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A quick interview with Dan Brown

Last night, in his first ever UK event, Dan Brown entertained and enthralled his fans in a packed Freemason's Hall in London. We managed to grab him for a couple of minutes to discuss his latest novel, Inferno, and what he might be writing next... Read more →

Neil Gaiman discusses Fortunately, the Milk…

We took a sneak peak at Neil Gaiman's new children's book, Fortunately, the Milk... and got to ask Neil himself how a tale of one Dad's heroic mission to provide milk for his family ended up as something of a beginner's guide to theoretical physics. With dinosaurs... Read more →

“I’m holding up a mirror with a crack in it…” Benjamin Percy on Red Moon

Benjamin Percy's latest novel Red Moon reinvents and reinvigorates the werewolf myth, using it as a means of discussing the climate of fear in modern society. In our exclusive interview he explains why he's always been attracted to genre fiction, and tells us what scares him... Read more →

Waterstones eleven: Sam Byers on Idiopathy

Sam Byers' debut novel Idiopathy is our Waterstones eleven choice for May. In our exclusive interview he tells us a little about the book and why he was pleased to leave his twenties behind... 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 Sex Lives of African Girls, Taiye Selasi

To celebrate the publication of Taiye Selasi's Ghana Must Go, our Waterstones eleven choice for April, we have an exclusive extract from her short story The Sex Lives of African Girls... Read more →

Waterstones eleven: Ghana Must Go

Taiye Selasi‘s debut novel Ghana Must Go is our Waterstones eleven choice for April. Writing exclusively for Waterstones blog, Taiye tells how she came to be a writer, and in a video interview with us she discusses how the writing of her first novel was like running the 400m... Read more →

Exit, pursued by a bear: Lucy Bailey on directing The Winter’s Tale

One of William Shakespeare's lesser known plays, The Winter's Tale is as much of a challenge to categorise as it can be to stage. Director Lucy Bailey talks here about the play and her production for the Royal Shakespeare Company, which is currently on tour... Read more →

Waterstones eleven: Kevin Maher on The Fields

Journalist Kevin Maher's debut novel The Fields is our Waterstones eleven choice for March. Writing exclusively for Waterstones blog, Kevin tells how he came to write the novel, and in a video interview with us he discusses how his knowledge of the world of film has fed his fiction...

Florentyna Martin, Lead Bookseller at our Covent Garden bookshop, spoke to Lauren St John about our Children's Book of the Month The One Dollar Horse... Read more →

Book Club – John Lanchester on Capital

John Lanchester's Capital, a black comedy of life on one street in London before and after the financial crash is our Book Club book of the week. Read more →

Gavin Extence on The Universe Versus Alex Woods

Today sees the publication of another of our Waterstones Eleven début novels, The Universe Versus Alex Woods... Read more →

Born Weird… An interview with Andrew Kaufman

We spoke to Andrew Kaufman, author of All My Friends Are Superheroes, The Tiny Wife, and The Waterproof Bible, about his latest novel Born Weird... Read more →

Book Club – Gillian Flynn discusses Gone Girl

The thrilling Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn is our Book Club book of the week. Read more →

Two perspectives on Y, by Marjorie Celona

Marjorie Celona's novel Y is one of our Waterstones Eleven selection of the best literary débuts this year, as we announced on Monday. Here, she gives us a glimpse of her feelings having finally completed her book, whilst her editor Sarah Savitt tells us how the book has stayed with her long after her work on it was completed. And we've also got an exclusive video interview with Marjorie... Read more →