WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 🎉 Escape to 1920s Provence for a summer of passion, possession, and art 🎨 🌾

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! 🎉 & Gift of the Year is Tim Siadatan's PADELLA! 🎁 Find them here: https://t.co/v73x9CHwZS

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We are so incredibly thrilled and proud to share that THE ARTIST by Lucy Steeds has been chosen as the @Waterstones Book of the Year 2025 🎉🎨   Massive congratulations to Lucy on such a wonderful achievement, and thank you to everyone who has supported this beautiful debut 💚

This incredible book accompanies the landmark cinematic experience at the world-famous @NHM_London produced by Open Planet and presented by David Attenborough 💚

Have you ever wondered…  🍃 What is our place in all of this? 🍃 What is our purpose? OUR STORY is an awe-inspiring celebration of the natural world and a journey through the extraordinary story of our own species by Colin Butfield & @jonniehughes 🔗 https://t.co/pqCo1DnvqZ

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For years, athletic directors and sports executives have made costly mistakes too often when leading a head coaching search. I recently finished reading Credible – The Power of Expert Leaders by Amanda Goodall. Reading this book should be a requirement for all ADs and sports

The winner of the 2025 #CundillHistoryPrize is... Lyndal Roper for ‘Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War, published by @johnmurrays and @BasicBooks. A “sensational” account of the sixteenth-century uprising that shook Europe to its core. https://t.co/YnbqCaFv9x

We're absolutely thrilled to announce our incredible 2025 #BookoftheYear shortlist! 🥳 From deranged donuts and pickled bats to slow-burn romances and journeys to the underworld, discover the nominees here: https://t.co/v73x9CI4Pq

We’re over the moon and incredibly proud to have not one but TWO books on the @Waterstones Book of the Year shortlist 💫 The Artist by Lucy Steeds 🎨 https://t.co/4PuI2n2us5 OCEAN by David Attenborough and Colin Butfield 🌊 https://t.co/ybSCMZSVAt

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We are delighted to announce the 2025 #CundillHistoryPrize finalists! ✨ 📚 ‘The First and Last King of Haiti’ by Marlene L. Daut (@AAKnopf) 📚 ‘Summer of Fire and Blood’ by Lyndal Roper (@johnmurrays / @BasicBooks) 📚 ‘The Age of Choice’ by Sophia Rosenfeld (@PrincetonUPress)

📚 | 2025 LONGLIST "Christopher once again delivers a book with unparalleled access and unearths new gems about a sporting superstar." — Reading Panel. With access and behind-the-scenes insight, @christophclarey creates the first biography of Rafael Nadal, which covers his

OUT NOW 🎉 Don't miss Young Once, the hilarious and heart-warming memoir of actor and comedian @NigelPlaner1 Order your copy here: https://t.co/fqWjyn9Hp7

✨👠 Strange Girls 👠✨ 'Touching, infuriating and painfully true.' Julia Armfield ✨ Two estranged friends are forced to reunite one feverish weekend and reckon with the choices that tore them apart. Wish on NetGalley now: https://t.co/cFeMPcxNpT #JMPFictionZine26

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Clara and Christine is Andrew Cunning's challenge to Flaubert's advice to 'never meet your heroes'... Go to Page 26 in the zine to read more: https://t.co/2gV8MpLWq6

What happens when your literary idol becomes your greatest teacher?📚 Andrew Cunning introduces Clara and Christina, a moving novel about obsession, authorship, and the blurred lines between truth and fiction. #JMPFictionZine26

Caroline knows she must leave her past behind and invent a new story...✨ Request A Great Act of Love on NetGalley now: https://t.co/A1sPhkeadw

One woman’s quest to reclaim her family and herself takes her from Paris to Edinburgh, London, New York and to Tasmania 🌍 A Great Act of Love is an epic story of hope and self-invention ✨ #JMPFictionZine26

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What happens when a man disappears inside a black bag? Part campus novel, part investigation into masculinity and part off-kilter love story, Black Bag is a firework of a novel Flick to page 12 in the zine to read more: https://t.co/VgaD1xrfba #JMPFictionZine26

We're kicking off the final day of our Zine week with @LukeKennard's Black Bag ⚫ This is a wildly original and blazingly funny novel blending dark humour, love and masculinity, featuring a protagonist who wears a black leather bag... #JMPFictionZine26

'All my fears have vanished, and I realise now that my dreams were not nightmares but a sign of what was to come, how this will end. An inevitability' 🕯️ Wish for Night Babies on NetGalley: https://t.co/1eChNNNLI7 #JMPFictionZine26