It doesn't have to be Valentine's Day to buy someone you love a random surprise book, but, well, it IS Valentine's Day so you might as well do it today, and get a shiny card too... #Booksky

Pretenders to the Throne of God came out in hardback yesterday, but, er, all our copies sold before I could take a picture... So this is your new book alert, and I'm sure we'll get more in soon! 💙📚🪐

I've never told a fortune in my life, but this beautiful new Dune Bene Gesserit #tarot deck from @titanbooks.bsky.social is making me consider it! Though if it decides I'm some kind of Kwisatz Haderach I think it should bear in mind that I am very tired and could do with a nap first. 💙📚🪐

Kerri Maniscalo's Throne of Nightmares had arrived! A sizzling bookish #romantasy in which a librarian finds herself magically trapped living out her favourite novels, and crosses paths with a doomed prince on a dangerous mission. Can they survive the story? 💙📚🪐 #spredges

Waterstones is hosting a special online event with Briar Boleyn on 9th Mar! She'll be chatting to Laura Heath about THE WINGS THAT BIND, the 3rd instalment of her bestselling #romantasy Bloodwing Academy series: www.waterstones.com/events/onlin... Exclusive book & art print with tickets! 💙📚🪐

Also released today: A Dark Forgetting is the brand new sumptuous fairytale #romantasy from Kristen Ciccarelli (author of the bestselling Crimson Moth), in which Emeline must make a bargain in the court of the Wood King to save her missing grandfather. But what will she lose along the way? 💙📚🪐

From the mastermind behind the bestselling Dungeon Crawler Carl series comes a new riotous scifi adventure as a rancher on a settled exoplanet tries to save his community from eviction by a colossal corporation... Operation Bounce House by Matt Dinniman is out today! 💙📚🪐 #NewBooks

Happy publication day to Caitlin Breeze's debut dark academia fantasy The Fox Hunt! Emma finds herself snared in the games of the powerful and wealthy at university, men who would sacrifice anything for their privilege... Ancient magic, metamorphosis, fairytale & secret societies 🦊✨ 💙📚🪐

Author of the enchanting The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden returns with The Unicorn Hunters, in which the daughter of the king of Brittany must venture into a wood of ancient enchantments to avoid union with the French. Preorder SIGNED copies: www.waterstones.com/book/the-uni... 💙📚🪐

Ooh, online author event on 25th with bestselling fantasy powerhouse Kate Golden, talking to fellow writer @lindseykelk.bsky.social about HALF CITY, the epic first book in her Harker Academy #romantasy series. Details here: www.waterstones.com/events/onlin... 💙📚🪐

Hey writers, looking for something rather different this Valentine's day? This virtual Writing the Occult event looks great: there's such a good line up of authors and historians involved, and I can confirm from experience that Verity's talks are always excellent and entertaining! 💙📚🪐 #Horrorsky

25 years in the future most of Northern England is a wildland inaccessible to humans... Then two children unexpectedly get stranded there! Wildlands is a terrific kids book, and we've got a whole themed activity day + author event as a half term treat next Tuesday, so do pop in! #IpswichEvents 💙📚

It exists in the world. Released worldwide in English on April 7th. Something is coming…

For the morning crowd: Announcing the epic conclusion to @stephenking.bsky.social + Peter Straub's Talisman trilogy begun over forty years ago, Other Worlds Than These re-introduces readers to Jack Sawyer and wraps up the fate of worlds ✨ Preorder for October's release! 💙📚🪐

y'all all saw this, yes?

Always nice to come in first thing on a Monday to see a ransacked almost-empty table, where the bookshop almost sold out of a title I love over the weekend! Glad so many people have picked up Pagans by James Alistair Henry so far ⚔️❤️ #Booksky 💙🪐

Happy Sunday, Bluesky! What are you all reading? I'm part way through Ben Pester's The Expansion Project which so far feels to me a little as if David Lynch wrote Severance... Odd, disconcerting, yet strangely compelling & hard to stop reading. 💙📚🪐

Ooh, @aptshadow.bsky.social is touring Watersones for his forthcoming release, Children of Strife! Details here: www.waterstones.com/events/searc...

I was at a recent signing where I noted that we suspect about 10 to 15 percent of sales for this book came purely from the cover, and someone in the signing line who heard the comment said "Oh thank god, I'm not alone," which I thought was pretty funny.

It was honestly hard to narrow it down to this many! There's no excuse to have a TBR devoid of Black authors. Check out V's and my recommendations, and let us know some of your favorites! #BookSky

A sorcerer's apprentice performs the heist of a lifetime only to find herself growing close to the princess whose father is unexpectedly murdered in A Treachery of Swans, @abporanek.bsky.social's sapphic #romantasy. Exclusive paperback edition out in April: www.waterstones.com/book/a-treac... 💙📚🪐

A travelling show like no other: every night the ballet troupe of lost souls perform an ancient dance for the faerie realm, knowing they could be snatched away by their audience at any moment. Dark, lyrical, and told over a single strange day: happy publication day to The Apple and the Pearl! 💙📚🪐

Happy book birthday to @cornellwriter.bsky.social! SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL is now available. Set in a retrofuturistic Toronto, this #scifi #romance novelette is a hopeful and timeless tale. Find purchasing links here: www.starsandsabers.com/books/shoesh... Or order from your favorite seller!

New Review - happy publication day to All That Is In The Earth by @aknighton.bsky.social a trip to a deadly planet also asks questions about why we do what we do! Strongly recommended thanks to @lunapress.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/2/...

Ah what a fabulous review to wake up to on publication day! 🤗✨️ "a wonderfully told story...the language and atmosphere really make this a perfect tale to read on a chilly dark evening and wonder exactly did that shadow in the corner of your eye just move?"

Congrats to @annaleen.bsky.social's Automatic Noodle for winning the 2025 CALIBA Golden Poppy Award! A fantastic cozy novella about a crew of robots opening their own noodle shop in the face of human suspicion 🤖❤️ @torbooks.bsky.social 💙📚🪐

The Bloody Branch by @brigiddooks.bsky.social is out now! A lyrical and intense tale inspired by Celtic folklore, following three female characters from the dark stories of the Mabinogion, and packed with feminine rage and power. 💙📚🪐

Properly delighted to announce @jamesbluecat.bsky.social's Pagans has been picked for Waterstones #SFF Book of the Month for Feb! I really loved this tale of alternative modern London: Anglo Saxon police, ancient rituals, a serial killer, drones and hackers - honestly so much fun. GO BUY IT! 💙📚🪐

Properly delighted to announce @jamesbluecat.bsky.social's Pagans has been picked for Waterstones #SFF Book of the Month for Feb! I really loved this tale of alternative modern London: Anglo Saxon police, ancient rituals, a serial killer, drones and hackers - honestly so much fun. GO BUY IT! 💙📚🪐

🚨COVER REVEAL!🚨 Feast your eyes on Sam Gretton's cover for THE EAGLE IN THE MOUNTAIN, the much anticipated sequel to Caskey Russell's indigenous epic fantasy - THE DOOR ON THE SEA! Out September 2026. Full reveal by @reactorsff.bsky.social https://bit.ly/3M0FgsU Buy book 1 https://geni.us/doorsea

MY GO BOOK TOUR! as we say in Cornwall (sometimes, when we're excited)

Hey, British Brandon Sanderson fans: Waterstones has a competition to win a dedicated signed Exclusive edition of his upcoming Isles of the Emberdark! Closes 9.2.26, details here: www.waterstones.com/win/isles-of... #Cosmere 💙📚🪐

Asunder by @kerstinhall.bsky.social is out in paperback! A deathspeaker, locked into an irrevocable compact with a terrifying eldritch being, uses her powers to pay the rent by contacting the newly dead. Then she accidentally binds a man with dangerous secrets to her shadow... 💙📚🪐 #Horrorsky #SFF

Cat visitor looking celestial, moments before uncovering my water glass and helping himself, and then reaching down with a paw and batting me round the face. "That's quite enough sleep for you, human". #NotMyCat

Way of the Walker is out this week! A companion book to @salgo.bsky.social's much loved The Last Phi Hunter, read if you love great worldbuilding; Thai mythology; books that tackle colonialism and rage but retain a solid core of hope in bad times; and of course a fantastic plot! 💙📚🪐

Film and TV adaptations of @brandonsanderson.com's Mistborn and Stormlight Archive series apparently set to be made by Apple TV... 👀 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie... #SFF

Tune in tomorrow for our @lunapress.bsky.social 2026 Novella Launch!! @aknighton.bsky.social and I will be chatting all about the novellas, inspirations, and thematic overlaps despite being such different genres! 7pm GMT/2pm EST on YouTube to watch live! Spread the word! ✨️🖤 youtu.be/E2rmVnbVOp4?...

Thanks to all who came to my Cambridge event this evening! I hope you enjoyed hearing me wander wildly off topic and, uh, start talking about twelfth century theological discussions of spiders falling in communion wine. I'm... educational?

Such a fun and fascinating evening at Waterstones Cambs with authors @finnlongman.com and @hollyrace.bsky.social earlier today. Always a delight when an author is so passionate about their research - I really want to read more on the medieval werewolf renaissance now! 💙📚🪐

Woop woop! I am here slightly... *checks watch*... FOUR HOURS early. Oh no, whatever will I do with my time in such a big bookshop, in a city with so much coffee and cake to offer?

Are you around Cambridge this eve? Who not come to this medieval werewolf event at Waterstones bookshop with author @finnlongman.com! 🐺❤️ Still time to grab tickets 💙📚🪐

what are we reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaading?

Just finished this and my god was it a lot of fun! Good chewy creative conceptual mischief. Some pretty good scares, too. Total brain candy.

It's hard to believe it, but the day is finally here! Ballad of the Bone Road is officially out in the world!

I'm currently househunting, and this WINDMILL keeps coming up on Rightmove (outside our range, but on a rainy afternoon I'm willing to entertain the fantasy of owning a windmill, bookshop, cafe and gallery 😁) Apparently there's *already* a little tea room in one of the row of included buildings.

Climbed into the shop window for a photo when I saw we have a copy of the special edition of Samantha Sotto Yambao's new cozy fantasy novel The Elsewhere Express on display in there! Raya finds herself on a quest on an enchanted train, with magic & a mysterious stowaway. 💙📚🪐 #NewBooks

Good morning Bluesky! As a special treat I appear to have bought the rainy weather back from holiday with me to Suffolk. Enjoy. (My walking boots are still wet through from the Cheviots last weekend...) At least the bookshop will be dry and warm 🤞

A chronically ill girl makes a deal with an unseelie King of the Dead to save her family, and finds herself bound into marriage in the lushly dark fae court... but she refuses to be a pawn in their unwelcome games. New fae #Romantasy King of Ravens by @claresager.bsky.social is now out! 💙📚🪐

As it was #BurnsNight at the weekend, now seems like a good time to remind you of our own, rapidly growing, Scottish literary contingent (with more authors who make Scotland their home joining us in the coming months👀)! @mkhardywrites.com @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social

We Call Them Witches by India-Rose Bower has arrived in the bookshop! What great cover art too 🦊 💙📚🪐