Sunshine Man PORTRAIT.mp4
Introducing The Sunshine Man, the heart-stopping new thriller about a terrible crime and a revenge plotted over decades - from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Lamplighters, Emma Stonex.
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In January 1989, Birdie wakes to the news she’s been waiting eighteen years to hear. Jimmy Maguire, the man who killed her sister, has been freed from jail. Birdie leaves for London with a gun and a plan: to find him and make him pay. But there’s another side to the story, and she’s about to enter a world of family lies, worn-out loyalties and long-buried betrayals.
Did Jimmy kill Birdie’s sister, or is he the only one she can really trust? And when the truth is finally revealed, will she choose forgiveness – or retribution?
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'A remarkable novel - heart-wrenching, unflinching and deeply compassionate'
Emylia Hall, author of The Shell House Detectives
'Masterful. Not only suspenseful and exquisitely tense but a nuanced, humanely observed portrait of grief and trauma'
Jo Harkin, author of The Pretender
'Masterful... A deeply thrilling and emotionally rich page-turner. One of my books of the year'
Lucy Clarke, author of The Castaways and One of the Girls
'A brilliantly accomplished story of fractured lives and the long-term reverberations of violent crime, The Sunshine Man is both quietly poetic and fiendishly gripping'
Rosie Walsh, author of The Man Who Didn't Call
'Spellbinding and beautifully written... It’s an unbearably tense thriller and a nuanced examination of fractured lives, grief and trauma'
Nikki May, author of Wahala and This Motherless Land
'A compelling and masterful thriller - with a loaded gun, a car chase and a woman set on revenge. But it's also a study of childhood trauma - and a compassionate tale of grief, resilience, love and absolution'
Susan Fletcher, author of The Night in Question
Coming 1st May 2025
Pre-order your exclusive signed indie edition from your local books
A Thread of Light by Neema Shah
Introducing A Thread of Light 💫 A story of sacrifice, secrets, and betrayal set during London's Blitz, this is the stunning second novel by Neema Shah, author of Kololo Hill.
As the city thrums with Blitz bombers, lonely A.R.P warden Ruby Thacker is drawn into the unfamiliar world of the India Forum. There she meets Kitty, an ambitious barrister doing all she can to free India from British rule.
But Ruby has secret motives for joining the Forum, and when the mysterious Satyajit appears with radical ideas about fighting for freedom, she finds herself torn between head and heart.
Meanwhile Kitty, who has defied her family by leaving Bombay to marry a Muslim, now risks losing him again as the threat of conscription for all Indian men in Britain looms.
As the threat of violence closes in, just how far are they willing to go for the things and the people they love?
The Doctor returns... WHAT, the Sunday Times bestselling collection from the Poet Laureate of Punk @JohnCooperClarke is coming in paperback on 13 February 2025 ➡️
A Rough Trade Book of the Year, his latest poems are as funny, spiky and unmissably alive as ever. James Brown, John F. Kennedy, Jesus Christ: nobody is safe from the punk rocker's acerbic pen – and that's just the first poem.
Available to pre-order or listen to John reading the audiobook NOW.
The Doctor returns... WHAT, the Sunday Times bestselling collection from the Poet Laureate of Punk @JohnCooperClarke is coming in paperback on 13 February 2025 ➡️
A Rough Trade Book of the Year, his latest poems are as funny, spiky and unmissably alive as ever. James Brown, John F. Kennedy, Jesus Christ: nobody is safe from the punk rocker’s acerbic pen – and that’s just the first poem.
Available to pre-order or listen to John reading the audiobook NOW.
Exclusive to Waterstones!
We're thrilled to reveal the gorgeous sprayed edition of The Cat Who Saved the Library, exclusive to @Waterstones! 😍
The eagerly-awaited follow-up to The Cat Who Saved Books finds Natsukawa's adorable feline hero, Tiger, joining forces with book-lover Nanami, as volumes start disappearing from the library shelves under suspicious circumstances.
Translated from Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai, this cosy, magical and heartwarming read is a reminder to never underestimate the power of books.
Out 10th April & available to pre-order now! https://buff.ly/4gYP80D
Long Island - PAPERBACK - TRAILER - PORTRAIT UPDATED.mp4
✨ The love story of the century, coming in paperback on 5th June ✨
Long Island is Colm Tóibín’s masterpiece: an exquisite, exhilarating novel that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and renew the great love that seemed gone forever.
A Book of the Year in The Times, Irish Times, The Guardian, New Statesman, The Independent, The Observer, The New Yorker, The Economist, The Daily Telegraph and The Financial Times
‘Riveting’ Elizabeth Strout
‘Masterful’ Douglas Stuart
‘Wonderful’ Oprah Winfrey
‘Entrancing’ The Economist
‘Magnificent’ The Times
‘Exquisite’ New York Times
‘Gorgeous’ The Independent
‘Dazzling’ The Financial Times
‘A masterclass’ The Guardian
So many of you fell in love with Colm's Long Island last year, and we can't wait to share Eilis' story with even more of you in paperback this summer. Available to pre-order from @Waterstones and wherever else you get your books now.
Anyone else deep in the throes of Christmas present wrapping? We have a tip for you: books are not only timeless and thoughtful presents - they’re easy to wrap, too.
So whether you grab a gift bag or make gift-wrapping your whole personality, you cannot go wrong with a beautiful book.
(These ones have been lovingly wrapped in @memo.press🎄)
A gift that’ll last forever, but won’t take forever to wrap 💫
Need a last minute present? It’s hard to go wrong with a book that’s been a Sunday Times bestseller, the Waterstones Irish Book of the Year, and a Book of the Year in The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Observer, The New Yorker and more. Long Island by Colm Tóibín is the love story of the century.
(Just try not to be a last minute wrapper, too 😉)
The precision wrapper has a doctorate in gift wrapping. She carefully sets the gift down, measures exactly how much paper she needs, and glides her scissors with a steady hand - not a scrap left over nor a wonky edge in sight.
When your corners are this crisp and your paper this special, there’s no need for bows and ornamentation. But the matching card and gift wrap from @memo.press are the perfect touch.
Why not treat yourself to a book this Christmas? The perfect, uniformly shaped gift for a precision wrapper (whether you intend to wrap it or not) 🎁
Shortlisted for the 2024 @tseliotprize, @Raymond_Antrobus reads from his latest collection Signs, Music; and discusses becoming a parent for the l first time, reclaiming peace, and what being nominated for the prize means to him.
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‘I became fatherless at 26 and a father
at 35 and whenever I look out
the living room window I feel myself
become the child left alone in the house’
Centred around two lyric poems on imminent fatherhood and the birth of a child, Signs, Music is a book about masculinity, fatherhood, and love. The speaker, looking backwards to his late father and forwards to his new son, prepares to become a parent for the first time.
Charting the ways parenthood disrupts the poet’s sense of self, and how the pain of the past triggers fears of ‘fatherly failure’, Signs, Music is a staggeringly profound collection from one of Britain’s most adept poets writing today.
‘I’m inspired by what happens in the process of drawing: the characters that stand out and what stories they have to tell. I’m particularly interested in the texts I get to work with, like this magnificent poem by Carol Ann Duffy, and what happens when my drawings come together with the texts’
Today we’re taking a look at the behind-the-scenes illustration process of Three Wise Men, written by Carol Ann Duff and gorgeously illustrated by @juliaklenovsky
Available from @Waterstones 🎄🎄🎄
We are so thrilled to announce a new novel from the beloved Sunday Times bestselling author Sarah Moss.
A stunning story of coming-of-age and growing old, and how the decisions you make when you’re young, out of love, desire, duty, can irrevocably alter the path of your life.
Proofs are in and we’ll be sharing more soon. Let us know if you’d like a copy!
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It is the 60s and, just out of school, Edith finds herself travelling to rural Italy. She has been sent by her mother with strict instructions: to see her sister, ballet dancer Lydia, through the final weeks of her pregnancy, help at the birth and then make a phone call which will seal this baby’s fate, and his mother’s.
Decades later, happily divorced and newly energized, Edith is living a life of contentment and comfort in Ireland. When her best friend Maebh receives a call from an American man claiming to be her brother, Maebh must decide if she will meet him, and she asks Edith for help.
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Available to pre-order from @Waterstones now.
