The Honest Toddler on food shopping, part one…
In the first of a two part extract, The Honest Toddler guides parents through the potential minefield that is shopping at a supermarket... Read more
Category Archives: Humour
Our Man In The Field – Matt Rudd
Matt Rudd, author of The English: A Field Guide, relates the challenges he faced "in the field" researching his book...
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How do you beat Cooking With Poo? The Diagram Prize shortlist 2013
The Bookseller magazine have announced today the shortlist for the Diagram Prize 2013 for Oddest Title of the Year... Read more Text From Dog: New Year’s Resolutions
Happy New Year from October Jones, and Dog...
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October Jones, the owner of the internet's most famous (only?) text messaging dog has been kind enough to forward a couple of message exchanges he's had recently exclusively to Waterstones.com/blog- here's the second one for you to take a look at...
Read more Text From Dog: Ball
October Jones, the owner of the internet's most famous (infamous) text messaging dog-come-superhero has been kind enough to forward a couple of message exchanges he's had recently exclusively to Waterstones.com/blog- here's the first one...
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Laughing all the way: ten comic, quirky, and curious books…
Cara Fielder has pulled together her top ten most amusing books - from perennial classics to topical parodies and... dogs underwater?
Riddle me this… Answer John Hegley’s riddles to win a signed book
We spoke to the poet John Hegley on Tuesday, and asked him to read some of his riddle poems from his new book Peace, Love & Potatoes.
Now we're offering three lucky winners the chance to win a signed copy of the book, by answering the two riddles below, that he made up on the spot.
Read more Drummond Moir on the editor’s bane…
Drummond Moir, editor of books such as The Tell-Tale Brain and the sensational The Yellow Birds tells us what led him to compile a book focussed entirely on his nemesis.... The typo. Read more 
