Brigands & Breadknives by @travisbaldree.bsky.social is out today! A cozy fantasy tale following bookseller Fern as she travels to set up in a new city, despite ambushes, unexpected quests, and sizable bookshop rennovation projects! Signed copies while they last! 💙📚🪐

A trans-Siberian odyssey through a vast, ever-encroaching alien winter, with mystery, murder, politics, and a race to harness strange powers: Ice by Jacek Dukaj is out now! #Booksky #SFF 📚🪐

The much anticipated second volume in James Islington's Hierarchy series, The Strength of the Few, is out today! If an epic, Roman empire-esque, magical dark academia sounds like it could be your vibe you really must read this excellent series. 💙📚🪐 #NewBooks

We're delighted to be partnering with Suffolk County Council for our Christmas Giving Tree again this year @waterstonesipswich.bsky.social Choose a tag from the tree, buy a gift matching the interests on the back, and bring a bit of joy to a young person in or leaving care this Christmas 🎄❤️ 📚💙

P.S. The short story includes some info about the Pagans-verse version of The Muppets, "a group of unruly wooden puppets who lived on a rickety old cargo ship". There may be a talking grasshopper. Yes, it is as wonderful as it sounds. @jamesbluecat.bsky.social's marvellous brain strikes again!

Very excited for this paperback as the hardback is definitely one of my books of the year!

The sequel to Devney Perry's bestselling romantasy Shield of Sparrows continues Calandra's heart-pounding adventures in a treacherous realm. Preorder the stunning Waterstones exclusive edition of Rites of the Starling, out in April, here: www.waterstones.com/book/rites-o... 💙📚🪐 #spredges

This looks very intriguing: you are an expert on occult texts and must solve a literary puzzle after an antiquarian #bookseller disappears mysteriously... Codex Regenesis contains paper engineering, illustrations, interactive elements, myth and fairytale ❤️ 💙📚🪐

I’m almost done with it now (I’ve been savoring it slowly) and The Works of Vermin by @hironennes.bsky.social might very well be one of the best books I’ve ever read. Period. I’ve already waxed feverish over its prose so I’ll spare you that this time. But you must read this book.

I bought airplane wifi so I could tell you that @alixeharrow.bsky.social’s THE EVERLASTING is a perfect goddamn book, also if you can see her on tour you absolutely should

There's 10k of you now! Leave your questions about Palestinian folklore, folktales, etc... in the comments and I'll answer them in a thread later. 🎉

Hi Bluesky, we’re new here, but our latest issue is out and now available to purchase from our web shop. Spread the word 💜 www.cunning-folk.com/shop/the-sou...

Well, Kae Tempest is just phenomenal live! Good lord that man can command a crowd. The Brixton gig was a completely different experience: emotional, joyous, word-perfect. Absolutely worth catching this tour if you can 📚💙 #poetry

Excellent event in @waterstonesipswich.bsky.social last night, when @folklorepod.bsky.social talked about his latest book Britain's #Folklore Year, and cajoled me into doing some readings for his talk, which meant we could also chat a bit about our bestseller Dark Folklore. Great fun - thank you!

We have just a few signed copies of the book Britain's Folklore Year left from last night's event. It's a really lovely little hardback from @nationaltrust.org.uk publishing, packed with interesting lore and traditions throughout the year and ideal as a gift! 💙📚🪐 #SignedBooks

Last night's Evening of British #Folklore event well: a really fascinating dive into our customs and superstitions, ritual and psychology, and great questions from the audience! Big thanks to authors @folklorepod.bsky.social, @traceynormanauthor.bsky.social, and everyone who came along #Booksky 📚🪐

Wowwie! I am honored to be included in this epic selection of lady-knight books, many of which are new to me! More winter reading! Hurrah! :-) www.pastemagazine.com/books/fantas...

Good morning Bluesky! It's a drizzly Saturday morning, I'm just about awake after a very fun bookshop event last night (more on that later), and the bus to work inexplicably smells strongly of basil leaves... There are definitely worse smells in the world, but it is a little odd. 🍃

Some tempting books www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Just a few hours to go! Come along to our folklore evening at 7pm this eve with author and folklore expert Mark Norman! (Email for tickets if you want to ensure you have a seat &/or copy of the book) #Ipswich #FolkloreFriday #Booksky

TOMORROW! #Folklore and customs at Waterstones Ipswich with @folklorepod.bsky.social at 7pm! There's still time to book a ticket (phone, email, or message) or to reserve a signed copy if you can't make it on the night. Looking forward to seeing some of you there! #BookSigning #Booksky 📚🪐

A perfectly marvelous collection! @theodoragoss.bsky.social delights in LETTERS FROM AN IMAGINARY COUNTRY, a new collection in conversation with folklore, Victorian lit, classics of genre fiction, & the human spirit of creativity. Lyrical and lovely: a highlight of my autumn as the weather turns.

We have just a few signed, pitch-black sprayed edge editions of brand new Empire of the Dawn, Jay Kristoff's epic conclusion to his vampire trilogy. Grab them while you can! 💙📚🪐 #Spredges #Vampire

New books! New books! 💙📚🪐 All released today: The War Beyond by @andreagstewart.bsky.social, Coldwire by Chloe Gong, Empire of the Dawn by @misterkristoff.bsky.social, The Tower of the Tyrant by @jeremyteg.bsky.social, As Many Souls as Stars by Natasha Siegel, 1/2

TOMORROW! #Folklore and customs at Waterstones Ipswich with @folklorepod.bsky.social at 7pm! There's still time to book a ticket (phone, email, or message) or to reserve a signed copy if you can't make it on the night. Looking forward to seeing some of you there! #BookSigning #Booksky 📚🪐

Look what came in today: the physical version of the #Witcher card game Gwent! Lots of new books too, but it's a madly busy day so I'll try to snap some photos this afternoon... #BoardGames

I love this idea of doing a daily drawing on a calendar!

I'd love to read some decent books (nonfiction) and articles about space futurism throughout the last century, what people tried to predict for the real world and what fantastic obsessions in that field either failed or succeeded, in whichever way. Have any of you got some decent recs for me please?

I lost the framed original of this while I was going through St Pancras on Sunday Nov 2nd around 3pm. Would love if it had been found by anyone?

It's publication day TOMORROW! So last chance to enter this preorder giveaway! 👇🏽

Nottingham peeps: I'll be at Waterstones on the 28th November with @franwritesstuff.bsky.social and @mikebrooks668.bsky.social, talking all things SFF and, of course, The Last Vigilant. Tickets available now. www.waterstones.com/events/franc...

Signed sprayed edge editions of @jasmine-mas.bsky.social's Bonds of Hercules have arrived today! I'm sure they'll get snapped up fast... #Booksky 📚🪐

Fallen City is a new Greco-Roman inspired fantasy from @adriennebooks.bsky.social: a great classical city, forbidden love, political machinations, magic, tangled secrets, uprising and class war. Out today! 💙📚🪐 #Romantasy

THIS FRIDAY @waterstonesipswich.bsky.social! Have you reserved your signed copy and/or free tickets yet? Meet author @folklorepod.bsky.social at our British #Folklore Evening & discover fascinating folk customs new and old. Do repost for anyone who might be interested! 🎃🎆🎄 #Booksky

Three years ago today I was sent the first photo of CELTIC WEIRD by British Library Publishing. 5 books with them in three years. Insane.

Let's hear from the illustrator/artists, tell us a little bit about yourself, what projects you've on the go, what you've drawn, any events in the near future, or just drop your bio and links and follow and support each other #IllustratorTuesday #BookSky 📚💙 #Artists #Illustrator alt text please

Now, here's something you don't see everyday, did you know that @artofelaineho.bsky.social 's dark political epic fantasy CRY, VOIDBRINGER has it's very own original literary soundtrack from The Bookish Songs Collective? Listen: https://geni.us/CRYVSound Preorder: https://geni.us/cryvoi

Just finished @artofelaineho.bsky.social's Cry, Voidbringer (out this week!), a heart-rending tale of survival, found family, betrayal, and self-destruction in a world where empire means everything, goldchildren walk the earth, lives are cheap, and hope is a dangerous thing... 💙📚🪐 #NewBooks

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about THE WORKS OF VERMIN by Hiron Ennes. A entomological epic in a Weird city where art & revolution are intimately entwined, this queer puzzle box is TRANSCENDENT. Our drink is the Extemporist, for a perfume-soaked night at the opera.

Catch up on the awards and winners announced last night at this year's World Fantasy Convention: #SFF

Waterstones' November YA book of the month is the gothic fantasy The House Saphir by Marissa Meyer! It's a Bluebeard reimagining in which a con-artist 'witch' reckons with murder and longing in a mansion owned by the handsome, brooding great-grandson of Count Bastien Saphir... #Romantasy 💙📚🪐

And we’re about to begin…

When Hana's father goes missing on her first day as owner of a magical pawn shop in Tokyo, she must enlist help from an unusual customer... Our new #SFF Book of the Month, WATER MOON by Samantha Sotto Yambao is a beautiful Ghibli-esque tale of love & the weight of choices not taken. 💙📚🪐

The annual doorknocking has subsided, so it's time to curl up with a cat, a book, and a mug of something warming. Happy Halloween everyone 🦇🍄🎃

The Bell Witches by @lindseykelk.bsky.social has a sequel out in February! Gothic fantasy The Witch and the Wolf has prophecy, werewolves, & a deadly threat that's hunting Emily and everyone she loves... Exclusive signed editions available to preorder here: www.waterstones.com/book/the-wit... 💙📚🪐

Our national Waterstones book of the year shortlist has been announced! This award is decided by all the booksellers, so it's always exciting to see what's made it into the final pick. Pleased to see some genre: The Raven Scholar, Katabasis, Sunrise on the Reaping ❤️ Which will win? 💙📚🪐

This was outstanding, as is the novel it's based on.

Happy Halloween🤘🎃 Show us your pumpkins in the comments (I still have one more to carve, hopefully later today)🖤☠️

Every year on #Halloween we carve a #Pumpkin from our collection of Penguin Books. 🎃 We're up to our elbows here in juicy plots and seedy characters. Luckily there's not much pulp fiction. 🎃