Kiera O'Brien

Author of Millie Versus the Machines. Hot cross bun aficionado.

[Kiera O'Brien @kieraobrien]

Isn't it funny how we never came up with a proper word for non-fiction and just divide books into not-real and not-not-real

[Rafa Sales Ross @rafiews]

Me writing emails

[Paula Clarke Bain @PC_Bain]

As I mentioned at @indexers Coffee Zoom this morning on indexing children’s books – here’s a charming index to Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar. 🐛🍎

[Kiera O'Brien @kieraobrien]

Me watching sales of The Telltale Heart explode next week #Eurovision

[Kiera O'Brien @kieraobrien]

You just know they’re making baked Alaska in the Bake Off tent today

[Kiera O'Brien @kieraobrien]

Boris Johnson and Nadine Dorries running the government until October

[Kiera O'Brien @kieraobrien]

OK, who’s been doing a two-for-one deal on these two?

[Caroline Carpenter @CarolineC1988]

Very proud of @thebookseller’s #ScotlandFocus, which includes interviews with @Doug_D_Stuart, @DeanAtta, @passingplace,
@CatherineMMunro, @bwpublishing & @MonstrousRgmt plus fab pieces by @Glasgowlee, @tomtivnan, @auburnray7, @TashaOnwuemezi & @kieraobrien. Check it out here👇🏽

[Kiera O'Brien @kieraobrien]

@CarolineC1988 I’m already pre-emptively furious about this year’s bee clue

[Kiera O'Brien @kieraobrien]

@CarolineC1988

[prance @bocxtop]

a bored caveman rubbed two sticks together until it lit up now i gotta do battle with excel from 9am to 5pm everyday

[Kiera O'Brien @kieraobrien]

I still can’t believe EL James released a book called The Mister with a straight face

[Kiera O'Brien @kieraobrien]

@TomEaston First Eurovision, now this

[Kiera O'Brien @kieraobrien]

I think, as a nation, we’ve peaked

[tomtivnan @tomtivnan]

Also, The Very Hungry Caterpillar is 1 of just 2 BookScan "evergreens": books that have never fallen out of Nielsen's weekly TCM Top 5,000 since records began.
Last week it was the 25th bestselling kids' book, 9th bestselling picture book. That's 52 years after publication

[Kiera O'Brien @kieraobrien]

*the clouds part briefly, a glimpse of blue, a shard of sunlight falls across the kitchen table*
Me:

[Kiera O'Brien @kieraobrien]

@samuel_mcqueen Genuinely can’t think why we don’t do this

[HelpMeToPass @HelpMeToPass]

The 7-day average for Covid deaths in the UK is 6, which is the lowest since 15th March 2020.

[Kiera O'Brien @kieraobrien]

Lithuania’s entry is either a terrifying fever dream or I love it, I can’t tell which #Eurovision

[Kiera O'Brien @kieraobrien]

Germany really don’t want to host next year, do they #Eurovision