Judi Dench: an encore!
The only thing better than talking to Judi Dench about her career in acting is to talk to her a SECOND time! We were delighted to be invited...
Radio and PodcastLive Radio & Podcasts
Arts
The Waterstones Podcast
Going beyond the book with a wide range of authors to discover the story behind the books we love.
Episodes
20 of 205 episodes
Elif Shafak
Taking inspiration from the life of Gustave Flaubert, the new novel from Elif Shafak flips expectations by giving voice to the women who sha...
Louise Kennedy
Louise Kennedy has followed her Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize-nominated Trespasses with another brilliant novel, Stations, which follows t...
Ann Patchett
After losing her best friend, Ann Patchett poured all that love into her new novel, Whistler. Bringing platonic love to the fore, alongside...
Xand van Tulleken
50% of people in the UK take supplements and the consumer blood-testing industry is now a $128 billion business. But does any of it work? In...
Rebecca F. Kuang returns!
In her most personal novel yet, Rebecca F. Kuang transports readers to Taipei, where Yale student Lily is working on her Chinese language to...
Kate Atkinson
Kate Atkinson 's latest novel beautifully combines her skills in historical detail and crime caper plotting for a story which assembles a mo...
Rebecca Perry
Join us as we celebrate Rebecca Perry as the author of this year's Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize-winner, May We Feed The King. Over a glas...
Jon Ronson
Jon Ronson 's latest journalistic adventure begins with a series of text messages from his son which then leads to an odyssey from reality T...
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...
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...