Sunday Staff Reads! 📖 Becca & Keela have been reading the Women’s Prize winner The Correspondent, the heartwarming story of a reclusive letter writer who opens up her world to new opportunities ✍️

We are in love with these new ‘brief encounters’ from Vintage 🫰 Tiny, timeless, & beautifully designed, there’s one for each week of the year.

Sun-drenched, heart-felt, page-turning Books of the Month! 🌞 July’s picks have seduction, betrayal, cliffhangers, troubled relationships, Greek mountains, Scottish legends, teen prodigies & one mysterious bar serving magical drinks 🍸

We are thrilled to have Silvia Moreno-Garcia making a rare trip to Scotland for The Intrigue 🚬🕶️ A noir mystery following a handsome conman & the young woman who might scupper all his plans. Get a ticket at www.waterstones.com/events/silvia-moreno-garcia-launches-the-intrigue/glasgow-argyle-street

Do it! Join us. I'll tell you all about my really horrible "haunted cheese" story!

Pride Month may be coming to an end, but there’s fabulous queer reading to be done all year round 🌈🫰 These are just a few of the new books catching our eye.

Join us for an evening of thrills & spills, psychological horrors & mysterious strangers! 💀 British Fantasy Award winner Rhiannon Grist & shop fave Neil Williamson will be discussing their chilling new books with Rebecca Wojturska of Haunt Publishing, horror fans this is an evening not to miss!

I'm going on tour this July to the UK to promote the release of my latest novel, The Intrigue. I'll be visiting Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Edinburgh and London. ⁠Book your tickets: geni.us/SilviaMGTour PS: My publisher is trying to arrange a signing in Dublin but we haven't secured that yet.

The perfect summer escape! 🌞 We wish we could run away to Villa Coco, with its eccentric baroness and her litter of pugs, collection of equally quirky friends, and trove of antiques under the Tuscan sun - an ideal spot for a young American archivist to find himself.

Hey! In a few weeks I'm going to be at @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social with @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social and @beckywojturska.bsky.social talking about scary stories. You'll be able to buy Rhiannon's ace debut novel, Home Sick, and my brand new collection, Hand-Me-Downs too. Come join us...if you dare!

Queen of Thrills Lisa Jewell joins us for a lunchtime signing of her new book It Could Have Been Her, another page-turning, pulse-pounding story from one of our favourite authors. Reserve your spot to meet Lisa and get a copy of her new book at 50% off included with your ticket!

#Glasgow Join our Neil Williamson, Rhiannon Grist and Rebecca Wojturska and celebrate Neil's new Horror collection Hand-Me-Downs (PS Publishing). Get your tickets below and we'll see you at @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social on 14th July! @neilwilliamson.bsky.social @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social (1/2)

Sunday Staff Reads! 📖 This week Gill has been reading The Expansion Project, a surreal, severance-esque satire of corporate life where ‘bring-your-daughter-to-work day’ starts of a dizzyingly absurd chain of events 🕴️

Wild women & powerful folklore! Kim Willis gives us a sneak peek of what to expect at her upcoming event with us on June 23rd - ancient matriarchs, shape-shifting enchantresses, scaly nymphs & goddesses who once commanded our lands. www.waterstones.com/bookshops/gl...

Alan Parks & his soldier-turned-spy Gunner return with Deception 🕵🏻‍♂️ New York, nazis, the mob, a growing body count, this heart racing thriller has it all! Don’t miss out on a ticket, available now on Waterstones.com

Sunday Staff Reads! 📖 Jack’s pride month pick is All Them Dogs, the bold, brash, & violently compelling story of Tony Ward’s return to Dublin & the gangland life he can’t seem to escape. Brilliantly written & as surprising as a headbutt, this is a debut not to be missed 👊

Evenings at the bookshop in June 📚 We’ve got a stacked list of authors visiting us this month, come along to meet an old favourite or discover a new one! 🎟️ Browse the list & get tickets at Waterstones.com/events

The queer dark academia romp of your dreams has arrived! ✨ Magic, mayhem, torture & toxic friends, don’t miss out on meeting Lex & discovering the world of Briar Jones at our launch next Friday! Grab a ticket now at Waterstones.com, what a way to start pride month 🔮

A high NRG, whip-smart look at the state of modern Britain through the eyes of a disparate band of rave rebels. 🤘🏻 The brilliant Graeme Armstrong, author of The Young Team returns with a story that runs from the Coatbridge Time Capsule all the way to national raving resistance.

A breathtaking epic of hope, love, family and Irish history 🗺️ The incomparable Maggie O’Farrell returns with a story set in the aftermath of famine as a father & son set out to map the country for the ordnance survey.

Meet one of our new books of the month, take them up to the cafe and they’ll buy you a hot drink ☕️ Bookish date for one please xx

Sunday Staff Reads! 📖 This week Flora has been reading Hyperpolitics, a short sharp look at our current moment, where every aspect of life feels tensely political but change seems more distant than ever.

A Saint who trades secrets join forces with a woman who sees the dead, in a search for answers & a ghost in a lonely mansion on the moors 🕯️❤️‍🔥 Discover Weavingshaw at our launch with Heba Al-Wasity & Kirsty Logan! www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

Grab your biggest tote of books and get outside while the sun shines! ☀️🕶️📙

Join us to celebrate Kim Willis’s new book exploring the lost goddesses of Britain, No Fair Maidens 🌻🧝🏻‍♀️🌾 With stories of Arianrhod, Melusine, Cerridwen & more, Kim charts a new lineage of womanhood from ancient to modern www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

The unstoppable Freida McFadden returns with another stylish & sinister thriller about a wronged wife who in the midst of divorce proceedings takes an unhealthy interest in her husband's new young lover

Andrew Raymond, author of the DCI Lomond books, joins us to launch The Long Isle, the first chapter in a new Hebridean crime series, with author & lawyer William McIntyre 🕵🏻‍♂️ www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

If you could take a train to your past, where would you get off? 🚂✨ Matt Haig returns with a truly heartwarming time travel adventure through love and memory.

“A dark, alluring romp set in a magical school for the corrupt elite where secrets hide around every corner & torture is integral to the syllabus” 🕯️📚 It can only be the brilliant Lex Croucher, joining us to launch their new novel. Summon your ticket now ✨ www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

Glasgow’s warmest welcome home to Douglas Stuart & his remarkable new novel John of John 💙 Grab your signed copy of this heartbreakingly beautiful story in store now while they last! Don’t miss out on a brilliant night like this, check out all our events at Waterstones.com 🎟️

Dark, intoxicating, & beautifully haunted, meet ROTTENHEART 🫀 Kat Dunn will be launching her sapphic reimagining of Hamlet with us next month! It’s going to be a gorgeously chilling evening you won’t want to miss🕯️ www.waterstones.com/events/kat-d...

Glasgow fantasy fans! You don’t want to miss this! Urban fantasy, 40s Hong Kong, ancient myths, ghosts! Grab a ticket now - www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

Sunday Staff Reads! 📖 This week Mark has been revisiting his youth with this republished 90s horror, a hazy vampiric tour around the erotic underworld of Hollywood.

Thrills and spills! Murder and mayhem! Follow the clues to an excellent read with this towering stack of new crime and mystery paperbacks 🕵️‍♀️

Sara Sheridan returns with another immersive and evocative journey into the past 💎 It’s a high-stakes historical treasure hunt packed with secrets and puzzling clues.

Sunyi Dean joins us to launch The Girl With A Thousand Faces, set in Hong Kong after WW2, a ghost-talker with no memory faces off with a vengeful spirit & its mysterious connection to her past 👻 www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

Return to the magical world of Dream Harbor 🌻💖 After failed romances lead to rumours of her flower shop being cursed, Daisy finds solace in the arms of a newcomer to town 💐

Sunday Staff Reads! 📖 This week Jack read City of Rats, set in the (literal) underground of 70s Paris, it follows the picaresque adventures of some transgressive vermin - this rediscovered queer classic is a wild ride not for the faint of heart 🐀

Books are still the coolest accessory 🕶️📗🍊 We’ve been seeing these titles everywhere recently, they’re some of the must-reads for spring ‘26

Looking forward to chatting with @sunyidean.com on May 26th. If you enjoyed The Book Eaters, you're going to want to hear all about The Girl With A Thousand Faces. Come join us!

It’s gonna be May! Jump into one of our excellent monthly selections - Lily King’s shortlisted love story 🌼 a puzzling mystery touched by grief 🃏 a dazzling return to wonderland 🐇 or the benefits of a good walk 👞

Coming up at Argyle Street! ➡️ Ancient Rome to modern anxieties, Scottish history to Chinese folklore, don’t miss out on an evening meeting the author of your next favourite book. Get tickets at Waterstones.com

What happens when you give a Glasgow teenager angelic visitations, messianic powers & visions that span decades? An audacious & totally original story of loss and joy that you won’t expect.

Sunday Staff Reads! 📖 This week Emma has been reading The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, a gory vampire western where the meeting of colonisers & native Americans fuels a bloody revenge thriller.

Sun’s out, buns out! 🍔 Burger buns that is. Jamie Oliver is back to heat up your summer with excellent barbecue recipes & delicious sides you’ll want to bring out at your next garden party ☀️

How much Scottish History can we pack into an hour? To celebrate the launch of The Shortest History of Scotland we’ve got Murray Pittock in conversation with Zoe Venditozzi, author of How To Kill A Witch, to explore the ups & downs of our fair country 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 www.waterstones.com/events/the-h...

It’s books & flowers day! 💐📙 A tradition that started in Catalonia to celebrate their patron saint’s day, it’s a sweet tradition we can get behind 🫰

Coming up on Thursday at @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social - if you're in the Glasgow area, check it out www.waterstones.com/events/a-cel...

Discover Agnes Owens, who Alasdair Gray called the most unfairly neglected of Scottish authors, her writing brims with dark humour & sharp observations of real life. She’s being reprinted in her centenary year & we couldn’t be happier!

In an age of AI therapists & digital overload we could all use a little human help with our anxieties🫣 Luckily Josh Fletcher is on hand with the perfect balance of humour & expertise. He’ll be launching his new book, signing copies, and answering questions 🧠 www.waterstones.com/events/an-an...