Christopher Edge @christopheredge.bsky.social · Jun 14

I can't wait to bring my ESCAPE ROOM: GAME ZERO event to @barneskidslitfest.bsky.social next Saturday and you can get your tickets for this here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/christophe...

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · Jun 16

I will be at Barnes festival NEXT SUNDAY! Come see me and Loki! Tickets here! www.eventbrite.com/checkout-ext... #KidLitUK @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social

Eventbrite | Louie Stowell

Eventbrite brings people together through live experiences. Discover events that match your passions, or create your own with online ticketing tools.

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Christopher Edge @christopheredge.bsky.social · Jun 6

Checking the @thebookseller.com Children's chart and if just 9,498 of you could pop into your favourite bookshop this week to pick up a copy of ESCAPE ROOM: GAME ZERO, I might have a chance of achieving my childhood dream of appearing on Top of the Pops AND Jackanory! linktr.ee/edgechristop...

The Bookseller children's chart and a copy of ESCAPE ROOM: GAME ZERO.

If a book hits the #1 spot in the chart, the author is invited onto a special mash-up edition of Top of the Pops and Jackanory to read the first chapter live accompanied by a dance routine from Pan's People.

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SF Layzell @sflayzell.bsky.social · Apr 12

Contemplating last weekend's book haul from Word on the Water where I finally picked up a copy of Secrets of the Snakestone by @piudg.bsky.social 🐍

A postcard showing a bookshop on a boat, a copy of Secrets of the Snakestone with a black snake on an orange background, Feast While You Can by Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta, and an Atlas of Tolkien by David Day

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Curtis Brown Creative @cbcreative.bsky.social · Mar 6

@piudg.bsky.social discussed the setting that inspired her story and the best piece of advice she received while studying with us. Her book #SecretsOfTheSnakestone has been shortlisted for the 2025 Waterstones Children's Book Prize!

Read the interview here:

Piu DasGupta on Writing | Author Interview

Piu DasGupta studied on our three-month Writing YA & Children’s Fiction course in 2020. Her debut middle grade book Secrets of the Snakestone is out today with Nosy Crow and has recently featured as the Times Children’s Book of the Week. We spoke to Piu about the setting which inspired her story and the best piece of advice she received whilst studying with us.

www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk

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