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We are incredibly pleased to announce a new book from Mary Beard, publishing in April 2026. #TalkingClassics: The Shock of the Old is a bold and incisive account of why the classics matter.

What’s exciting about a piece of bread 4,000 years old? Or some pots of paint abandoned in the eruption at Pompeii? Why should we be bothered with the distant past anyway? What’s the point?

The life, art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome have something to offer everyone. They are not the property of wealthy white men only. They make us wonder how to make sense of people who lived long ago (from angry landlords to giggling senators) – and to think harder about our own world, to look at it differently.

In Talking Classics, Mary Beard points to the surprising connections between antiquity and the present. From revolutionaries to dictators, Bob Dylan to Beyoncé, she joins forces with the varied modern characters who have been transfixed by the ancient world. It’s not compulsory, she argues, to be excited by antiquity, but it’s a shame not to be.

After half a century teaching and studying classics, she fills the book with lively stories, curious facts and some good gossip. Talking Classics explains why the deep past does really affect us all.

Pre-order your signed Waterstones edition via the link in our bio.

#MaryBeard #TalkingClassics #Classics #Waterstones #AncientHistory

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We are incredibly pleased to announce a new book from Mary Beard, publishing in April 2026. #TalkingClassics: The Shock of the Old is a bold and incisive account of why the classics matter.

What’s exciting about a piece of bread 4,000 years old? Or some pots of paint abandoned in the eruption at Pompeii? Why should we be bothered with the distant past anyway? What’s the point?

The life, art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome have something to offer everyone. They are not the property of wealthy white men only. They make us wonder how to make sense of people who lived long ago (from angry landlords to giggling senators) – and to think harder about our own world, to look at it differently.

In Talking Classics, Mary Beard points to the surprising connections between antiquity and the present. From revolutionaries to dictators, Bob Dylan to Beyoncé, she joins forces with the varied modern characters who have been transfixed by the ancient world. It’s not compulsory, she argues, to be excited by antiquity, but it’s a shame not to be.

After half a century teaching and studying classics, she fills the book with lively stories, curious facts and some good gossip. Talking Classics explains why the deep past does really affect us all.

Pre-order your signed Waterstones edition via the link in our bio.

#MaryBeard #TalkingClassics #Classics #Waterstones #AncientHistory

Take your pitch-side seats to the world’s greatest football tournament ⚽️🏆

Today we publish #WorldCupFever by bestselling author Simon Kuper. Simon Kuper is one of very few people to have attended every World Cup since 1990. In World Cup Fever he looks back at each tournament he’s experienced - from half-empty stands at Italia 90 to the French triumph as hosts in 1998, South Africa’s national dream in 2010 and the troubling legacy of 2022 – to reveal a captivating portrait of sport in a globalised world.

World Cup Fever is the story of how the tournament touches and sometimes even changes our lives, by one of the best writers on the beautiful game.

#WorldCup #Football #SimonKuper #FootballBook #Bookstagram

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Take your pitch-side seats to the world’s greatest football tournament ⚽️🏆

Today we publish #WorldCupFever by bestselling author Simon Kuper. Simon Kuper is one of very few people to have attended every World Cup since 1990. In World Cup Fever he looks back at each tournament he’s experienced - from half-empty stands at Italia 90 to the French triumph as hosts in 1998, South Africa’s national dream in 2010 and the troubling legacy of 2022 – to reveal a captivating portrait of sport in a globalised world.

World Cup Fever is the story of how the tournament touches and sometimes even changes our lives, by one of the best writers on the beautiful game.

#WorldCup #Football #SimonKuper #FootballBook #Bookstagram

Exciting news to kick off October: #ChurchGoing by Andrew Ziminski is Blackwells’ Non-Fiction Book of the Month! Join stonemason Andrew Ziminski on a charming tour around Britain’s best medieval churches, exploring their features and furnishings, from angel roofs to flying buttresses.

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‘Joyous and illuminating’ – Sir Tony Robinson

‘A beautiful book’ – Rory Stewart

‘Utterly fascinating’ – Alice Loxton

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#ChurchGoing by Andrew Ziminski publishes in paperback tomorrow. Who’s coming on a church crawl with us?

#ChurchGoing #BritishChurches #Churches #AndrewZiminski #Bookstagram #BooksOfIG #Architecture #ChurchCrawling

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Exciting news to kick off October: #ChurchGoing by Andrew Ziminski is Blackwells’ Non-Fiction Book of the Month! Join stonemason Andrew Ziminski on a charming tour around Britain’s best medieval churches, exploring their features and furnishings, from angel roofs to flying buttresses.

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‘Joyous and illuminating’ – Sir Tony Robinson

‘A beautiful book’ – Rory Stewart

‘Utterly fascinating’ – Alice Loxton

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#ChurchGoing by Andrew Ziminski publishes in paperback tomorrow. Who’s coming on a church crawl with us?

#ChurchGoing #BritishChurches #Churches #AndrewZiminski #Bookstagram #BooksOfIG #Architecture #ChurchCrawling

Bon appétit! Ned Palmer’s brie-lliant guide to the cheeses of France publishes this week in paperback 🧀

In #ACheesemongerTourDeFrance, Ned Palmer wends his way around the country’s regions, meeting the remarkable cheesemongers who carry the torch for France’s oldest and most treasured traditions. Every French cheese carries an essence of the place where it’s made – its history, identity and landscape. Sometimes that’s a physical thing, as the hard texture of Comté echoes its mountainous home in the Jura. Other times it’s about power and politics – Brie swelling to royal dimensions due to its proximity to the French court, or Camembert gaining national status after being supplied in patriotic boxes to First World War soldiers.

Witty, fascinating and endlessly moreish, A Cheesemonger’s Tour de France is the perfect guide to a French cheeseboard – and a terrific insight into la Belle République 🇫🇷

Out this Thursday in paperback!

#Bookstagram #BooksOfIG #ACheesemongersTour #Cheese #FrenchCheese #Fromage

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Bon appétit! Ned Palmer’s brie-lliant guide to the cheeses of France publishes this week in paperback 🧀

In #ACheesemongerTourDeFrance, Ned Palmer wends his way around the country’s regions, meeting the remarkable cheesemongers who carry the torch for France’s oldest and most treasured traditions. Every French cheese carries an essence of the place where it’s made – its history, identity and landscape. Sometimes that’s a physical thing, as the hard texture of Comté echoes its mountainous home in the Jura. Other times it’s about power and politics – Brie swelling to royal dimensions due to its proximity to the French court, or Camembert gaining national status after being supplied in patriotic boxes to First World War soldiers.

Witty, fascinating and endlessly moreish, A Cheesemonger’s Tour de France is the perfect guide to a French cheeseboard – and a terrific insight into la Belle République 🇫🇷

Out this Thursday in paperback!

#Bookstagram #BooksOfIG #ACheesemongersTour #Cheese #FrenchCheese #Fromage

We are pleased to announce that Eleanor Barraclough’s eye-opening and engaging history of the Viking age #EmbersOfTheHands has been shortlisted for the #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025, recognising the best history non-fiction titles from the past year.

The Prize judges said, ‘Beautifully and dynamically written, this book fuses history and archaeology to offer intimate and compelling insights into the everyday lives and beliefs of ordinary people in the Viking period.’

Congratulations to the brilliant Eleanor and the five other shortlisted authors. We’re counting down the days until the winner announcement on 2nd December…!

#WolfsonHistoryPrize #History #HistoryBook #Vikings #VikingHistory #EmbersOfTheHands #Bookstagram

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We are pleased to announce that Eleanor Barraclough’s eye-opening and engaging history of the Viking age #EmbersOfTheHands has been shortlisted for the #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025, recognising the best history non-fiction titles from the past year.

The Prize judges said, ‘Beautifully and dynamically written, this book fuses history and archaeology to offer intimate and compelling insights into the everyday lives and beliefs of ordinary people in the Viking period.’

Congratulations to the brilliant Eleanor and the five other shortlisted authors. We’re counting down the days until the winner announcement on 2nd December…!

#WolfsonHistoryPrize #History #HistoryBook #Vikings #VikingHistory #EmbersOfTheHands #Bookstagram

Bustling with rich detail, historical vignettes and surprising wares, this is the story of Britain’s best-loved but ever-changing public spaces.

What makes a high street? It’s certainly not just about the shopping; these thoroughfares are often the beating heart of our towns and cities and, by extension, of the people who use them. As spaces where local life and culture unfolds, our high streets can be playgrounds of personal indulgence and community spirit, or sites of contentious debate and politicking.

Historian Annie Gray takes us down the street and through the ages, from medieval marketplaces to the purpose-built concrete precincts of the twentieth century. Peeping through the windows of tailors, tearooms and grocers, we explore everything from the toyshops of yesteryear - where curiosities were sold for adults, not children - to the birth of brands we shop at today.

The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker by Annie Gray is out today in now!

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Bustling with rich detail, historical vignettes and surprising wares, this is the story of Britain’s best-loved but ever-changing public spaces.

What makes a high street? It’s certainly not just about the shopping; these thoroughfares are often the beating heart of our towns and cities and, by extension, of the people who use them. As spaces where local life and culture unfolds, our high streets can be playgrounds of personal indulgence and community spirit, or sites of contentious debate and politicking.

Historian Annie Gray takes us down the street and through the ages, from medieval marketplaces to the purpose-built concrete precincts of the twentieth century. Peeping through the windows of tailors, tearooms and grocers, we explore everything from the toyshops of yesteryear - where curiosities were sold for adults, not children - to the birth of brands we shop at today.

The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker by Annie Gray is out today in now!

How to Build a Haunted House: The History of a Cultural Obsession by Caitlin Blackwell Baines 👻

As we approach spooky season, we have a very exciting book to scratch that ghostly itch. Comment down below for an early copy for review 👇

Crumbling turrets, crenelated walls, creaking floorboards. We all know a haunted house when we see - or feel - one. That creeping sense of wrongness. An icy shiver stealing down the spine. But why do certain structures set this super-sensory alarm bell jangling, while others leave us unmoved? Can a house be purpose-built to be haunted? And does a building need a bloody legacy to set the skin tingling?

Tiptoe through the haunted gallery at Hampton Court Palace, encounter the spectral residents of Chillingham Castle and lose yourself in the labyrinthine layout of Winchester Mystery House as Caitlin Blackwell Baines unravels the psyche, the history and the folkloric fabrication that make a haunted house take on a life of its own.

Enter if you dare... 🏚️

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How to Build a Haunted House: The History of a Cultural Obsession by Caitlin Blackwell Baines 👻

As we approach spooky season, we have a very exciting book to scratch that ghostly itch. Comment down below for an early copy for review 👇

Crumbling turrets, crenelated walls, creaking floorboards. We all know a haunted house when we see - or feel - one. That creeping sense of wrongness. An icy shiver stealing down the spine. But why do certain structures set this super-sensory alarm bell jangling, while others leave us unmoved? Can a house be purpose-built to be haunted? And does a building need a bloody legacy to set the skin tingling?

Tiptoe through the haunted gallery at Hampton Court Palace, encounter the spectral residents of Chillingham Castle and lose yourself in the labyrinthine layout of Winchester Mystery House as Caitlin Blackwell Baines unravels the psyche, the history and the folkloric fabrication that make a haunted house take on a life of its own.

Enter if you dare... 🏚️

We’re delighted that #ImpossibleCity by Simon Kuper has been chosen as one of Waterstones’ Paperbacks of the Year! This is the perfect present for any Francophile in your life 🇫🇷📖

Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as a human being and as a journalist. He has grown middle-aged there, eaten the croissants, taken his children to countless football matches on freezing Saturday mornings in the city’s notorious banlieues, and in 2015 lived through two terrorist attacks on his family’s neighbourhood. Over two decades of becoming something of a cantankerous Parisian himself, Kuper has watched the city change. This is a captivating memoir of today’s Paris without the clichés.

Get your copy via Waterstones now!

#ImpossibleCity #Paris #Paperback #Bookstagram #Waterstones

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We’re delighted that #ImpossibleCity by Simon Kuper has been chosen as one of Waterstones’ Paperbacks of the Year! This is the perfect present for any Francophile in your life 🇫🇷📖

Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as a human being and as a journalist. He has grown middle-aged there, eaten the croissants, taken his children to countless football matches on freezing Saturday mornings in the city’s notorious banlieues, and in 2015 lived through two terrorist attacks on his family’s neighbourhood. Over two decades of becoming something of a cantankerous Parisian himself, Kuper has watched the city change. This is a captivating memoir of today’s Paris without the clichés.

Get your copy via Waterstones now!

#ImpossibleCity #Paris #Paperback #Bookstagram #Waterstones

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