Waterstones Inverness

A pile of paperback books sit against a blurred bookshop background. There are three books stacked, with two more standing upright atop the pile. The books are all the same - The Midnight King by Tariq Ashkenazi. The colour palette is predominantly deep blue with white and yellow colours for the text. The text is large and there is a central image of a small cottage with a single, lit window and the silhouette of three fir trees. The overall impression is dark and slightly foreboding.

Popular in store this month - with booksellers and customers alike - is Waterstones Scottish Book of the Month, The Midnight King by @tariqashkanani.bsky.social
If you like dark, daring and gripping thrillers then this will hit the spot!

#booksky #thriller #crime #scottish #new

A stack of paperback books against a blurred bookshop background. The books include various genres as they represent the selection of Waterstones Books of the Month for January.

Happy New Year Bluesky!
We have a terrific selection for January’s Books of the Month, perfect reading for a cosy evening - so why not learn something new 💡 get lost in a fantasy 🏰 thrilled by a mystery 🔪 or be moved by a great novel 📚

#booksky #new #crime #fantasy #history #selfhelp #newyearreset

A small table, in front of a blurred bookshop background. On the table are the three piles of books on the subject of Scottish climbing and Munros. The covers show mountains and a climber in orange trousers against a white, snowy mountain.

If you prefer winter adventuring to mince pies and Christmas reruns then we’ve got you covered with a great selection of books for planning that next expedition, whether local or further afield 🏔️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
#mountains #munros #scotland #adventure #climbing #hiking #walking #travel #booksky

A hand at the bottom of the photo holds three Christmas cards in front of a blurred card display. The three cards have Christmas images and text in Scottish Gaelic, Scots and English. The illustrations are of a puffin in a Santa hat; grey, snow-capped mountains; and a tartan background with a floral design.

It’s that time again! Last 2nd Class UK postage date for cards is the 17th December & much earlier for international post so it’s time to dust off the address book and get to sending! ✉️ 🎄
#christmas #cards #post #scotland #gaelic #scots

A pumpkin glowing, surrounded by shadows and some barely visible books. The pumpkin is carved with the face of Edgar Allen Poe and the name E.A. Poe. A black raven cutout sits atop it.

Happy Halloween! 🎃 or Latha Oidhche Shamhna sona dhuibh!
In the spirit of the season why not show us your pumpkins (or neeps if you don’t value your fingertips!)?
We’re sure they have great Poe-tential (sorry! 🤦‍♀️)
#halloween #pumpkin #decoration #edgarallenpoe #horror #booksky #scotland #gàidhlig

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Books in front of a blurred bookshop background. Two books stand atop a pile of others, all hardback copies of Philip Pullman’s The Book of Dust:The Rose Field. There are two versions. On the right is the exclusive hardback with foil details to the cover. The illustration shows a dusty desert with two camel riders in silhouette. The book on the left is a hardback slipcase version, cellophane wrapped, with a predominantly solid orange cover with a white eagle in the centre.

It’s here! The greatly anticipated third volume of Philip Pullman’s The Book of Dust: The Rose Field. We have a stunning, exclusive slipcase edition and a hardback edition with exclusive foiled details. What are you waiting for?!
#booksky #pullman #bookofdust #trilogy #fantasy #northernlights

Two hardback books standing atop a pile - all the same title. The book is Hawthorn: A Scottish Ghost Story by Elaine Thomson. The cover is in shade of deep blue, with branches in the foreground and a spectral figure in the centre distance. In the far distance are misty hills. The text is in white and there is a quote from author Michelle Paver which reads ‘I was so impressed by Hawthorn’.

We’re at the beginning of spooky season 👻 so here’s a recommendation for an outstanding & creepily gothic ghost story set in Scotland. Beloved by our booksellers, Hawthorn by Elaine Thomson is the perfect read for the season 🎃 📖

#hawthorn #bluesky #halloween #gothic #supernatural #ghost #scotland

A pile of Richard Osman’s new hardback book ‘The Impossible Fortune’. The edge has a sprayed designed of foxes. The edges of the books are pumpkin orange and the text is in black and red.

What could be better than picking up a copy of the newest instalment of the Thursday Murder Club, ‘The Impossible Fortune’ by @richardosman1.bsky.social ?
Getting the Waterstones edition with exclusive endpapers, foxy sprayed edge and bonus scene!
#booksky #crime #fiction #thriller #gift

An advert for drop in board game events at Waterstones, Inverness. The game is Hero Slam, by Jamie Smart, the creator of the popular Bunny vs Monkey Series. The info is Saturday 11th October at 11am and 2pm. The left hand side of the picture shows the front of the game box with the title and animated characters of animals and mythical creatures. A few of the playing cards are also visible showing characters and the rainbow star on the back of the cards. The game is centred on saving an enchanted forest so the primary colour of the box and advert is green.

Are you excited for the upcoming release of Jamie Smart’s new Bunny vs Monkey: Intergalactic Monkey Business!?
We are too 😁 so join us on Sat 11th Oct at 11am & 2pm where you can get your hands on a copy and also play Jamie Smart’s awesome Hero Slam game 🌳 ⚔️🔥💪
#booksky #inverness #scotland #game

A glow in the dark haunted house scene. A house stands between two bare trees. The boarded up windows have a skeleton, witches and a cat behind them and a grim reaper stands at the door. In front of the fence a line a truck or treaters stand in costumes. There’s ghosts, a spider, witches and a mummy. The background is black and the whole picture glows green.

As the nights draw in a puzzle is a great way spend an evening. We highly recommend this 500pc Glow in the Dark Haunted House puzzle by Michael Storrings. Here’s a pic of one completed by one of our booksellers. It’s spookily fun! 🎃 👻
#halloween #glowinthedark #puzzle #jigsaw #gift #booksky

A background of woodland with a glimpse of a waterfall in the lower right corner. In the foreground is an arrangement of circular playing cards. They’re laid out in a circular fan of nine cards with a tenth in the centre and, on the left hand side is the tin that usually holds them. The game is The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings Dobble and the the cards show a variety of characters and items from the books such as Legolas, Gimli, and the Palantir. The centre card is different, with a blue background and a single large ‘The One Ring’ pictured. The tin is designed to look like the door to a Hobbit house, so is green and brown with a golden doorknob.

Troll! Goblin! Warg!
No, we’re not insulting anyone, we’re just playing the new Hobbit/LOTR themed Dobble card game.
Full of characters and items from the books, it combines the usual Dobble fun with the opportunity to yell ‘Nazgül’!
#hobbit #lordoftherings #lotr #dobble #game #booksky #gift

A blurred bookshop background. In the foreground is a pile of green hardback books with one standing face out atop the pile. Gold text reads ‘Impossible Creatures - The Poisoned King’ by author Katherine Rundell. There is a strange creature at the top of the cover which appears to be part lion, part bird, part buffalo.

Katherine Rundell’s much awaited sequel to the phenomenally successful Impossible Creatures is here!
Christopher returns to the magical world of the Archipelago where adventure and, of course, fantastical creatures await!

#booksky #impossiblecreatures #adventure #newrelease #kids #books #adventure

Sgoinneil! Tha mi duilich for the very late reply! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 😊

A blurred bookshop background. In the foreground sits a small pile of hardback books with another of the same title standing atop it. The book is Reframing Blackness by Alayo Akinkugbe. The cover is black with white and gold lettering and an image of Lawdy Mama(1969) by Barkley L.Hendricks. The artwork shows a Black woman wearing a black and red striped dress staring directly at the viewer, holding her right elbow with her left hand. She is framed by a golden arched background made from gold leaf and the sitter’s afro has a halo-like quality that mirrors the arched framing.

‘Since the inception of mainstream art history Blackness has been distinctly ignored’.
Art historian Alayo Akinkugbe addresses this in her debut, exploring the presentation of Black figures in Western art, museums & in feminist art.
#booksky #art #history #reframing #blackness #education #hardback

Nessie Hunters! 👀 If you’re looking for a reliable sighting then Waterstones Inverness can help 😁
Check out our awesome new bookshelves and seating!

#nessie #lochness #monster #cryptid #niseag #scotland #loch #booksky #woodwork #kids #books #inverness

In front of a blurred bookshop background sits a small pile of yellow paperback books. Stop the pile, one stands facing us - the title is How to Train Your Dragon School:Doom of the Darkwing by Cressida Cowell. The cover shows a small brown dragon being ridden, while the face of a huge blue dragon dominates the foreground. Next to the book sits a small yellow dragon plushie.

What has wings, sharp teeth and is irresistible to children?
Yep, it’s dragons 🐉 and we’re super-excited to stock the new @cressidacowell.bsky.social How to Train Your Dragon School book- first in a new series for developing readers. Limited signed copies available 🤩
#dragons #hiccup #kids #booksky

Queer bookseller recs! 🏳️‍🌈 These are just a small selection of LGBTQ+ fiction that our booksellers love from a range of different genres, from classics, fantasy, Scottish fiction, manga and new releases! ✨

Four books and a small pocket map sit on a brown wooden counter with a blurred bookshop background. The subject of the books and maps is the NC500 (The North Coast 500 roadtrip), and the covers show mountains, beaches and a highland cow.

The North Coast 500 is Scotland’s ultimate road-trip with unforgettable scenery, white sandy beaches and many hidden gems. Make sure you don’t miss anything with one of our maps and guides 🏔️ 🏖️

#scotland #travel #roadtrip #nc500 #guide #map #adventure #tourism #booksky

A pile of hardback YA titles sits on a black wooden tabletop with in front of a blurred bookshop background.

Did you guess any? Congrats if you did, that was hard!

A black wooden tabletop with a blurred bookshop background. On the table are a pile of hardback books with the page edges facing us so we can’t see the titles. All the edges are sprayed in various colours and text including one that says LOVE IS POWER and one that is in rainbow shades.

We love a sprayed edge here at Waterstones Inverness 📚 😍
These are a few from our current hardback YA section.
Can you guess any of the titles? (Answers below 😁)

#booksky #YA #teen #hardback #sprayed #special #edition #scotland

Six books stacked vertically next to each other like on a bookshelf. From left to right these are: The Artist by Lucy Steeds, Confessions by Catherine Airey, When the Cranes Fly South by Lisa Ridzen, Saraswati by Gurnaik Johal, Ordinary Saints by Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin and Sunstruck by William Rayfet Hunter.

Introducing our phenomenal shortlist for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2025! These globetrotting books take us from NYC and London to the depths of the Provencal countryside and rural Ireland, via a Swedish cabin and a holy Indian river. #Waterstones #WDFP #WaterstonesDebutFictionPrize

Ah, that’s a Gouda one! 😁

A black wooden tables sits in front of a blurred bookshop background. On the table are four Jellycat soft toys, one is a peach and the other three are cheeses- Brie, Camembert and Mozzarella. All have eyes, happy smiles and limbs. The Mozzarella is wearing a slice of tomato on its head like a beret.

Can you Brie-lieve how adorable these new Jellycats are? They’re so cute we Camembert it 😍
Sorry to be cheesy 🧀 but we think they’re just peachy 🍑 😜
(Pretend you haven’t noticed that we can’t think up a mozzarella pun 😂)
#jellycat #plushies #cheese #peach #bookshop #booksky #scotland #pun #dadjoke

Aw, thank you 💜 😁

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A black table with two stacks of paperback books, all on topics of Scottish History such as the Jacobites, The Highland Clans and the Battle of Culloden.

Scotland has an ancient and turbulent history, with evidence of human occupation dating back to the Palaeolithic era. If you’d like to know more then come check out our extensive Scottish History section 📚 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
#scottish #history #booksky #culloden #highlands #islands #jacobites #clearances #picts

In front of a blurred bookshelf background, two copies of the Exploding Kittens board game are displayed, with a sign advertising a drop-in demo session of the game at 2pm on Saturday 5th July. The boxes are orangey-red with white text and an illustration of a grey cat with flames in its eyes. The poster shows the board game pieces laid out next to the 3D board.

Do you love kittens? 🐱 Board games? 🎲 Explosions? 💥
How about all 3?
If so, then come to our free drop-in session to try out the new Exploding Kittens Board Game!
Saturday 5th July at 2pm in store 🔥

#explodingkittens #boardgame #event #free #game #inverness #booksky #scotland

A grid of four Pride themed pictures. Top left - a copy of hardback children’s book A Year of Pride and Joy. The cover is yellow with illustrations of famous LGBTQIA+ people. Top right - A pair of white socks with rainbow text (Book Nerd) on the ankles and a rainbow heart on the soles. Bottom left - a cream tote bag with black straps and rainbow text reading ‘Book Nerd’ Bottom right - A blurred bookshop background with a black table on which sit a collection of books from the Waterstones LGBTQIA+ section.

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈😊
Highland Pride is tomorrow (7th June) with the parade starting from Falcon Square at 1pm - full details are at highlandpride.org
Pop in and say hi if you’re passing by 😁 🙌

#pride #pride2025 #highlandpride #scotland #parade #inverness #booksky

Six books on a brown wooden table with a blurred bookshop background. All the books are focused on learning Scottish Gaelic, including dictionaries and books to teach your cat or dog a few key phrases.

Ceud mìle fàilte! A bheil Gàidhlig agaibh?/A hundred thousand welcomes! Do you have Gaelic? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Or would you like to?
We have plenty of resources to help you get started, or learn a few phrases alongside your pet 🐈 🐕😁

#gàidhlig #scottish #gaelic #language #learning #scotland #booksky #pet #dog #cat