We're loving our non-fic botm, Abroad in Japan by Chris Broad 🌸🇯🇵🌸

From missile incidents to love hotels, Broad's hilarious and insightful travelogue of Japan is based on his numerous misadventures in the decade he arrived to teach English.

Our children's book of the month is this thrilling immersive fantasy, Greenwild: The World Behind the Door by Pari Thomson.

A boarding-school runaway, a botanical genius, and a seriously feisty cat who join forces to protect an enchant paradise from dark magic 🌿✨️🦜🧭🍃

Fiction BOTM 🌸💍💒🌸

A lyrical, exquisitely constructed exploration of the complex bonds of family set across one summer's day, full of love and betrayal, hope and joy, heartbreak, and grief.

Perfect for fans of Maggie O'Farrell, Tom Lake, and Lucinda Riley.

It's scary how much fun we had with Jennifer Killick celebrating #worldbookday2024 , hearing all about the inspiration behind her books & creating our own monster. 🪳🕷🪱

We've sold out of her world book day title but have plenty of her other series in stock & signed, too!

Bookseller Jess absolutely loves our SSF book of the month, The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi 🌊🧭⚔️🏴‍☠️💰

This rip-roaring first instalment of a fantastical new series centres around a notorious retired pirate and the magical adventure that just might prove her undoing.

Us: Kelly, can you please do some work today.

Kelly: Sorry, can't talk! I'm in Elfhame.

Hot Key Books ✨📚 Holly Black

Today's the day that bookseller Kelly has (very, very impatiently 😒) been waiting for!

To celebrate, Hot Key Books ✨📚 have kindly given us a limited number of goodies to gift the first few customers 👀

We're ecstatic to announce that New York Times bestselling author Maria V. Snyder will be visiting us as she embarks on her first UK tour in 10 years. 

For more details & tickets, visit -
waterstones.com/events/an-even…

#MariaVSnyder #PoisonStudy

WORLD BOOK DAY GIVEAWAY 📚

To celebrate World Book Day, we are giving one lucky person a £30 Waterstones Staines 📚 voucher! We want to see your WBD fancy dress costumes inspired by your favourite book characters! 🔖 Enter ➡️ bit.ly/2LlXt4E

T&C's apply! #WinWithVisitStaines

We're delighted to welcome Rachel Patterson, High Priestess of the Kitchen Witch Coven & Elder at the online Kitchen Witch School of Natural Witchcraft, for our 1st pagan book event ✨️🕯✨️

For more details & tickets, visit waterstones.com/events/an-even…

Join us as we welcome Georgia Summers and On hiatus—writing cave! on 15/2 to celebrate the release of #TheCityofStardust ✨️🗝🚪✨️

More details & tickets here - waterstones.com/events/in-conv…

We're thrilled to announce our first event of 2025 - Murder in the bookshop with Robert Thorogood, Tom Hindle & J. M. Hall 🩸🔪🔍🕵‍♂️

Head to our website for more information and to buy tickets.

If, like bookseller Kelly, you love The Nutcracker, then The Kingdom of Sweets by Erika Johansen is a must-read! 🎄✨️🍬🍪🍨🍫✨️🎄

'An enjoyable and interesting twist on The Nutcracker tale that is reminiscent of Dickens' A Christmas Carol' - Kelly

Have you seen our brilliant books of the year?

Our in store favourites are Impossible Creatures and Murdle.

Thank you Mel Taylor-Bessent for visiting us this morning and spreading lots of christmas cheer 🎄🎁🎅

Signed copies of all 3 The Carrolls books available in store now!

It's finally here! Heartstopper vol.5 is now in store 💙💖💚

#heartstopper #aliceoseman

Join us and Mel Taylor-Bessent for some Christmas crafting on Saturday 9th Dec at 10am 🎨🎄🧑‍🎄🎁

Mel will also be signing copies of her books - the perfect stocking fillers!