It was on World Book Day that Change Everything: Common Sense Politics for the Age of Shocks jumped over the 75% funded barrier, meaning we're now on the homeward run. I don't know how many people on that day were following the tradition of gifting books to young people, but I think it is a great one. (I think lots of the sixth formers - and younger students - to whom I speak regularly would find it of interest.)

I made a little video to mark the day, reflecting on how much reading has shaped my life, my imagination, my education - and how much joy it has provided. I filmed it, with the camera balanced on a slightly wobbly chair, so that I could get in the background the shelf of books and other publications to which I've previously contributed.

They range from writing short biographies of Eveline Hill, Anne Kerr, Sheila Wright, Vera Baird and Caroline Lucas in two volumes of The Honourable Ladies, on endangered black grouse for the British Trust for Ornithology in Red Sixty Seven, to writing about anti-fundamentalism and Green politics in Women Against Fundamentalism. (There's a more or less complete list here.)

You might be wondering how the writing of Change Everything is going. Well I went to the seaside (Broadstairs) for a weekend and managed to work through about half the second draft. One more weekend will get it ready to send to Unbound - so the sooner we can get 100% funded the sooner editing will start.

Anything you can do to promote that - share either the main page link on social media, or perhaps the World Book Day video on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or Tiktok - would be much appreciated.