Historian Jerry Brotton on #Empireworld in the physical @FT today. It's amazing when, after years and years of toil, in the face of relentless and sometimes organised hostility, someone really gets your work.

My self-worth ain't invested in such things, but it's my first time on the Sunday Times bestseller list & a poignant moment for a boy who couldn't speak English when he started school. Thanks to the libraries which made me, the readers of #EmpireLand & @VikingBooksUK @jealnicola

380,000 children in the UK don't own books. I was one of them. We'll have to invent libraries all over again once they're gone. My piece for @thetimesmagazine tomorrow and online from today. #Books #Libraries #EmpireLand #TheBoyWithTheTopknot #literacy.

Remembrance Sunday. A time to remember all of them. Including the millions of Black, Sikh, Muslim, Hindu, Irish Catholic soldiers whose contribution has too often been ignored and even, at times, deliberately silenced.

Final plug for #TheBoyWithTheTopknot before I log off for day: @bbctwo 9pm tonight.My attempt to answer a common question about it in @RadioTimes: More about issues behind it here from ace charity @Rethink_ :

This week I got two racially abusive letters about my children's book on empire. I also met a student (with her parent) who is applying to study History at Cambridge having been inspired by #EmpireLand. ❤️ I won't stop this work.

An early review of #Empireworld in The i. Published a week today and events bookable now in London, Wolverhampton, Edinburgh, Bath and Bristol. Link:

Thrilled that @LyricHammer is staging my novel, Marriage Material, next year. Adapted by Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, and directed by Iqbal Khan, it's a multi-generational drama that follows one Sikh family and their corner shop from the 1960s to the present day. a story that.

Launch day! #Empireworld, the sequel to #Empireland, is out in paperback today. Named a Book of the Year by The Times, The i, and others, it's paperback of the month at @Foyles and @blackwellbooks. I'll be discussing its themes on a short tour with Peter Frankopan, Nihal

The world, and our lives, would look very different if the British empire hadn't happened. Going to post some videos about some of its everyday legacies, in the build-up to the release of #Empireworld, the sequel to #Empireland, in paperback. Second. imperial hotels.

Michael has written an essential book on Britain's involvement in slavery. These are points that should be put to anyone who maintains that Britain spontaneously abolished slavery out of sheer goodness.

The world, and our lives, would look very different if the British empire hadn't happened. Going to post some videos about some of its everyday legacies, in the build-up to the release of #Empireworld, the sequel to #Empireland, in paperback. Third. gutta percha.

Talked to the peerless @Hanifkureishi for @thetimes #TheBuddhaofSuburbia.

New findings from @OxfordDeptofEd: #LitinColourPioneers pilot with @PearsonSchools.@PenguinUKBooks @Runnymedetrust has created a🌟 100-fold 🌟 increase in the number of students.answering texts by writers of colour since 2019. Learn more & get involved with your school this year.

@TheLone08157926 What a deranged way of looking at history. Maybe you should ask @DalrympleWill.

@GerardCorvin Changing Places.

@MrBakerReads @ilovetoread28 @PuffinBooks Thankyou.

@james_donkin @ScolaidhDays @GenderReceipts amazing to hear James.

@deepamusafir1 @rachali79 The history blew my mind.

@grantstuartuk Happy new year.