It's the first day of #CheltLitFest 🎉

We're so excited to be back in Montpellier Gardens for the next 10 days with leading authors, thinkers and artists 📖

And what better way to start the Festival than with Michel Roux, Rachel Parris and Chris Packham 📚

See you all soon!

#NormalWomen make history.

The culmination of a magnificent life's work, Philippa Gregory has undertaken a radical retelling of our nation’s story, a story powered by normal women.

Pre-order your signed copy from @waterstones ow.ly/j8f050PTEFO

Grief does something particular when it hits you young.

LOSING YOUNG is a moving exploration of that transformative pain, from Rachel Wilson, the founder of The Grief Network. Out now!

'Profoundly helpful' Kathryn Mannix

'A brilliant, essential read'
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Independent

Philippa Gregory's landmark new history book, NORMAL WOMEN, is out on the 26th October.

Pre-order your signed copy now: waterstones.com/book/normal-wo…

This just arrived in the post- feels like quite a big moment. ‘To The City’ will be out in February. #ToTheCity #Istanbul ⁦William Collins Books⁩

What would it take to speak with a whale? Are we ready for what they might say?

In HOW TO SPEAK WHALE, Tom Mustill traces his extraordinary investigation into the deep ocean and the cutting-edge science of animal translation.

Out NOW in paperback! 🐳

In 1881, a writer called tattooing ‘an art without a history’. ‘No-one’, it went on, ‘has made it the business of his life to study the development of tattooing.’ - Until now.

PAINTED PEOPLE, 🤓 Dr Matt Lodder 💘's beguiling and intimate look at an untold history is out in paperback now!

Happy paperback publication day to LOST REALMS by Thomas Williams! 🗡️

Uncovering the forgotten origins and untimely demise of Britain’s ancient kingdoms, this is the world of Arthur and Urien; of the Picts and Britons and Saxon migration; of magic and war, myth and miracle.

'Can AI translate what whales are saying to each other?'

The Times on Project Ceti, Tom Mustill and his brilliant book How To Speak Whale.

thetimes.co.uk/article/ai-dec…

This is the world of Arthur and Urien; of the Picts and Britons and Saxon migration; of magic and war, myth and miracle.

In LOST REALMS, Thomas Williams uncovers the forgotten origins and untimely demise of Britain’s ancient kingdoms.

🗡️Out in paperback this Thursday!

'Enthralling’ George Monbiot

Wildlife filmmaker Tom Mustill always liked whales. But when one breached onto his kayak, nearly killing him, he became obsessed.

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HOW TO SPEAK WHALE is out in paperback now!

Incredible words from Damien Lewis for MIRRORS OF GREATNESS by David Reynolds!

Drawing on Britain's ancient landscape and bringing together new archaeological revelations, Thomas Williams spectacularly rebuilds a lost past.

'A potent brew of mythic and material fragments' Christopher Hadley

LOST REALMS is out in paperback 28th September!🗡️

What would it take to speak with a whale? Are we ready for what they might say?

In HOW TO SPEAK WHALE, Tom Mustill traces his extraordinary investigation into the deep ocean and the cutting-edge science of animal translation.

Out NOW in paperback! 🐳

Chloe Bailey and The Bone Chests by Dr Cat Jarman FSA💀 💙

Available here: bit.ly/45Tbon1 #LooksToBooks #VMAs

This is the world of Arthur and Urien; of the Picts and Britons and Saxon migration; of magic and war, myth and miracle.

In LOST REALMS, Thomas Williams uncovers the forgotten origins and untimely demise of Britain’s ancient kingdoms.

🗡️Out in paperback 28th September!

#TheRestlessRepublic is out today in the USA! Story of the British revolution of 1649 & the republic that followed, why it rose (& fell). Radicals & royalists, journalists & visionaries. Giving the lie to idea of the continuity of monarchy. Pls share!
amazon.co.uk/Restless-Repub…

'The Ripper story has never quite left those of us who were close to it.'

Ahead of ITV's #TheLongShadow , The Times and The Sunday Times shared an extract of Michael Bilton's WICKED BEYOND BELIEF.

thetimes.co.uk/article/escape…

This weekend we were thrilled to welcome very special guest Tom Hanks to The London Library!

Tom initially discovered the Library through Simon Winchester's book Knowing What We Know’ and decided to pay us an impromptu visit. We look forward to welcoming him back in the future. 📚

‘Fascinating’ Greta Thunberg

Wildlife filmmaker Tom Mustill always liked whales. But when one breached onto his kayak, nearly killing him, he became obsessed.

🐳🐳🐳

HOW TO SPEAK WHALE is out in paperback now!