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Let Luhrmann be Luhrmann: The Great Gatsby on film

Dan Lewis desperately wanted to use "The Great Ghastly" as the headline for his review of Baz Luhrmann's film, but found glimpses of great performances visible through the glare of ego... Read more →

Book Club – The House of Rumour

This week's Book Club book of the week is The House Of Rumour by Jake Arnott. Read more →

Howard Jacobson does the double – Zoo Time wins the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2013

Howard Jacobson beats Michael Frayn to a second win in the UK's leading comic fiction prize... Read more →

Dan Brown ignites the Inferno, & win a signed copy

Dan Brown fans queued up at Waterstones Piccadilly to be the first to own a signed copy of the writer's latest thriller, Inferno. But if you couldn't make it, read on to find out how you can win one of five signed copies... Read more →

More Maytilda: A visit from Miss Honey

Last week, Miss Honey from the Royal Shakespeare Company's musical production of Matilda joined children from three schools for a special reading from our Children's Book of the Month at Waterstones Piccadilly... Read more →

Being human

Cara Fielder is taken by philosophical clarity of Matt Haig's new novel The Humans... Read more →

Thirty thoughts about writing – Matt Haig

Matt Haig, whose latest novel The Humans is out today, sets out thirty things that he's learned about life as a writer... Read more →

Book Club – May We Be Forgiven

This week's Book Club book of the week is May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes. Read more →

“I’m holding up a mirror with a crack in it…” Benjamin Percy on Red Moon

Benjamin Percy's latest novel Red Moon reinvents and reinvigorates the werewolf myth, using it as a means of discussing the climate of fear in modern society. In our exclusive interview he explains why he's always been attracted to genre fiction, and tells us what scares him... Read more →

A (very) quick chat with Terry Pratchett

Following his sell-out event at Conway Hall in London discussing The Science of Discworld IV with co-authors Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen, Terry Pratchett grabbed a moment to answer a couple of our questions...

Rhidian Brook on The Aftermath

Rhidian Brook tells us where he found the spark for his latest novel, The Aftermath, which is published today... Read more →

Book of the Month – May

Our book of the month for May is A Delicate Truth, by John le Carré... Read more →

Waterstones eleven: Sam Byers on Idiopathy

Sam Byers' debut novel Idiopathy is our Waterstones eleven choice for May. In our exclusive interview he tells us a little about the book and why he was pleased to leave his twenties behind... Read more →

The UEA Effect

Two recent announcements have led Waterstones UEA manager Margaret Janes to ponder the enormous influence of the Norwich university on the literary world... Read more →

David Mark on how truth bleeds into fiction…

Original Skin is the recently published follow up to crime writer David Mark's Dark Winter, and sees the return of DS Aector McAvoy. Here he talks about his previous life as a crime journalist and how the truth bleeds into his fiction... Read more →