Saltcrop by @yumewrites.bsky.social is now out! It's a near future tale of two sisters who must travel across a dying earth to find their missing sibling who left to seek a cure for ecological collapse ⛵🌾❤️ It's a strange and beautiful journey about family, resilience, hope and mystery 💙📚🪐

Ok, I'm blocking the bot. Ethics aside, it's just annoying: claiming it's "excited" to dive into a book, that it "loves" something, reposting inaccurate summaries, horrible AI graphics, constant following and unfollowing. I'll give it a bit less fuel on here. #SFF

Ooh, I liked the old cover too, but this new one is rather lovely! A good excuse to go grab yourselves a copy if you haven't already: it's a beautifully written historical fantasy set in jazz age 1920s Mexico, packed with Mayan folklore, magic and myth! 💙📚🪐

Out today from Bridget Collins (The Binding), The Naked Light mixes folk horror, historical fiction, forbidden love, and the trauma of war in a tale of a village watched over by a mysterious ancient carving. Gorgeous #spredge editions here while stocks last! #NewBooks 💙📚🪐

Thousands of years ago a colony ship arrived at the Hearth, birthplace of millions of planets, and humans have lived there ever since, but now something else, something unexpected, has arrived seeking the riches for themselves... Hearthspace by Stephen Baxter is out today! #SFF 💙📚🪐

'If your heart belongs to the dark side (and you're sick of having to apologise for it), you need this book.' Kirsty Logan Anna Bogutskaya charts horror's soaring popularity by diving into some of the most significant recent works of film and TV horror. Out now in paperback 🩸

The Shadow Glass (2022) by @joshwinning.bsky.social is the best book I’ve read this year. It’s a wildly underrated, emotionally grounded adventure story for anyone who grew up loving Labyrinth, Dark Crystal, or any Jim Henson-type media, but it also introduces its own wonderful lore and characters.

And well deserved too! Congrats 👏📚💙 We'll be putting together displays of our paperbacks of the year between now and December - they're always great xmas present options!

Some news from me: Hekate, my verse novel is a top 5 Sunday Times bestseller this week. It’s my first ever time on the list and it’s still quite rare for poetry to make this bestsellers list - especially verse novels, so feeling incredibly grateful to be here.

Congrats to @pedroiniguez.bsky.social! If you haven't gotten hold of a copy of Mexicans on the Moon I do recommend doing so - I really enjoyed it. Plus, the world needs more scifi and speculative poetry! 💙📚🪐 #Poetry

Thief of Night by @hollyblack.bsky.social is out today 🌒✨ The sequel to Book of Night is just as atmospheric, twisty and excitingly tense, and we have these beautiful special *signed* editions, while stocks last! 💙📚🪐 #Spredges #NewBooks

This is a delightful idea!

It's #Alchemised day! This devastating dark fantasy has been causing quite a viral stir: a woman with missing memories fights to survive a war-torn world of necromancy & alchemy – & the man tasked with unearthing the deepest secrets of her past. Reserve your copy before they all go! #NewBooks 💙📚🪐

This is a great time to escape into a book and ALSO an absolutely critical time to support the kind of books you want to keep seeing in the world by showing publishers they can still sell! Here are some of my favorite escape reads pubbed within the past year or so—what are yours? (More in thread!)

Today is #HobbitDay because both Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were born on September 22nd. Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves. Anyway come and boromir #Tolkien books.

Loving this dark feminist fairy tale. Dual unreliable narrators who live in a crumbling mansion in a wild wood haunted by beings connected to the river that flows nearby.

To celebrate Alan Moore's alternative-London novel The Great When, I see Waterstones Plus members can also win a tour for two of the Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, plus cocktails at the Absinthe Parlour. www.waterstones.com/win/the-grea... (Details here, do read the t&cs for eligibility!) 💙📚🪐

Just a day left to enter the contest to win a OOAK handpainted by BooksByHebe copy of @senlinyu.bsky.social's forthcoming dark fantasy Alchemised! Enter here: www.waterstones.com/win/alchemis... †(18+, GB residents, t&cs apply) 💙📚🪐

Did you know there's an official #FourthWing colouring book? 🐉🔥 Filled with gorgeously intricate illustrations by devoted fan artists, it's actually really beautifully produced, with full-colour facing pages that you can use for reference (if you want!) 💙📚🪐 #colouring

Good Morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Today I’m currently reading a great fantasy novel A Sword of Gold and Ruin by Anna Smith Spark. What are you reading at the moment?

Happy Birthday to @stephenking.bsky.social! Born at the start of spooky season, he's never quite escaped its influence, much to everyone's delight! 😁💀🦇🍁 💙📚🪐

Here are my favourite murder mystery fantasy book recs: The Tainted Cup by @robertjbennett.bsky.social The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson The Scour by @richardswanauthor.bsky.social (out in October) Death on the Caldera by @emmypax.bsky.social The Last Vigilant by @markalatham.bsky.social

"Ranging from the dead sands of Mars to the half-flooded remnants of Amsterdam, from the seedy backstreets of Buenos Aires to the gravity well of a singularity", action packed, big-choice-laden short story collection Who Will You Save by @garethlpowell.bsky.social is out this week! 💙📚🪐 #NewBooks

The British Library have just sent me photos of ILLUSIONS OF PRESENCE - it has been printed!!! EMINENT ANTHOLOGIST Aww yeah. #FESTIVESHINYSHINY Book out October 16, pre-order your copy from links below:

Automatic Noodle by @annaleen.bsky.social is here! 🍜🤖 One of my top picks for Sept: a cozy scifi novella featuring a crew of abandoned food service bots who decide to open their own noodle shop. Found family, capitalism, post-war Dan Francisco & food that'll make you feel hungry reading it! 💙📚🪐

The Summer War by @naominovik.bsky.social is now out, and we have a limited run of these beautiful sprayed edge special editions in stock! A fairytale novella of unintended curses, familial relationships, and a centuries old war against immortal beings... 💙📚🪐 #NewBooks #Spredges

Another event for your diaries, just down the line in Waterstones Colchester on 9th October! I'm jealous: Laura Purcell does atmospheric and haunting menace so well - this is bound to be a fantastic & interesting evening out for the start of spooky season 🦇💀🏚️

My favourite scene in this involves snails, incidentally.

This BEAUTY arrived this morning from Waterstones 😍 Review coming soon as nearly finished the eARC! SO honoured & thrilled to see my quote on the inside cover & alongside @petemc666.bsky.social @shaunalawless.bsky.social and @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social !! @annasmithspark.bsky.social

Oooh! A new one. Order it without delay.

Yesterday I received my copy of "Hekate" by @nikitagill.bsky.social. It's drop-dead gorgeous. The design is by Sasha Illingworth, and the jacket art is by @micaelaalcaino.bsky.social. #nikitagill #hekate #booksky #beautifulbooks #design #sashaillingworth #micaelaalcaino #poetry #verse #mythology

Happy publication day to this very jaunty trickster fox!

Ooh, author Chloe Gong is going to be just across the border in Cambridge in November as part of her tour for COLD WIRE, her brand new dystopian #cyberpunk adventure. Put it in your diary! Details here: www.waterstones.com/events/searc... 💙📚🪐

A very good argument for why you should read, especially if you're on here doomscrolling (yes, I see you...)

Hooray, it's autumn! My favouri.... *instantly catches a cold* 🍁🍂🤧

WE LIVE HERE NOW, Sarah Pinborough: Very scary. Turns out there's life in the haunted house plot, after all. Original and my God, so dark.

🍞📚😋 BTW this may be of interest, and a share would be most appreciated! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

She might win the throne. She might destroy an empire... Featuring black sprayed edges, beautiful endpapers and lilac casefoil, the Waterstones Exclusive Edition of Antonia Hodgson’s epic fantasy THE RAVEN SCHOLAR is available to pre-order now! Find it here: www.waterstones.com/book/the-rav... 💙📚🪐

Katherine Rundell’s much awaited sequel to the phenomenally successful Impossible Creatures is here! Christopher returns to the magical world of the Archipelago where adventure and, of course, fantastical creatures await! #booksky #impossiblecreatures #adventure #newrelease #kids #books #adventure

Looking forward to my preorder of this arriving next week. I haven't read many mythological retellings, but I've really enjoyed the author's other work so I'm confident this will be a treat! #Booksky

We have a cover for next year's Children of Strife!

In today's "what are other stores recommending?", Waterstones Martlesham have some nice shelf talkers for @scalzi.com's Starter Villain, and @misterkristoff.bsky.social's Empire of the Damned 💀🦇 #Booksky 📚🪐 #Vampires

🎂🎉Happy UK Book Birthday to @voidcricket.bsky.social 's AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD! 🚀“Hutchings is a bright light in space opera.” — Bethany Jacobs 🌠“Unmissable. Ren Hutchings is on my must-read list.” @garethlpowell.bsky.social Buy now geni.us/unbrw

Out TODAY! 💙📚🪐

Lots of praise buzzing around for Roots of My Fears: Terrifying Stories of Ancestral Horror! 🦇💀❤️

We're only 10 days into September and we've already received all these fantastic brand new #SFF paperbacks! Nice to see some good horror coming out in time for spooky season too #Halloween 💀🍁 Which would you choose? Titles and authors in alt/below 💙📚🪐 #Horrorsky

Among the Burning Flowers, the prequel to @samanthashannon.bsky.social's Priory of the Orange Tree, is released tomorrow! And there are *signed copies* if you're quick (maybe reserve one tonight). Never read this epic, sapphic, draconic series? Now is the perfect time to start... #Booksky 🪐📚🐉

Visceral, grotesque, stomach-churning new horror from @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social, You Weren't Meant to be Human, is out now! An Appalachia overrun with flesh-eating worms and flies, and the sacrifices humans must make to survive... Fancy special editions while stocks last!

ICYMI: there's a new Brandon Sanderson short story collection, 'Tailored Realities', out in December, with a limited number of SIGNED copies available for preorder here! -> www.waterstones.com/book/tailore... 💙📚🪐