I cannot stop thinking about this horror. This The New York Times piece is one of the more thorough on the wider context of femicide. We should have spent this Olympics talking about real, culturally-nuanced dangers facing women, not drumming up panic over hormones. nytimes.com/2024/09/05/spo…

Happy publication day to the one and only Michael Palin. There and Back is the latest in his bestselling series of diaries and traces a decade of seismic shifts in the world and in Michael's life. There and Back is out today: geni.us/Michael_Palin_…

The book I struggled most to set down this summer. It’s gone with me on trains, through parks, in baths, and it has ruined my social plans. I adore it. Please read it so we can talk about it.

Thank you so much to Lindsay Terrell and W&N for this fabulous package to celebrate the publication of #Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis in February next year. I have to admit that I loved the premise as soon as I heard about it, and you need this on your 2025 Reading Radar™️!

We're thrilled that The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride has been chosen as the Waterstones Fiction Book of the Month for October. Read this 'uplifting tale of kindness and community' (The Observer), out now in paperback: waterstones.com/campaign/books…

We're so excited to be sharing one of the sharpest, funniest and most original new voices in fiction, beloved already by Marian Keyes, India Knight and Dolly Alderton. You can request to read Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis on Netgalley now: netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book/4…

Both of us enjoying some peace this morning before the chaos starts! Is #Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis on your 2025 Reading Radar™️? If it isn’t, it really should be, because it’s so good. Thank you so much to Lindsay Terrell and W&N for my proof copy.

Happy Publication Day to Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey! Their Origin Story Books offer insight into some of our most fraught political terms, giving us the tools to have better conversations about the world we want to build. Available now from Waterstones. geni.us/Ian_Dunt_Doria…

We're thrilled to see The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store in The Times and The Sunday Times bestseller list this week! James McBride's exhilarating tale of kindness and community is @waterstones Fiction Book of the Month for October. Don't miss out 👉 brnw.ch/21wNRoR...

We're thrilled that The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World from bestselling author Bettany Hughes💙 is Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month. A very happy publication day! 'A wondrous, wonderful achievement' Sir Stephen Fry Out now in paperback waterstones.com/book/the-seven…

What a gorgeous launch for Ali Smith’s Gliff at The Portobello Bookshop last night. Hard to imagine a more joyful author, bookshop or cover. Reading should let us go inside somewhere else without ever leaving ourselves, says Ali, & the physicality of this book reflects that when you open it.

Absolutely thrilled that FUNDAMENTALLY has been recommended by The Bookseller as an Editor’s Pick! Thanks so much Lauren Brown for this generous write up!

Love this so much 🤍

Yassss, so wildly deserved for genius Hennah 🤍

So deserved 🙌

Pulling off razor sharp comedy about a very serious subject is no mean feat and in this Shelfie video, Nussaibah Younis Younis shares some of the books that helped shape her electrifying debut novel, Fundamentally: waterstones.com/book/fundament…