Tag Archives: author

Children’s Book of the Month – May

Florentyna Martin introduces the magic of "Maytilda" and the myriad of marvellous events taking place in our bookshops across the country in support of our new charity partner: the Children’s Reading Fund... 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 →

The Joy of Rejection

 Jasper Gibson, co-founder of comedy website The Poke, finds similarities between the search for love and that for a publishing deal... Read more →

Children’s Book of the Month – April

With Light by Michael Grant as our Children's Book of the Month for April, Florentyna Martin looks at the Gone series... Read more →

From this position…

Matthew O'Donoghue of our Publisher Liaison team takes a look at two recent books from Dave Eggers and George Saunders, and bravely refuses to make an egg/Easter joke... Read more →

North, Towards Home – Wiley Cash

Wiley Cash, author of the New York Times bestseller A Land More Kind That Home, writes exclusively for Waterstones.com/blog about turning the real life story of a young autistic boy's murder into fiction. Read more →

Chinua Achebe dies at 82

The celebrated author Chinua Achebe has died in Boston at the age of 82. Read more →

Sita Brahmachari on The Arrival

With our Children's Book Prize winners announcement coming this evening, former winner Sita Brahmachari tells us how that recognition spurred her on as a writer, and about her most recent project adapting a graphic novel for the stage... Read more →

Taking Vampires Seriously – K J Wignall

KJ Wignall, author of the young adult vampire series The Mercian Trilogy, looks at the problems facing any writer who wants to dodge the pitfalls of popular folklore and write fantasy which is grounded in a reality... Read more →

From this position…

In the first of a new series, Matthew O'Donoghue of our Publisher Liaison team takes a look at two recent books from and about David Foster Wallace... Read more →

On slippery spaces and not being an historian – Elizabeth Fremantle

          Novelist Elizabeth Fremantle, whose novel Queen's Gambit is published today, talks about walking the dangerous line where fact meets fiction... Read more →

In pursuit of “the zone”: Suzanne Joinson

Suzanne Joinson, author of A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar is in search of that elusive "perfect" place to sit and write... Read more →

How much should a narrator know? Matthew Reynolds

Novelist Matthew Reynolds considers whether too much knowledge can be a bad thing... Read more →

Children’s Book of the Month – March

Florentyna Martin, Lead Bookseller at our Covent Garden bookshop, takes a closer look at The King of Space by Waterstones Children's Book Prize winning author Jonny Duddle. Read more →

“I’ve become obsessed by hotels” – Deborah Moggach

Deborah Moggach, author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, explains what it is that compels her to use these homes away from home as settings in her novels - most recently Heartbreak Hotel... Read more →