Philip Reeve
@philipreeve.bsky.social
Author of Utterly Dark, Railhead, Mortal Engines: co-author (with Sarah McIntyre) of Adventuremice, Pugs of the Frozen North etc. My short film Gwenevere is now on YouTube.
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Philip Reeve
@philipreeve.bsky.social
· Nov 17
👋 Hello new followers! As well as writing books I occasionally make films. Here’s the first, ‘Gwenevere’ a 30-min Arthurian epic full of Dartmoor landscapes and low-budget magic. Starring @laurafrancesmartin.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e2K...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e2K...
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🎥 LIGHTS, CAMERA, DARTMOOR! Get ready for film night at The Bookery!
🎬 Did you know that @philipreeve.bsky.social, bestselling author of Mortal Engines, Utterly Dark and Adventuremice, also directs FILMS with his wife Sarah Reeve? 🧵 ⬇️
🎬 Did you know that @philipreeve.bsky.social, bestselling author of Mortal Engines, Utterly Dark and Adventuremice, also directs FILMS with his wife Sarah Reeve? 🧵 ⬇️
November 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
🎥 LIGHTS, CAMERA, DARTMOOR! Get ready for film night at The Bookery!
🎬 Did you know that @philipreeve.bsky.social, bestselling author of Mortal Engines, Utterly Dark and Adventuremice, also directs FILMS with his wife Sarah Reeve? 🧵 ⬇️
🎬 Did you know that @philipreeve.bsky.social, bestselling author of Mortal Engines, Utterly Dark and Adventuremice, also directs FILMS with his wife Sarah Reeve? 🧵 ⬇️
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'Adventuremice: Mousehole to the Centre of the Earth', the seventh in our highly-illustrated series, is out now!
Available at all good bookshops!
🐭🐭✍️✍️
@philipreeve.bsky.social
@dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social
Available at all good bookshops!
🐭🐭✍️✍️
@philipreeve.bsky.social
@dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
'Adventuremice: Mousehole to the Centre of the Earth', the seventh in our highly-illustrated series, is out now!
Available at all good bookshops!
🐭🐭✍️✍️
@philipreeve.bsky.social
@dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social
Available at all good bookshops!
🐭🐭✍️✍️
@philipreeve.bsky.social
@dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social
‘Adventuremice: Mousehole to the Centre of the Earth’ is out today. Our 7th Adventuremice book features ptiny pterodactyls, the fearsome Hamstersaurus rex, miniature Doug McClure-type shenanigans, and lots & lots of lovely @jabberworks illustrations! 🐭🦖🐭🦖
October 9, 2025 at 9:39 AM
‘Adventuremice: Mousehole to the Centre of the Earth’ is out today. Our 7th Adventuremice book features ptiny pterodactyls, the fearsome Hamstersaurus rex, miniature Doug McClure-type shenanigans, and lots & lots of lovely @jabberworks illustrations! 🐭🦖🐭🦖
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Bath Kids Lit Fest managed to get early copies of our new book, ‘Adventuremice: Mousehole to the Centre of the Earth’!
I’ve only had my one author copy and it’s SO NICE to see a bunch of them all together ☺️
@philipreeve.bsky.social @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social
I’ve only had my one author copy and it’s SO NICE to see a bunch of them all together ☺️
@philipreeve.bsky.social @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Bath Kids Lit Fest managed to get early copies of our new book, ‘Adventuremice: Mousehole to the Centre of the Earth’!
I’ve only had my one author copy and it’s SO NICE to see a bunch of them all together ☺️
@philipreeve.bsky.social @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social
I’ve only had my one author copy and it’s SO NICE to see a bunch of them all together ☺️
@philipreeve.bsky.social @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social
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Playing Spot-the-Famous-Children’s-Book-Creator at Bath Kids Lit Fest:
So far, it’s @philipreeve.bsky.social , AF Steadman & @huwaaron.bsky.social … wahey! ✨✨✨
Event today at The Guildhall at 1:00!
So far, it’s @philipreeve.bsky.social , AF Steadman & @huwaaron.bsky.social … wahey! ✨✨✨
Event today at The Guildhall at 1:00!
September 28, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Playing Spot-the-Famous-Children’s-Book-Creator at Bath Kids Lit Fest:
So far, it’s @philipreeve.bsky.social , AF Steadman & @huwaaron.bsky.social … wahey! ✨✨✨
Event today at The Guildhall at 1:00!
So far, it’s @philipreeve.bsky.social , AF Steadman & @huwaaron.bsky.social … wahey! ✨✨✨
Event today at The Guildhall at 1:00!
⬇️Today!⬇️
Bath & Bristol people!📢
Join my co-author Philip Reeve and me THIS SUNDAY, 28 Sept, for Adventuremice story and drawing shenanigans at The Guildhall!
Bring along your sketchbook if you'd like us to have a peek! 🐭🐭
Tickets: bathboxoffice.org.uk/whats-on/bfc...
#BathKidsLitFest
Join my co-author Philip Reeve and me THIS SUNDAY, 28 Sept, for Adventuremice story and drawing shenanigans at The Guildhall!
Bring along your sketchbook if you'd like us to have a peek! 🐭🐭
Tickets: bathboxoffice.org.uk/whats-on/bfc...
#BathKidsLitFest
September 28, 2025 at 8:30 AM
⬇️Today!⬇️
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Bath & Bristol people!📢
Join my co-author Philip Reeve and me THIS SUNDAY, 28 Sept, for Adventuremice story and drawing shenanigans at The Guildhall!
Bring along your sketchbook if you'd like us to have a peek! 🐭🐭
Tickets: bathboxoffice.org.uk/whats-on/bfc...
#BathKidsLitFest
Join my co-author Philip Reeve and me THIS SUNDAY, 28 Sept, for Adventuremice story and drawing shenanigans at The Guildhall!
Bring along your sketchbook if you'd like us to have a peek! 🐭🐭
Tickets: bathboxoffice.org.uk/whats-on/bfc...
#BathKidsLitFest
September 25, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Bath & Bristol people!📢
Join my co-author Philip Reeve and me THIS SUNDAY, 28 Sept, for Adventuremice story and drawing shenanigans at The Guildhall!
Bring along your sketchbook if you'd like us to have a peek! 🐭🐭
Tickets: bathboxoffice.org.uk/whats-on/bfc...
#BathKidsLitFest
Join my co-author Philip Reeve and me THIS SUNDAY, 28 Sept, for Adventuremice story and drawing shenanigans at The Guildhall!
Bring along your sketchbook if you'd like us to have a peek! 🐭🐭
Tickets: bathboxoffice.org.uk/whats-on/bfc...
#BathKidsLitFest
Quick drawings from Pembrokeshire.
September 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Quick drawings from Pembrokeshire.
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Breakfast in the treehouse!
Artwork from my upcoming 7th Adventuremice book with @philipreeve.bsky.social & @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social
The original ink & watercolour paintings from the book will go on sale on the evening of launch day, UK 9pm, Thurs 9 Oct…
If you're interested, mark your diary!
Artwork from my upcoming 7th Adventuremice book with @philipreeve.bsky.social & @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social
The original ink & watercolour paintings from the book will go on sale on the evening of launch day, UK 9pm, Thurs 9 Oct…
If you're interested, mark your diary!
September 19, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Breakfast in the treehouse!
Artwork from my upcoming 7th Adventuremice book with @philipreeve.bsky.social & @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social
The original ink & watercolour paintings from the book will go on sale on the evening of launch day, UK 9pm, Thurs 9 Oct…
If you're interested, mark your diary!
Artwork from my upcoming 7th Adventuremice book with @philipreeve.bsky.social & @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social
The original ink & watercolour paintings from the book will go on sale on the evening of launch day, UK 9pm, Thurs 9 Oct…
If you're interested, mark your diary!
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Your 2026 UKLA Book Awards Longlists are here - the only national children’s book awards judged by teachers!
This year they feature books in translation, past winners, exciting debuts and a huge range of genres and themes.
Click here to see the full Longlists: ukla.org/ukla-book-aw...
This year they feature books in translation, past winners, exciting debuts and a huge range of genres and themes.
Click here to see the full Longlists: ukla.org/ukla-book-aw...
September 16, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Your 2026 UKLA Book Awards Longlists are here - the only national children’s book awards judged by teachers!
This year they feature books in translation, past winners, exciting debuts and a huge range of genres and themes.
Click here to see the full Longlists: ukla.org/ukla-book-aw...
This year they feature books in translation, past winners, exciting debuts and a huge range of genres and themes.
Click here to see the full Longlists: ukla.org/ukla-book-aw...
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You like trains? You like Stargate? How about a galactic civilization connected by sentient trains running on railways that travel through Stargates?
Seriously, go read Railhead. It's great.
Seriously, go read Railhead. It's great.
Celebrating a decade of trainsong, Hive Monks, pocket universes hidden in refreshment trolleys, etc. RAILHEAD is ten years old.
philipreeveblog.blogspot.com/search?q=Rai...
Cover art by @ianmcque.bsky.social
philipreeveblog.blogspot.com/search?q=Rai...
Cover art by @ianmcque.bsky.social
September 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
You like trains? You like Stargate? How about a galactic civilization connected by sentient trains running on railways that travel through Stargates?
Seriously, go read Railhead. It's great.
Seriously, go read Railhead. It's great.
Celebrating a decade of trainsong, Hive Monks, pocket universes hidden in refreshment trolleys, etc. RAILHEAD is ten years old.
philipreeveblog.blogspot.com/search?q=Rai...
Cover art by @ianmcque.bsky.social
philipreeveblog.blogspot.com/search?q=Rai...
Cover art by @ianmcque.bsky.social
September 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Celebrating a decade of trainsong, Hive Monks, pocket universes hidden in refreshment trolleys, etc. RAILHEAD is ten years old.
philipreeveblog.blogspot.com/search?q=Rai...
Cover art by @ianmcque.bsky.social
philipreeveblog.blogspot.com/search?q=Rai...
Cover art by @ianmcque.bsky.social
Beautiful Japanese editions of the first two Adventuremice books by me and @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social.
Translated by Shino Watatani, published by Tokuma Shoten in Tokyo
Translated by Shino Watatani, published by Tokuma Shoten in Tokyo
September 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Beautiful Japanese editions of the first two Adventuremice books by me and @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social.
Translated by Shino Watatani, published by Tokuma Shoten in Tokyo
Translated by Shino Watatani, published by Tokuma Shoten in Tokyo
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Oh my god. I know I talk about it every 10 seconds, but Donut Squad. Those pages at the end made my hands itch for a pencil.
@sarahmcintyre.bsky.social has sooooooo many drawing resources on her website tied to all her and her and @philipreeve.bsky.social's books, it's immense fun.
@sarahmcintyre.bsky.social has sooooooo many drawing resources on her website tied to all her and her and @philipreeve.bsky.social's books, it's immense fun.
August 29, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Oh my god. I know I talk about it every 10 seconds, but Donut Squad. Those pages at the end made my hands itch for a pencil.
@sarahmcintyre.bsky.social has sooooooo many drawing resources on her website tied to all her and her and @philipreeve.bsky.social's books, it's immense fun.
@sarahmcintyre.bsky.social has sooooooo many drawing resources on her website tied to all her and her and @philipreeve.bsky.social's books, it's immense fun.
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For #TolkienTuesday/#TolkienTrewsday, as a follow up to my piece from last week, here’s
“The Gardens of the Merking's palace”, by J.R.R. Tolkien, for his children’s story Roverandom.
“The Gardens of the Merking's palace”, by J.R.R. Tolkien, for his children’s story Roverandom.
August 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
For #TolkienTuesday/#TolkienTrewsday, as a follow up to my piece from last week, here’s
“The Gardens of the Merking's palace”, by J.R.R. Tolkien, for his children’s story Roverandom.
“The Gardens of the Merking's palace”, by J.R.R. Tolkien, for his children’s story Roverandom.
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My new painting exhibition - Brave New Worlds: A Century of Science Fiction Cinema - opens a week today. If you're in the area, do pop along. And please share with interested (and interesting) friends. Today's poster is the first to feature an actor I've worked with: the glorious David Warner.
August 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
My new painting exhibition - Brave New Worlds: A Century of Science Fiction Cinema - opens a week today. If you're in the area, do pop along. And please share with interested (and interesting) friends. Today's poster is the first to feature an actor I've worked with: the glorious David Warner.
[email protected] and I love this show, which is why there’s a character called Scoot McHairy in ‘Mice, Camera, Action!’.
August 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
[email protected] and I love this show, which is why there’s a character called Scoot McHairy in ‘Mice, Camera, Action!’.
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Can folks do me a favor?
I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January.
I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am.
I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics.
Here’s two favorite set photos.
Repost? I am in the wilderness.
I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January.
I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am.
I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics.
Here’s two favorite set photos.
Repost? I am in the wilderness.
August 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Can folks do me a favor?
I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January.
I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am.
I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics.
Here’s two favorite set photos.
Repost? I am in the wilderness.
I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January.
I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am.
I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics.
Here’s two favorite set photos.
Repost? I am in the wilderness.
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#SundayMorningBookChat Have to agree with @hfj0108.bsky.social and nominate the #UtterlyDark trilogy by @philipreeve.bsky.social They are beautifully written and deserve far more attention than they’ve received.
This was my review of final book: vsviewfromthebookshelves.home.blog/2023/09/04/m...
This was my review of final book: vsviewfromthebookshelves.home.blog/2023/09/04/m...
MG Review & Author Q&A: Utterly Dark and the Tides of Time by Philip Reeve, illustrations by Paddy Donnelly
Cover image and inside illustrations by Paddy Donnelly, Publisher David Fickling Books, 7th September 2023 The conclusion of the Utterly Dark trilogy is an adventure woven through with the ancient …
vsviewfromthebookshelves.home.blog
August 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
#SundayMorningBookChat Have to agree with @hfj0108.bsky.social and nominate the #UtterlyDark trilogy by @philipreeve.bsky.social They are beautifully written and deserve far more attention than they’ve received.
This was my review of final book: vsviewfromthebookshelves.home.blog/2023/09/04/m...
This was my review of final book: vsviewfromthebookshelves.home.blog/2023/09/04/m...
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Just finished the third in the Utterly Dark trilogy by @philipreeve.bsky.social a wonderful tale, and beautifully read by @barnabyedwards.bsky.social Highly recommended 😃
August 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Just finished the third in the Utterly Dark trilogy by @philipreeve.bsky.social a wonderful tale, and beautifully read by @barnabyedwards.bsky.social Highly recommended 😃
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174. Thunder City by @philipreeve.bsky.social
Science fiction at its best - a prequel to the Mortal Engines books which can be read as a standalone. Amazingly imaginative world building, superb characterisation, lots of humour and genuine heart. I loved Miss Torpenhow and Oddington Doom so much!
Science fiction at its best - a prequel to the Mortal Engines books which can be read as a standalone. Amazingly imaginative world building, superb characterisation, lots of humour and genuine heart. I loved Miss Torpenhow and Oddington Doom so much!
August 16, 2025 at 9:36 AM
174. Thunder City by @philipreeve.bsky.social
Science fiction at its best - a prequel to the Mortal Engines books which can be read as a standalone. Amazingly imaginative world building, superb characterisation, lots of humour and genuine heart. I loved Miss Torpenhow and Oddington Doom so much!
Science fiction at its best - a prequel to the Mortal Engines books which can be read as a standalone. Amazingly imaginative world building, superb characterisation, lots of humour and genuine heart. I loved Miss Torpenhow and Oddington Doom so much!
Today! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
I’ll be in Edinburgh with @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social this coming Friday. Join us for Adventuremice-related malarkey if you can! @edbookfest.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Today! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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August 14, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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TIL Mortal Engines’ Philip Reeve is apparently the same Philip Reeve as Pugs of the Frozen North’s Philip Reeve!?
The next Mortal Engines novel, Bridge of Storms, will be published early next year: philipreeveblog.blogspot.com/2025/08/brid...
August 12, 2025 at 12:35 PM
TIL Mortal Engines’ Philip Reeve is apparently the same Philip Reeve as Pugs of the Frozen North’s Philip Reeve!?