Pym crop

Excellent Woman

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

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
Sprout characters

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
The Old Ways

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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