Kick off the holiday season with award-winning author NATHANAEL LESSORE at the Waterstones Piccadilly Christmas Evening this Thursday! 🎄📚🎁 See you there for an evening of books, author signings and Christmas cheer!

YALC 2025 drop! With more proofs, activities and giveaways than ever before, we're ready for the best bookish weekend 📚 See you at the Hot Key stand this weekend!

Happy publication day to ASK ME ANYTHING by the incredible Bethany Rutter 🗞️ Meet Mary-Elizabeth. Uni mag columnist. Campus love expert. But she's NOT looking for love... A hilarious new, sassy campus-set romcom with a gorgeous sprinkle of rivals to lovers. Out now! https://loom.ly/I9uU1Ao

Return to the world of WE WERE LIARS in the brand new follow-up novel by E. Lockhart, WE FELL APART 🌊 Prepare for more beachy gothic atmosphere, family intrigue and high-stakes romance. Out now: https://loom.ly/uADCFlQ

📚 Discount reminder! 📚 Today is your last chance to pre-order these very special 2026 Hot Key titles for 25% off on the Waterstones website and app! Shop here: https://loom.ly/BqKZNEc

'Readers of Illuminae and Aurora Rising have been asking for years when we’re heading back to space, and Red Star Rebels is my answer to that question.' Queen of YA sci-fi Amie Kaufman is joining the Hot Key family! RED STAR REBELS lands Feb 2026 💫🚀🌟👩‍🚀 https://loom.ly/Yl2hL_8

🏠 Are you really home alone? 🏠 There's a chill in the air. Spooky season is coming. And the queen of twists is back with a brand-new thriller. Get ready for THE OBSESSION by Natasha Preston! Coming this December, it's the thriller that'll have you keeping the lights on https://loom.ly/xIBZavM

It's HERE!!! The Book of Heartbreak has a BookTrail map! thebooktrail.com/book-trails/... #excusemereading @hotkeybooks.bsky.social

I was blown away by this review. All I set out to do when I wrote NOT GOING TO PLAn! Thank you, @stephenjdilley 😊 @hotkeybooks.bsky.social

#BookReview: THE BOOK OF HEARTBREAK by Ova Ceren @excusemyreading.bsky.social @hotkeybooks.bsky.social #UKYA sifaelizabethreads.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/b...

Over on @ukyaspotlight.bsky.social, an interview with Ova Ceren, author of THE BOOK OF HEARTBREAK @hotkeybooks.bsky.social #UKYA #UKYASpotlight ukyaspotlight.co.uk/2025/08/25/a...

To celebrate the release of Not Going to Plan by @tiafisher.bsky.social, we've asked her all about writing a verse novel & dealing with heavier subjects in writing. We're also lucky enough to be able to giveaway 3 pairs of her books on Insta!😍 campya.org/campfire-cha... @hotkeybooks.bsky.social

Thank you so much, Linda! I’m really thrilled you enjoyed Marnie and Zed’s story. 📕🌈 <Sighs happily> Heads-up, folks - from such a world expert on verse novels, that’s like getting a Michelin star! ⭐ 🥰 @evewhiteagency.bsky.social @hotkeybooks.bsky.social #skybrarians

Loving this. 🔥 Thank you @lovereading4kids.bsky.social ! www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/book/9781471... I'm so happy you made it a star book! ⭐ Thank you @hotkeybooks.bsky.social for making this happen.

I’m so thrilled to announce that my Regency mecha Romantasy SEASON OF STEEL and its standalone companion novel GAUNTLET OF GOLD have found their home with Dutton Books in the US and @hotkeybooks.bsky.social in the UK!

🎉 MAJOR NEWS! 🎉 We Were Liars, the Amazon Prime adaptation of E. Lockhart's YA novel, is gonna be back on screens with a season 2! Can't wait for it to break us all over again!!!! https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/we-were-liars-renewed-season-2-amazon-1236373470/

We're SO excited to share that Hot Key will be the UK home for Maia Kane's gorgeous sapphic romantasy debut: SEASON OF STEEL! 🗝️Bridgerton meets Gladiator 🗝️Regency England meets giant mecha tournaments 🗝️Complete with high society balls and rebellious women Coming 2027✨ https://loom.ly/cWNXAUI

Introducing AGAINST ALL ODDS by Nathanael Lessore, a World Book Day 2026 title and the only book for independent readers! Young readers will be able to use their £1 token from February 2026 to grab AGAINST ALL ODDS, a story for every teen, full of Nate's signature humour, heart and joy

🦋 GAYLE FORMAN EVENT 🦋 Join us next week at Waterstones Kensington for a very special event with YA superstar Gayle Forman! She'll be talking about her new book, AFTER LIFE, with the amazing Elle McNicoll Tues 16th Sept. Ticket here: https://loom.ly/aSyTjMI

Happy publication day to NOT GOING TO PLAN, the newest book from Carnegie winning author @tiafisher.bsky.social‬! Meet Marnie and Zed, classmates turned unlikely friends in this powerful verse novel about sexual consent, unplanned pregnancy & the breaking of taboos https://lnk.to/NotGoingToPlan

To celebrate the publication of The Book of Heartbreak by Ova Ceren, we're offering the chance to win one of five evil eye necklaces. Plus, the first 300 entrants will receive a merch bundle! Enter here! https://loom.ly/RN-zvPc

We can't wait to see you all at Waterstones BookFest next week! We'll have lots of exciting things going on at the Hot Key stand, including the first early copies of THE BOOK OF HEARTBREAK and signing with author Ova Ceren 🌙 📖 ⏳

We can't wait to see you all at Waterstones BookFest next week! We'll have lots of exciting things going on at the Hot Key stand, including the first early copies of THE BOOK OF HEARTBREAK and signing with author Ova Ceren 🌙 📖 ⏳

First, she gave you SUDDENLY A MURDER. Now Lauren Muñoz is back with another smart, twisty, irresistible murder mystery. Happy book birthday to MURDER HIGH by Lauren Muñoz! The dead body should have been fake. But it wasn't. Now there's all to play for... https://lnk.to/MurderHigh

Dating is hard enough. Try grabbing coffee when you live a universe apart☕️ Happy pub day to COFFEESHOP IN AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE by @cblee_cblee! Can a girl who is determined to save the world find love with a girl determined to outrun her destiny? https://lnk.to/CoffeeshopAlternateUniverse

'To live is to lie, little thief' 🎲 Happy publication day to DEN OF LIARS by the amazing Jessica S. Olson! ✨ A dangerous tournament ✨ A magical casino ✨ A daring and high-stakes heist The enemies-to-lovers romantasy of the summer is out now: https://lnk.to/DenOfLiars

Tenderly I Am Devoured 🦢🎀 🌊 Lyndall Clipstone’s infinitely gorgeous folk horror romantasy is out today. With a swan god, a poly romance and all the yearning you could ask for, we can’t wait for you to enter the world of Lyndall’s beautiful new book. https://lnk.to/TenderlyIAmDevoured

Your newest thriller addiction is landing in 2026! We're so so excited to welcome Marissa Meyer and Tamara Moss to the Hot Key family with their incredible murder mystery: THE ESCAPE GAME

Marking 2025 as the year of WE WERE LIARS by E. Lockhart: 📺 Series drop on Amazon Prime this Thursday! 📖 Our TV tie-in edition of the book that started it all - out now 🤫 We Fell Apart, a brand new book in the We Were Liars world - out Nov 2025 Are you ready for even more secrets and lies?

We're so proud to be a part of #ReadForEmpathy 2025 collection with KING OF NOTHING by Nathanael Lessore! The collection is such an important toolkit to help young people learn more about empathy and put it into action: https://loom.ly/iOl8gC4

We're celebrating an incredible award win for Nathanael Lessore today: winner of the Jhalak Children's & YA prize 2025 with THE KING OF NOTHING! We feel so honoured to be the home of Nate's books - insanely funny, relatable, incredibly timely, and written for every single young reader to enjoy 👑

Happy publication day to Olivia Harvey's must-have, messy summer read: ROCK THE BOAT 🛥️ 🛟 bi love triangle drama 🛟 the chaos of 'Below Deck' 🛟 our latest new adult release Out now! https://lnk.to/RockTheBoat #RockTheBoat

A full trailer! A Gracie Abrams song! The whole cast! June 18th, we're so ready for you #wewereliars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoMLuX42pCk

Books x friends x Korean food 👌🫶 @hotkeybooks.bsky.social #booksky #koreanfood #bingsu #bookevent @tswitherspoon.bsky.social #bingsufortwo

We’re so proud to share that #KingOfNothing by the very talented Nathanael Lessore is the WINNER of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2025 in the Older Readers category! Huge congratulations Nate 🎉🤩 #WaterstoneChildrensBookPrize #WCBP25 #OlderReaders

#BookReview: CAPITANA by Cassandra James @hotkeybooks.bsky.social sifaelizabethreads.wordpress.com/2025/04/10/b...

The Times children's book of the week is 'What Happens Online' by Nathanael Lessore. A brilliant, big-hearted book about boyhood. (Also contains good jokes about Kanye, Ozempic, bubble tea and Shoe Zone. 💪) @hotkeybooks.bsky.social #childrensbooks www.thetimes.com/article/9dab...

What an AMAZING BOOK! I beg you to read this! Reviewed on the podcast today. @hotkeybooks.bsky.social

Disturbing and brilliant #YA verse novel about county lines, drug trafficking, friendship, family, grief and redemption from @tiafisher.bsky.social @hotkeybooks.bsky.social. A brutal gut-punch underlaid with tenderness and love.