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With over 60 million global listeners, don’t miss polymath Blindboy Boatclub in conversation with a special guest.
Join us on the 26th October for a midnight event celebrating the release of the highly anticipated new ACOTAR book from Sarah J. Maas.
Join us at Waterstones Chiswick to celebrate the midnight release of the highly anticipated ACOTAR 6!
Join us on for our exciting midnight launch of the highly anticipated next instalment in the epic A Court of Thorns and Roses series by bestselling author Sarah J.Maas.
Join us as we countdown to the release of the highly anticipated sixth book in the bestselling A Court of Thorns and Roses series: A Court of Splintered Harmony. This midnight launch will be an evening full of sparkly refreshments, costume contests, quizzes and more!
Join us for a special midnight opening to celebrate the release of A Court of Splintered Harmony, the sixth instalment of Sarah J Maas's bestselling ACOTAR . When the clock strikes 12 we will throw open our doors for fans to buy the latest instalment at the earliest possible opportunity. There will be free merchandise for the first 50 customers, including an exclusive wristband and laptop sticker. Bookseller will be on hand to pass out sweets and refreshments as you queue!
Join us for an early opening on the day 'A Court of Thorns and Roses 6' is released into the world. Return to the scintillating world of A Court of Thorns and Roses in the sixth hugely anticipated instalment of Sarah J. Maas's megaselling phenomenon.
Be one of the first people to buy a copy of the much-anticipated new sixth volume of the series
Join fellow fans of Sarah J. Maas at your local Waterstones branch to celebrate the publication of ACOTAR 6.
Join us for an early opening on the day 'A Court of Splintered Harmony' is released into the world. Return to the scintillating world of A Court of Thorns and Roses in the sixth hugely anticipated instalment of Sarah J. Maas's megaselling phenomenon.
Join us in store for the first of two anticipated new releases from Sarah J Maas
The Story Orchestra
This October half-term, tumble into a world of music and magic with the illustrator of the bestselling The Story Orchestra series, Jessica Courtney-Tickle, who joins us for a musical, creative morning celebrating Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
Help your little one find their brave through storytelling, live drawing and lots of giggles, with the extraordinarily talented Cressida Cowell and Neal Layton. Halloween dress-up highly encouraged! Everyone welcome - free, just turn up.
Sir Frances Bacon not only published the first account of cryptography in English but also invented a cipher system of his own that proved to have a remarkable afterlife. In this illustrated lecture, we will look at Bacon’s invention through the eyes of the modern world’s greatest maker and breaker of codes, William F. Friedman—whose long and illustrious (if largely secret) career in military cryptanalysis began and ended with the study of Bacon’s so-called ‘biliteral cipher.' Bill Sherman is Director of the Warburg Institute and Professor of Cultural History in the University of London’s School of Advanced Study. Before moving to the Warburg he served as Director of Research and Collections at the V&A and Director of the Centre for Renaissance & Early Modern Studies at the University of York. He has published widely on Renaissance books, modern art and many things in-between. ATTENDANCE IN PERSON FREE WITH ADVANCE BOOKING
The opening book in Dinniman's addictive Dungeon Crawler Carl series finds the titular coast guard vet and his ex-girlfriend's cat trying to survive an alien invasion and the end of the world in a fantasy-fuelled thrill-ride of a story. We will be meeting at 6pm in Novo Lounge, The Water Gardens. Attendance is free. Please RSVP to harlow@waterstones.com
Why not escape from escapism and join the stimulating discussion on this month's non-fiction read!
Join us on the last Tuesday of every month to chat with our expert bookseller about the best Sci-Fi & Fantasy has to offer.
Following Ruth Ellis’ long-awaited posthumous conditional pardon in July 2026, never has there been a more compelling moment to revisit the woman behind one of Britain’s most enduring legal cases.
Join Amy Abdelnoor and Rebecca Perry to discuss writing their debut novels, in conversation with Maggie Gee.
Join us for a fantastic evening of conversation with Ross Montgomery as he discusses the release of his brand new book, The Shadows of Kensington Gore.
Join us with Róisín Tapponi in conversation with Jennifer Higgie to discuss her debut novel: Scene City - An infectious, irreverent debut novel set amidst the cold glitz of the commercial art world.
Join us for our monthly bookclub! For October we are reading The Wax Child by Olga Ravn.
Come and celebrate the richness, diversity and power of poetry, stories and shared conversation.
Music Against the Night
Yiyun Li’s novel Music Against the Night (4th Estate) takes as its protagonists two musicians – John Field, inventor of the nocturne, and Adelaide Percheron, pianoforte virtuoso – and tells their unlikely, epic, love story, in what Ann Patchett has described as ‘the most perfectly constructed, moving, and beautiful novel I've ever read’. Yiyun Li will be in conversation with Octavia Bright, author of This Ragged Grace (Canongate, 2023).
Q-Club is a fortnightly book club which invites attendees to come together to read, discuss and analyse a sura from Professor M.A.S. Abdel Haleem’s acclaimed and accessible English translation of the Qur’an. Linguistic, thematic, structural and literary devices in the text are explored with a view to deriving practical lessons.
