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Women’s Prize For Fiction 2013: Shortlist announced

Hilary Mantel may not walk away with the prize so easily this time as she faces stiff competition on the Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist... 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 →

Women’s Prize For Fiction 2013: Longlist announced

Formerly known as the Orange Prize, the Women's Prize for Fiction returns this year with a longlist of familiar names and rising talent. Read more →

Top ten books for Mother’s Day

With Mother's Day coming up next Sunday - don't say we didn't remind you - Cara Fielder pulls together her top ten suggestions for the perfect book treat for your mum. And this being Cara, you can be sure this is not your ordinary selection...

Costa Book of the Year 2012 – Hilary Mantel does the double

Hilary Mantel has set another record by becoming the first writer to win both the Man Booker Prize and the Costa Book of the Year in the same year. Read more →

Mantel favourite as women writers sweep the board at the Costa Awards

Hilary Mantel is the firm favourite to become the overall winner of the 2012 Costa Book Award, after Bring up the Bodies won the Novel category last night. Read more →

Mantel, Rankin and EL James win at the National Book Awards

Double Booker-winner, Hilary Mantel was announced as Waterstones UK author of the Year last night at the Specsavers National Book Awards.

On the first day of Christmas, my true love READ to me – Christmas round-ups contd.

This weekend's papers saw the continuation of the Christmas Books of the Year round-ups - and we are bringing you a selection of choices by some well-known writers and a smattering of celebrities. Read more →

Russell Norman’s Polpo wins Waterstones Book of the Year

Russell Norman's Polpo: A Venetian Cookbook (Of Sorts) has won the inaugural Waterstones Book of the Year award. Read more →

My Book of the Year… Bring Up The Bodies

Chris White, our fiction buyer and resident Hilary Mantel fanatic tells us why Bring Up The Bodies is the only choice for Waterstones Book of the Year... Read more →

What the papers say…’Tis the season of the Christmas round-up…

Yes, the season of the Christmas books round-ups is here. Where the line between nepotism and genuine appreciation becomes slightly more blurred as some of our favourite authors pick their books of the year... Read more →

My Book of the Year… The Old Ways

Steven Cooper from our events team sets out his reasons why Robert Macfarlane's The Old Ways should be Waterstones Book of the Year... Read more →

Costa Book Awards shortlists announced

Hilary Mantel is nominated yet again as Bring up the Bodies heads the list for the Costa Novel Award. Meanwhile, Waterstones Book of the Year nominee Artemis Cooper's Patrick Leigh-Fermor: An Adventure is listed for the Biography Award. Read more →

Waterstones Book of the Year shortlist announced…

Update 29/11/12: Polpo announced as winner of Waterstones Book of the Year. Today, we are excited to announce the shortlist for our inaugural Waterstones Book of the Year. Read more →