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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 →

Judged by their covers: Cara and the cult collections

With the popularity of eBooks, publishers are becoming more and more creative with the design of the physical book. Cara Fielder takes a look at books that are not only beautiful on their own, but demand to sit together as part of a full collection...

“My name means ‘red’ in Scottish so I do feel some family connection” Christopher Reid

The poet Christopher Reid talked to us about his Two Red Poems which are featured in Red – The Waterstones Anthology, and the up and coming poets who are influencing his writing today.

Cathy Galvin, the editor of our anthology Red, talked to us in depth about the contributing writers and how the very format of the anthology is both traditional and at the cutting edge of a new kind of bite-sized publishing. Read more →

Introducing Red – The Waterstones Anthology

Today we're proud to celebrate the launch of Red, our inaugural anthology. We have commissioned eighteen great writers to reflect the mood and changes of 2012. Through the eyes of some of the leading fiction writers, essayists, and poets, it offers an immediate reaction to the highs and lows of the past year. Read more →