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THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN IS COMING!

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A magical, time-travelling love story, from the world of The Midnight Library is out on 26th May 2026. When your life flashes before your eyes, where would you stop?⁣⁣No one can change the past, but the Midnight Train can take you there.⁣The chance to re-live the moments that meant most.⁣To […]

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Feels like the end of more than a life. Perhaps the most unifying American. And the best kind of American Dream. A passionate supporter of literacy as she understood how books are ladders out of poverty and despair. Her ‘Imagination Library’ still mails free books every month to thousands of kids who need them. Two hundred million books have been sent via this. What a legacy. Not to mention some of the best songs ever written. I never met her but she read and talked such lovely words about a book I wrote and that fact means more than anything that has ever happened in my career. Loved her. Some wanted to turn her into a joke but the joke was always on them. Toughest cookie out there. Thank you. Loved her, yes. And when December comes around listen to ‘Hard Candy Christmas’ as it is an amazing song. Sweet dreams, Dolly. X
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Feels like the end of more than a life. Perhaps the most unifying American. And the best kind of American Dream. A passionate supporter of literacy as she understood how books are ladders out of poverty and despair. Her ‘Imagination Library’ still mails free books every month to thousands of kids who need them. Two hundred million books have been sent via this. What a legacy. Not to mention some of the best songs ever written. I never met her but she read and talked such lovely words about a book I wrote and that fact means more than anything that has ever happened in my career. Loved her. Some wanted to turn her into a joke but the joke was always on them. Toughest cookie out there. Thank you. Loved her, yes. And when December comes around listen to ‘Hard Candy Christmas’ as it is an amazing song. Sweet dreams, Dolly. X
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Just made a donation to @mindcharity Last week I had posted getting people to nominate someone in their life to feature in the sequel to The Midnight Library. 3,131 names of people were received. I still have no idea who I will choose. But for now I am honouring my promise and donating a pound for every one of those comments. Thank you! And I definitely don’t need any more names.
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Just made a donation to @mindcharity Last week I had posted getting people to nominate someone in their life to feature in the sequel to The Midnight Library. 3,131 names of people were received. I still have no idea who I will choose. But for now I am honouring my promise and donating a pound for every one of those comments. Thank you! And I definitely don’t need any more names.
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Was lovely walking into the bookshop in Ibiza Town and seeing these
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Twenty six years ago I tried to kill myself one mile from here. There were myriad reasons, the most broad of which was that I was neurodivergent without knowing. I was ADHD. I was living impulse to impulse, addiction to addiction, and all because I didn’t understand the front part of my brain worked differently to other people. I genuinely believe if I’d have known then I was ADHD I wouldn’t have got into such a pickle. So when I hear people on TV saying that people like me are overdiagnosed I think your way of thinking nearly killed me.
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Twenty six years ago I tried to kill myself one mile from here. There were myriad reasons, the most broad of which was that I was neurodivergent without knowing. I was ADHD. I was living impulse to impulse, addiction to addiction, and all because I didn’t understand the front part of my brain worked differently to other people. I genuinely believe if I’d have known then I was ADHD I wouldn’t have got into such a pickle. So when I hear people on TV saying that people like me are overdiagnosed I think your way of thinking nearly killed me.
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