Is your dragon as well trained as you’d like, hmm? Come and meet the country’s foremost expert on dragon training, Cressida Cowell, at Guildford Waterstones on May the 4th. See Waterstones.com/events for details.

The 2025 #WomensPrize for Fiction shortlist. Have you read any of the shortlisted books?

🚨 Attention! 🚨 Tomorrow is the last day to spend your World Book Day £1/€1.50 book tokens!  Don’t miss your chance to choose a brilliant new book: from heartwarming picture books to heart-racing fantasy adventures @worldbookdayuk.bsky.social 📖 ✨ https://f.mtr.cool/ngtuvujqeo

Come see @jenniegow.bsky.social at Guildford Waterstones on March 20th. Tickets available through the events section on the website.

WORLD BOOK DAY!

'Saltburn meets Patricia Highsmith.' @theipaper.com Out now in paperback, The Kellerby Code is Waterstones Thriller of the Month for March. Pictured here at Waterstones Tottenham Court Road 📚 www.waterstones.com/book/the-kel...

We’re delighted to introduce the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist! The 16 books on the list are genre-spanning, with many exploring the ramifications of global events in the past, present and future. We hope you enjoy every moment of the journey within their pages.

New favourite spredge?

A personalized Valentine’s Card for Bibliophiles. My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.

The spectacular shortlist for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2025 is here! 🥳 Chosen by booksellers across the country, there's magic on every page, whatever their age. Discover the amazing shortlisted authors and illustrators here: bit.ly/3w9ZuZb #WCBP25

New books of the month for February. I’ve just started this one and I’m already loving the atmosphere 📚

Are you hungry? Margot lives in the forest with Mama. Mama gets hungry.

Would you make a deal with the devil? 👹 When a travelling library turns up at the home for unwed mothers, young Neva finds a strange magical book which offers her & her friends power, answers, & maybe revenge…

How about “I think it was blue?” Monday. Go into your nearest bookshop, tell a bookseller you’ve forgotten the title, but it’s a really good book and you think the cover is blue. Buy the first book they suggest. Bookseller feels great, whatever they picked will be great. Everyone wins!

Daughter of Chaos by A S Webb Merging rich fantasy with a deft reimagining of Greek mythology, Webb's mesmerising debut finds a fisherman's daughter transformed by eating a golden apple and charged with a determination to bring down the gods. #rustington #daughterofchaos #waterstones #sprayededges

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com Books

🤯 Jude Law will play Putin in the film “The Wizard of the Kremlin,” reports Deadline. His role is a supporting one, showing the dictator early in his political career.

Crime/Thriller of the month is The Wizard of the Kremlin by Giuliano da Empoli (translated from the original French by Willard Wood). A Russian spin doctor tries to escape from the dark regime he helped to create…

Celebrities are basically wearing books now and we’re here for it ✨ Here are the 2025 Golden Globes #LookstoBooks! ❤️

If you were the protagonist in your current book, what would you be looking at right now?

January’s Fiction book of the month is The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey. Two 11 year olds decide to track down the Yorkshire Ripper, what could possibly go wrong?

The next Bob Mortimer, The Long Shoe, is out on the 25th of September. Pre order your signed copy now!

Our Sci-Fi Fantasy Book of the Month this month. Described as Agatha Christie with glitter magic. I’m in.

We’re thrilled to announce the inaugural Waterstones Children’s Book Festival! 🥳 Featuring authors, workshops, activities and more, the festival will be a celebration of stories and illustration, highlighting the joys of reading, writing and drawing: www.waterstones.com/category/cul...

Finished this today and I’m sad it’s over. Such a beautiful book and such a joy to read.

The Waterstones #BookOfTheYear winners are here! A sensation with booksellers and readers from day one, it could only be BUTTER by Asako Yuzuki 🐄 And Children’s Book of the Year is I AM REBEL by Ross Montgomery, an unforgettable canine adventure 🐕 📚 www.waterstones.com/category/cul...