Book Blog

The Saffron Tales: An Introduction to Persian Cooking

The Saffron Tales is a love-letter to Iran, its food, and its people. Its author Yasmin Khan has been kind enough to present for Waterstones an evocative overview of these culinary pleasures, introduced here by our non-fiction buyer Bea Carvalho.

Dominic Lieven wins this year’s Pushkin House Russian Book Prize

We are delighted to confirm that Dominic Lieven’s Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia is the winner of this year’s Pushkin House Russian Book Prize.

This year’s Wellcome Prize goes to Suzanne O’Sullivan’s It’s All In Your Head

Described as a study of the area where medicine 'necessarily remains an art as well as a science', O’Sullivan’s debut, It's All in Your Head, wins this year's Wellcome Prize.

Q & A: Laura Bates

Girl Up is a survival guide, written largely for girls and younger women, that takes a frank look at modern life and what feminism means today. Here its author Laura Bates talks social media, great feminist reading and whether Chris Pratt has the right idea about inequality. Introduced by the Manager of our Newcastle Emerson branch, Caroline Dominey.

Return To The Wizarding World

J.K. Rowling's screen-writing debut, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay, will be published the day after the film's release and is available to pre-order now.