🚨 EXCITING JOB ALERT 🚨 We're looking for a Digital Marketing Executive to join our award-winning digi team. Responsibilities include creating paid digital campaigns across social and finding new ways to reach our readers across all our books 👇 buff.ly/3LOXzO5

Celebrate two of the most 🔥 🔥 books of the summer at Waterstones Trafalgar Sq. later this month as August Thompson is joined by Oisín McKenna to discuss his debut novel ANYONE'S GHOST 🌇 🚬 Get your 🎟️ here: buff.ly/3LUnP9U

Sarah Manguso’s latest novel, Liars, tells the story of the unraveling of a marriage. She discusses the work—and it's larger themes—with Emily Ratajkowski. vogue.com/article/emily-…

Take Jen Hadfield's quiz all about the Shetland dialect and you could win a signed copy of Storm Pegs and a hamper full of handmade items from Shetland creatives and artisans. How many can you guess correctly? ➡️ nationalbooktokens.com/quizzes/can-yo…

In the words of one of its brilliant reader reviews, Liars is ‘100% a horror story, and the horror is heterosexual marriage’. As another puts it: '10/10, no notes'. Pre-order your copy now for August 22nd 👇 buff.ly/4fDcTLj

"A bookshelf can reflect something about its possessor’s psyche, their politics, the things that they are interested in..." The Centre author ayesha manazir siddiqi talks to @Bookanista about reading, favourite books and what a bookshelf reveals about a person. buff.ly/3SMWTwv

We're honoured to be publishing the new book from Garth Greenwell, award-winning author of Cleanness, this autumn. The cover features an iconic painting by Sir David Hockney, and it’s every bit as beautiful as the words inside. Pre-order now Waterstones buff.ly/4clpQXo

I am immensely grateful to David Hockney for allowing us to use his iconic work on this beautiful cover. SMALL RAIN is out in the UK from Picador Books on 19 Sept. Preorder link Waterstones below.

A generous and profound novel centred on a hospital stay, Garth Greenwell's SMALL RAIN interrogates love, care, death and the beauty of life with breathtaking vividity and grace. Pre-order here: exyu.short.gy/YkKYun

If you're looking for another incentive to grab a copy of James by Percival Everett and MARTYR! by Kaveh Akbar, how about this endorsement from none other than the one and only Barack Obama? 👀 A fantastic summer reading list, if I do say so myself. 👏

Many congratulations to Olivia Laing on The Garden Against Time being shortlisted for the 2024 Nature Writing Shortlist for The Wainwright Prize! For more details: The Wainwright Prize #WainwrightPrize #NatureWriting #WainwrightPrize24

Happy birthday to the Sunday Times bestseller list! To celebrate 50 years of the charts, they have calculated the nation’s most popular books over the past five decades and we're delighted to have 8 books on the list. Have you read any of these? 💕 buff.ly/46QJ3z8

It doesn’t get any less insane seeing this in print. It’s a book about *law*, for crying out loud. Written by somebody who - I have it on very good authority from a number of legitimately concerned citizens - isn’t even a real barrister. Happy Sunday to you all x

🎉 HEADLINE SPONSOR REVEAL! 🎉 We're excited to have the Pan Macmillan as our HEADLINE SPONSOR for the third consecutive year at this year's Black British Book Festival. We appreciate their consistent support and partnership in celebrating our Black British authors.

'Greenwell has created something so rich, so important, so brutally honest that it acts as a new landmark in gay literature.' Pan Mac staff make the case for their favourite books. This month: What Belongs to You. buff.ly/3YZX6AB

From the bestselling author of THE NIX, Nathan Hill's 'dazzlingly detailed state-of-the-nation satire' WELLNESS reimagines the love story with healthy doses of insight, irony and heart 💊 Out today in paperback 💊

We’re thrilled to have two books on the brilliant #BGPrize2024 longlist. Congratulations to all the authors featured 👏👏👏

The longlist for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize has been revealed, and we're thrilled to publish two of the brilliant titles featured! Judgement at Tokyo Everyone Who is Gone is Here Find out more about both books here buff.ly/3Mz4riV

Introducing The Boy From the Sea! Get ready to fall in love with Ambrose Bonnar: more comfortable at sea than on land, full of love but unsure how to show it… this is Picador’s lead debut of 2025 🌊 🌊 🌊 Available to pre-order now Waterstones

How Was It For You? by Eve Smith received a negative review in The Times and The Sunday Times recently. Eve is anonymous, and doesn't have her own social channels, so we wanted to give her the opportunity to respond 👇