Category Archives: Guest post

Growing up: Moving from Children’s to adults – Lauren St John

Lauren St John is well known for her Children's books - the White Giraffe and Laura Marlin series as well as her new One Dollar Horse books - but this month she has published her first book for adults. Here she tells us a little more about writing The Obituary Writer... Read more →

What is there for the middle-aged male to look forward to?

On this Father's Day, Marcus Berkmann, author of A Shed of One's Own, a book which aims to help men get through middle-age without the crisis, takes a look at the significance of the event...  Read more →

Sprout’s BookClub, 15/6/13

Turns out, Dan Brown can be very persuasive... Read more →

Excellent Woman

Melissa Cox from our buying team tells you why you should stop whatever you are doing and read Barbara Pym... Read more →

RJ Palacio on Wonder

RJ Palacio discusses her novel Wonder, which won Best Fiction for 5-12s at this year's Waterstones Children's Book Prize ceremony and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal... Read more →

M.L. Stedman on The Light Between Oceans

M.L. Stedman tells us a little more about her debut novel The Light Between Oceans... Read more →

You can leave your hat on… The Loves of the Artists

Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones urges us take off the rose-tinted spectacles, and perhaps put on some Barry White instead, when we consider the Renaissance greats... Read more →

Sprout’s BookClub, 8/6/13

Thought-bubble speaking five month old baby Sprout has an impromptu visit from an American author who knows a thing or two about adjectives. And secret codes... Read more →

Book of the Month – June

The Old Ways was shortlisted last year for the inaugural Waterstones Book of the Year and now Robert Macfarlane tells us why in the case of the new paperback edition, which is our Book of the Month for June, he'd be happy for you to judge this book by its cover...

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Scottish Book of the Month – June

Former Waterstones bookseller James Robertson introduces The Professor Of Truth, our Scottish Book of the Month... Read more →

Sprout’s BookClub, 1/6/13

It turns out that Sprout for one has been listening to Herman Melville ... Read more →

From this position…

Matthew O'Donoghue looks at the important role vulgarity has to play in language and literature... Read more →

Sprout’s BookClub, 25/5/13

Sprout gets a bathtime reading from Herman Melville... Read more →

Rising sexual violence in India forced me to write The Sea of Innocence

Kishwar Desai explains how her growing anger at the treatment of women and girls in India drove her to write her latest novel... Read more →

Gerbrand Bakker on winning the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize…

Gerbrand Bakker, winner of this year's Independent Foreign Fiction Prize explains how his book The Detour took him from North Wales, to Amsterdam, and finally the Royal Institute of British Architects - where he learned to love champagne... Read more →