Alice Oseman
When Alice Oseman created the first volume of Heartstopper on her own, she couldn’t have foreseen what a phenomenon it would become. As the...
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Andrew Sean Greer
Andrew Sean Greer writes the kind of novels that you want to press into others' hands when what they need is a book filled with charm, comed...
Meet the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2026 Shortlist Authors
The Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize Shortlist is here and it's time to meet the class of 2026. With books that take us from modern America t...
Lily King
Through her writing about love, Lily King has made readers care deeply about her characters and what life does to them. A year on from Heart...
Elizabeth Strout
Having captivated readers with the eponymous Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton , Elizabeth Strout has moved down the coast from Maine to Mass...
Sathnam Sanghera
George Michael managed to be both enigmatic and to share some of the most personal details about his life but superfan Sathnam Sanghera has...
Maggie O'Farrell
Following the phenomenal success of Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell returns with Land, an epic novel of upheaval and loss beginning in 19th century...
Siri Hustvedt
When Siri Hustvedt lost her husband, Paul Auster, to cancer, her immediate instinct was to write. This, in fact, has always been her instinc...
Douglas Stuart
When Douglas Stuart won the Booker Prize with his debut, Shuggie Bain, it announced the arrival of a distinctive new voice in fiction. Now,...
Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane
Artist Jackie Morris and writer Robert Macfarlane have already blessed us with The Lost Words and The Lost Spells and their third project to...
Patrick Radden Keefe
The investigative reporting of Patrick Radden Keefe has already given us non-fiction classics like Say Nothing and Empire of Pain. In London...
Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2026
For the first time ever, the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize assembles our shortlisted authors and illustrators for a special interview in...
Antony Beevor
The legends surrounding the figure of Rasputin are so well-trodden we may think we know the story, but how did a man born as a peasant come...
George Saunders
Booker Prize-winner George Saunders takes us back to that space between life and death in his new novel, Vigil, leading to a fruitful conver...
Julian Barnes
Booker Prize-winner Julian Barnes has a bibliography that would keep a reader happy for many months, even years, but with mention that his l...
Gareth Southgate
From the discipline he learnt from his grandfather and the integrity from his parents, to the lessons learned from everything from inflatabl...
Val McDermid
Continuing the seasonal series after Michael Morpurgo’s Spring, Val McDermid turns from crime to Winter, with its festivals, rituals and new...
Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie ’s return to fiction sees him sharing a collection of stories which look at the questions that await us all at the end of our...
RF Kuang in conversation with Samantha Shannon
Join us for what promises to be an unmissable evening with bestselling author R.F. Kuang, as we celebrate the publication of her much-antici...
Philip Pullman
30 years after he introduced the world to Lyra Belacqua, Philip Pullman launched the final volume in his Book of Dust series: The Rose Field...