Some brilliant advice from Catherine Fisher at our school event last week celebrating the launch of Candlemam as a Firefly Welsh Children's Classic:
'When you finish writing for the day, leave a sentence unfinished. That away, the next day you can launch straight back into it.'
What's everyone reading this weekend?
HAPPY WORLD BOOK DAY!
Celebrate with a visit to a bookshop, and with Double Plus Stamps until midnight on Sunday!
Not a Plus member? Sign up here for free: waterstones.com/plus
*EVENT*
Jane Fraser in conversation with Alan Bilton - Wednesday 18.3 from 6pm
Jane will be in conversation with Alan about her latest novel, Weights and Measures.
FREE entry!
www.waterstones.com/events/weigh...
Happy St David's Day!
We're also celebrating our new Welsh Book of the Month - Emma Kavanagh's brilliant, speculative eco-thriller, Every Time we Burn.
"Clever, gripping, utterly surprising" - Tammy Cohen
#StDavidsDay #DyddGΕ΅ylDewi #WBOTM
What everyone reading this weekend?
Doors open in 25 minutes.
Beyond them, more books than you could carry, though we'd like to see you try. After the necessary health and safety checks and risk assessments. Actually let's not bother.
Whilst waiting for Hooked, the next from Butter author Asako Yuzuki, here are a few suggestions to keep you going...
Everyone, this is Lexie.
Lexie, this is everyone.
Find someone who looks at you like Lexie looks at mobile phone cameras.
Her proudest achievement is that she's a Very Good Dog.
#DogsInBookshops
Doors open in 1.1 hours.
Beyond them, more books than you could possibly imagine.
Unless, that is, you are capable of conceptualising the idea of a building with lots of books on shelves and tables, in which case you can disregard our initial statement.
Does opened an hour ago.
Everyone, this is Ruby.
Ruby, this is everyone.
Ruby loves you.
Her proudest achievement is that she's a Very Good Dog.
#DogsInBookshops
Was it any good?
What's everyone reading this weekend?
Doors open in an hour.
Beyond them, more books than you could possibly imagine.
Unless, that is, you can imagine a lot of books, in which case you can disregard our initial statement.
Thank you so much to Stephanie Burgis, who popped in this week to sign her book!
Wooing the Witch Queen is our Welsh Book of the Month for February; the opening instalment in a delightful cosy romantasy trilogy, whichΒ finds a feared sorceress falling for a dark wizard
The front window of Waterstones Swansea has a display up for Wooing the Witch Queen, as Welsh Book of the Month, with a gorgeous mini bonsai tree and several stems of fake cherry blossoms lying around it.
Inside the shop is a front table with two tall stacks of copies of Wooing the Witch Queen beside a tall stack of copies of Enchanting the Fae Queen.
Street art of a Green Barred Colonel Curlew (as identified by the artist) marching along proudly with a background of green flies.
Steph sits underneath street art of a woman in traditional nineteenth-century Welsh garb.
Yesterday was day 2 of my mini-signing tour for Wooing the Witch Queen, traveling around different wonderful Welsh Waterstones while WtWQ is Welsh Book of the Month! So prepare for happy photos. :)
I started out at @swanseastones.bsky.social , a bookstore (and city!) I've loved for a long time:
Everyone, this is Dolly.
Dolly, this is everyone.
Dolly is 70% nose and 30% cloud.
Her proudest achievement is that she's a Very Good Dog.
#DogsInBookshops
Our first event of the year is in just ten days!
Ted Shirley, author of Afghanistan Sniper, will be in conversation with Cullen Mais.
Wednesday 28th January from 6pm - follow the link below to book your ticket.
www.waterstones.com/events/meet-...
Join us for our first event of 2026!
Meet Ted Shirley, author of Afghanistan Sniper, who will be in conversation with Cullen Mais.
Wednesday 28th January from 6pm - follow the link below to book your ticket.
www.waterstones.com/events/meet-...
Everyone, this is Neo.
Neo, this is everyone.
Neo prefers to be known as The One, and claims to be able to stop time. He also couldn't work out where the camera was so maybe take that with a pinch of salt.
His proudest achievement is that he's a Very Good Dog.
#DogsInBookshops
Thank you so much to Anthony Shapland, Jack Strange, Anna Fiteni and everyone who came along to our Christmas shopping evening!l this week!
We are also celebrating our 30th year as a bookshop. That's a lot of years, and a lot of books. We lost count in 2001.
We are celebrating our 30th year as a Waterstones bookshop!
Join us this Thursday, 4.12, from 5.30 to 7.30pm for our legendary Christmas shopping evening.
- guest authors
- mince pies & mulled wine
- prizes
- crafts
AND - DOUBLE PLUS CARD STAMPS!
www.waterstones.com/events/30th-...
Loved by booksellers and readers from day one, THE ARTIST by Lucy Steeds is our #BookOfTheYear 2025 & THE CAFE AT THE EDGE OF THE WOODS by Mikey Please is our Children's #BookOfTheYear! π
& Gift of the Year is Tim Siadatan's PADELLA! π
Find them here: www.waterstones.com/category/cul...
We are hiring!
If you'd like to join our barista team in the cafe this Christmas, pop in for a friendly chat.
Thank you!
We are celebrating our 30th year as a Waterstones bookshop!
Join us on December 4th from 5.30 to 7.30pm for our legendary Christmas shopping evening.
- guest authors
- mince pies & mulled wine
- prizes
- crafts
AND - DOUBLE PLUS CARD STAMPS!
www.waterstones.com/events/30th-...
π
We are very excited to announce the Waterstones Welsh Book of the Year 2025!
A Room Above a Shop, Anthony Shapland's poetic debut, is an astonishing novel; a deeply moving story of two men's secret relationship in 1980s Wales.
It's a truly beautiful book.
#WBOTY #WBOTY2025
There are just TWO DAYS to go until we reveal the Waterstones Welsh Book of the Year 2025!
Join us this Thursday, 13.11, to find out what it is.
We'd love to tell you what it is now, but nothing will loosen our tongues. No, not even you, Treacle.
That ship has flown.
