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Yotam will be cooking live on stage, sharing the inspiration behind his brand-new collection, as he brings recipes to life with colour, aroma, flavour, and joy.
Join The Oasis Podcast & Rock & Roll Book Club for a special live event
It's a classic for a reason! Join us at BookBar Chelsea to chat all things Pride and Prejudice with bestselling author Dolly Alderton, following her adaptation of the Jane Austen classic for Netflix, and a new edition featuring an introduction by Dolly.
Speaker: Mark Solms, psychoanalyst, neuroscientist, and Professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town Mark Solms is a psychoanalyst and neuroscientist. He is Professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, and Director of the Science Department of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He founded the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society in 2000 and he was a Founding Editor of the journal Neuropsychoanalysis. Solms has published more than 400 articles and book chapters, and 9 books. His second book, The Neuropsychology of Dreams (1997), was a landmark contribution to the field. His 2002 book The Brain and the Inner World was a best-seller and has been translated into 13 languages. He is the authorised editor and translator of the Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud and of the forthcoming Complete Neuroscientific Works of Sigmund Freud. His talk will be based on his latest book, The Only Cure: Freud and the Neuroscience of Mental Healing (2026), which aims to rehabilitate the images of psychoanalysis and Freud for a wide audience. Members: Free, Online or Victoria Hall Non-Members: £10, Online or Victoria Hall. To attend in person, please pay on the door Please book, for online link only, by 1pm on the day of the event Please join us for a drink in the Members’ Room after the lecture
Our book club meets once a month for friendly informal chat about books. In December we will be discussing Christmas Holiday, W. Somerset Maugham. Come along and tell us what you think. New members always welcome! Doors at 6.30 Discussion begins at 7.00 Please contact the store if you have any access requirements
This month, our Brontë Book Club discusses Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.
Author Alexandre Samson discusses a stunning collection of never-before published drawings from the legendary designer.
Join us at Waterstones Kensington for our last book club of the year! We'll be discussing Maugham's classic coming of age story, Christmas Holiday.
We are thrilled that Adam Byatt will be joining us on Thursday 10th December from 6.30pm for a book signing only (no interview)
A exclusive Classic Album Sundays conversation and listening event with the legendary-soul-folk singer, now acclaimed by new generations.
The Brontë Play depicts the family life of the famous sisters, with scenes from Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. Beth Shaw and Martin Bould return with another of their popular domestic theatre plays. Come and take a part of Brontë family members and associates, or fictional characters from the novels, as the story of Patrick Brontë and his children unfolds, with elements of drama and tragedy or join us as audience. No need to register – just arrive on the evening!
Join us for an in-conversation with author A.J. West to celebrate the book How Queer Bookshops Changed the World.From Gay’s the Word in London to the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop in New York, West traces the evolution of queer bookshops from under-the-counter operations to the proud institutions they are today. How Queer Bookshops Changed the World documents an important history, while showing how these spaces supported the fight for equality, and offered support throughout the AIDS crisis to Section 28 and beyond.Our Meet the Author series invites you to learn more about Britain’s queer history from those who are writing it. Each event features an in-conversation with the author, followed by a post-event book signing where you can meet them in person.Your ticket also includes admission to Queer Britain Museum – explore our exhibitions before or after the event. EVENT TIMINGS2.30pmEvent Starts2.30-2.35pmShort Introduction2.35-3.15pmIn-Conversation3.15-3.30pmQ&A3.30-4pmBook Signing4pmEvent Ends ACCESSQueer Britain Museum has step-free, wheelchair-accessible entry.An accessible, gender-neutral bathroom is available on site.Event timings will be shared here in advance.This event will not include BSL interpretation or live captioning.The event will be photographed for marketing and archive purposes.
Amidst rising economic inequality, social polarisation and a shift from the real to the digital, why and how do we connect?
Elif Shafak returns to BookBar Chelsea to introduce her stunning new novel, In One Brief Moment All Eternity.
Join us for an afternoon of Christmas shopping! Our booksellers will be on hand to help with fantastic recommendations and there will be gift wrapping services available. We will be toasting to the Christmas spirit with free mince pies, festive drinks, and Christmas crafts for younger shoppers!
Waterstones warmly welcomes you to our Christmas Evenings!
Giles Darkes (Historic Towns Trust) – 'Turning an OS into history: creating historical maps for the Historic Towns Trust' Lectures focussing on the history of maps and mapping worldwide, from earliest times to the twentieth century, with an emphasis on the social and cultural factors of the maps’ context, production, and use. This series is generously supported by the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association’s Educational Trust and the International Map Collectors’ Society.
Queer Britain Museum is the UK's National LGBTQ+ museum, a UK registered charity (no.1180240).We know that many people want a chance to explore culture through Museums and Galleries but struggle to fit it in around their working hours and busy weekends. We're keeping our doors open on the third Thursday every month, so that everyone has the opportunity learn and celebrate LGBTQ+ history.-These evenings are supported by Madame F, so every visitor will enjoy a complimentary glass of wine upon arrival.-Our galleries tell a multitude of stories, through six themes - Resist. ; Club Kids; Queer Creativity; Body and Mind; Live, Laugh, Love; and The World Around Us. The stories told within these themes change regularly.Each of our themes are co-curated with a partner - we are not a museum telling stories about a community, we are a place where the community tells its own story.We also have a series of temporary special exhibitions that change regularly - our programme for 2026 is detailed in the Line-Up section below.-A volunteer-led guided tour of the museum will begin at 7pm, open to anyoneAdmission is by ‘pay what you can’ donation - we suggest £10 or £5 if you're under 30 - we operate without any government funding, and are reliant on the generosity of our visitors, members, patrons and sponsors.Your admission donation will help Reclaim, Preserve and Celebrate LGBTQ+ history and culture.Queer Britain Museum members will always get priority entry; find out more about memberships here. -Pre-booking will guarantee entry to the museum on the day of your choosing, at any time between 6pm and 8pm. Please show your ticket to a member of the team upon arrival. Museum Lates take place on the third Thursday of every month, until 8pm - an average visit is approx. 40 minutes. To visit during regular hours, please book a ticket here
The WiFi Wars team return home to the Ri for their annual Christmas celebration.
Round out the year with a matinee or evening performance of this contemporary take on Michael Faraday's most famous series.
Join us for our Horror Book Club at Waterstones Piccadilly on the first Tuesday of every month. Chat with our booksellers about the best Horror has to offer, both old and new.
What is the most important question you have ever asked? Why?
Join us on the 11th January for a midnight event celebrating the release of the highly anticipated new ACOTAR book 7 from Sarah J. Maas.
Join fellow fans of Sarah J. Maas at your local Waterstones branch to celebrate the publication of ACOTAR 7.
Hear the best new poetry coming out of the UK and Ireland in an event hosted by poet Ian McMillan
Bestselling author, entrepreneur and cultural commentator Scott Galloway joins the 5x15 stage for a timely conversation about masculinity.
Peter Frankopan is the leading historian who transformed how many of us understand the history of the world with his bestselling book The Silk Roads. Frankopan has long argued that our understanding of history is too focussed on Europe which leads us to mistakenly believe we are living through uniquely turbulent times. Yes in 2026 borders are being challenged, alliances are fracturing and new technologies are transforming the way we live. Yet look back across history and many of today’s shocks begin to seem strikingly familiar.
Kristen Lippincott (Director of The Saxl Project) – 'A rediscovered witness: the art of making celestial globes in 15th-century Italy' Lectures focussing on the history of maps and mapping worldwide, from earliest times to the twentieth century, with an emphasis on the social and cultural factors of the maps’ context, production, and use. This series is generously supported by the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association’s Educational Trust and the International Map Collectors’ Society.
Restaurateur, entrepreneur and bestselling author Danny Meyer joins 5x15 at the Emmanuel Centre for a special London evening exploring his new book, What Could Possibly Go Right?
Tim Marshall is one of the world’s most successful authors on foreign affairs. He’s the writer who put the ‘geo’ into geopolitics with his multi-million selling books Prisoners of Geography and The Power of Geography.
Take a fresh look at football with co-hosts Musa Okwonga and Ryan Hunn at a live show of the podcast
Learn the art of poetry from an expert in the field at a three-hour weekend workshop
Enjoy an evening exploring the questions we have all asked about love, dating, and relationships and get the answers that could change everything.
Lucy Foley, Kate Mosse and Natalie Haynes on the evolution of Miss Marple.
Poet and author Joelle Taylor hosts our regular night of London’s most irresistible poetry and music
Writers Mary Beard, Paul Muldoon, Gwendoline Riley and Ben Markovits discuss the state of literature
“The creation of public memory is never accidental, and never permanent.” – Anne Applebaum, author of Autocracy Inc.
Thursday 4 February 6:30-9pm Join us for the launch of Mothering in the Colonies: Intimacy, Race and Psychoanalysis by Diana Caine This book offers an unexpected take on colonial life, reflecting on the intimate yet forbidden relation between settler children and the enslaved or indigenous women who cared for them. The 'black' mother, erased from personal, family and public histories, notwithstanding the importance claimed for early attachment in the West. The unconscious, unspoken traces left with those children in the wake of her care. Its theoretical thread-line is Rita Segato's Black Oedipus, a re-working of the Western Oedipal triad into the relation between two mothers - the 'White' birth mother, transmitter of the law, and the 'black' mother of care, forbidden love object - and the settler infant. A relation that inscribed the settler child into a racialised social order and the installation of the law of the colonialist state. Each chapter is a meditation on a photograph or painting, exploring the complexities of this vital but 'forgotten' intimacy in the settings of colonial South Africa, Mexico, Australia, Brazil and India, each with its own culture, traditions and colonial history. The book makes use throughout of little known contemporary indigenous and First Nations scholarship and writing to reflect on what was lost and ruptured, and on the work of these writers and scholars to recover and sometimes re-create a narrative, a history and a culture.
Val McDermid, Steph McGovern and Ruth Ware with Stuart Maconie.
