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The Book Clinic: Time Travel

This week, Isabel Popple takes a look at books to satisfy your child's craving for time travel... Read more →

The Book Clinic: Inspiring reluctant readers

Isabel Popple, lead bookseller at our Truro bookshop, answers your book-based questions to help you in your search for the perfect read. This week she's looking at books to help your children learn to love reading... 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 →

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 →

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 →

The Book Clinic: Where next after Walliams?

Isabel Popple, lead bookseller at our Truro bookshop, answers your book-based questions to help you in your search for the perfect read. This week she's looking at what books young David Walliams fans can move onto once they've consumed all of his... Read more →

The first books to hit the big screen…

At the request of one of her Twitter followers, Cara Fielder takes a look at the first books that made it from paper to celluloid... 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 →

The art of tattooing

Cara Fielder, also known as The Tattooed Book on her own blog and Twitter, takes a look at some of the best books out now about tattoos. See what she did there? Read more →

The Book Clinic: Too young for teen books

In a new fortnightly feature, Isabel Popple, lead bookseller at our Truro bookshop, answers your book-based questions to help you in your search for the perfect read. This week she's looking at finding great books for advanced younger readers whilst avoiding those teen titles which might not yet be so suitable... Read more →

Writing Vurt: My Waterstones Years by Jeff Noon

To celebrate the publication later this week of the twentieth anniversary edition of his Arthur C Clarke Award winning novel Vurt, Jeff Noon talks about how he wrote the book whilst working as one of our booksellers... Read more →

The best is yet to come…

For Cara Fielder, books in 2013 just keep getting better and better... Read more →

Book of the Month – April

Cara Fielder explains why this month's Waterstones Book of the Month, Kate Atkinson's Life After Life, has had her ignoring her real family and friends in favour of fiction... Read more →

A short list of short stories…

Good short stories are miraculous creations. In just a few paragraphs, sometimes even just a few sentences, a talented author can evoke a multitude of emotions. They are also perfect for people with hectic lifestyles, a quick ten minute read can fill your mind with new characters, locations and ideas just as much as a full novel. Here are three of Cara Fielder's favourite collections that will whisk you away to another world in just moments.