The Darkland Tales series continues with a retelling of the infamously doomed Darien Scheme 🗺️ Told as a series of letters home from an expedition scientist, it’s a moment in history that shaped Scotland’s future.

The Booker Prize longlist stacked with so many of our favourites! 👑 Including of course our Debut Prize winner, and previous Booker winner Glasgow’s own Douglas Stuart

Handheld horrors! 🕯️ Discover the spooky wee novellas of the Eden book society - a mysteriously occult publishing family or a literary hoax by some of our favourite authors? Find out if you dare…

A sexy, sultry summer in the south of France with his wealthy boyfriend’s family turns sour when the glamorous facade starts to crack open 🌅 Take Saltburn, mix in some classic Brideshead Revisited, and add the power of a brilliant debut writer 🍸

Monsters, mythology & mayhem abound in The Harbour of Hungry Ghosts! Join us to discover this kickass adventure set in opium-war era Hong Kong with Eliza Chan - introducing us to Kiamling, who has to step up when her grandmother is snatched by strange new monsters at the hungry ghost festival.

Tucked in the pages of her fathers historic manuscript, Marie Maitland hid her queer love poems ✍️ discovered by Ashley Douglas, this is the fascinating true story of a remarkable woman from 16th century Scotland. Thanks to Ashley for coming in to sign copies of her groundbreaking book!

Sunday Staff Reads! 📖 This week Jack has been reading Evenings And Weekends, perfect summer reading, it’s set across one scorching weekend as a group of interconnected Londoners each find themselves at a turning point in their lives 🌇

Join us to celebrate the launch of The High Island, the start of a heart-racing new series of Orcadia Mysteries from Scottish crime writing legend Lin Anderson. www.waterstones.com/events/an-evening-with-lin-anderson/glasgow-argyle-street-167752

The Winner of the Waterstones Debut Fiction prize 🏆 May We Feed The King is a book we’ve long loved, it’s the intertwined stories of a museum curator & the king whose imagined life she begins to lose herself in 🍇👑🍐 sensuous, artistic & playfully mysterious

Who’s ready for The Odyssey? 🏺 The most epic journey home in literature moves from the small page to the big screen.

Could you survive Basgiath? 🗡️🐉 Find out with our new Game of the Month, a game of strategy, rivalry, ambition & alliance, exclusively at Waterstones!

Sunday Staff Reads! 📖 This week Kev has been reading Suicide Blonde, one of the new Cult Canons series, it’s an intoxicated descent into San Francisco’s grungy underworld of sex, drugs, and blurred boundaries.

Glasgow’s Rom-Com Queen returns! ✨💞 The girls of The Dictionary Club are headed to NYC, but will their gossip girl fantasies come true or is the big apple simply full of worms?

Sunday Staff Reads! 📖 Becca & Keela have been reading the Women’s Prize winner The Correspondent, the heartwarming story of a reclusive letter writer who opens up her world to new opportunities ✍️

We are in love with these new ‘brief encounters’ from Vintage 🫰 Tiny, timeless, & beautifully designed, there’s one for each week of the year.

Sun-drenched, heart-felt, page-turning Books of the Month! 🌞 July’s picks have seduction, betrayal, cliffhangers, troubled relationships, Greek mountains, Scottish legends, teen prodigies & one mysterious bar serving magical drinks 🍸

We are thrilled to have Silvia Moreno-Garcia making a rare trip to Scotland for The Intrigue 🚬🕶️ A noir mystery following a handsome conman & the young woman who might scupper all his plans. Get a ticket at www.waterstones.com/events/silvia-moreno-garcia-launches-the-intrigue/glasgow-argyle-street

Pride Month may be coming to an end, but there’s fabulous queer reading to be done all year round 🌈🫰 These are just a few of the new books catching our eye.

Join us for an evening of thrills & spills, psychological horrors & mysterious strangers! 💀 British Fantasy Award winner Rhiannon Grist & shop fave Neil Williamson will be discussing their chilling new books with Rebecca Wojturska of Haunt Publishing, horror fans this is an evening not to miss!

The perfect summer escape! 🌞 We wish we could run away to Villa Coco, with its eccentric baroness and her litter of pugs, collection of equally quirky friends, and trove of antiques under the Tuscan sun - an ideal spot for a young American archivist to find himself.

Queen of Thrills Lisa Jewell joins us for a lunchtime signing of her new book It Could Have Been Her, another page-turning, pulse-pounding story from one of our favourite authors. Reserve your spot to meet Lisa and get a copy of her new book at 50% off included with your ticket!

Sunday Staff Reads! 📖 This week Gill has been reading The Expansion Project, a surreal, severance-esque satire of corporate life where ‘bring-your-daughter-to-work day’ starts of a dizzyingly absurd chain of events 🕴️

Wild women & powerful folklore! Kim Willis gives us a sneak peek of what to expect at her upcoming event with us on June 23rd - ancient matriarchs, shape-shifting enchantresses, scaly nymphs & goddesses who once commanded our lands. www.waterstones.com/bookshops/gl...

Alan Parks & his soldier-turned-spy Gunner return with Deception 🕵🏻‍♂️ New York, nazis, the mob, a growing body count, this heart racing thriller has it all! Don’t miss out on a ticket, available now on Waterstones.com

Sunday Staff Reads! 📖 Jack’s pride month pick is All Them Dogs, the bold, brash, & violently compelling story of Tony Ward’s return to Dublin & the gangland life he can’t seem to escape. Brilliantly written & as surprising as a headbutt, this is a debut not to be missed 👊

Evenings at the bookshop in June 📚 We’ve got a stacked list of authors visiting us this month, come along to meet an old favourite or discover a new one! 🎟️ Browse the list & get tickets at Waterstones.com/events

The queer dark academia romp of your dreams has arrived! ✨ Magic, mayhem, torture & toxic friends, don’t miss out on meeting Lex & discovering the world of Briar Jones at our launch next Friday! Grab a ticket now at Waterstones.com, what a way to start pride month 🔮

A high NRG, whip-smart look at the state of modern Britain through the eyes of a disparate band of rave rebels. 🤘🏻 The brilliant Graeme Armstrong, author of The Young Team returns with a story that runs from the Coatbridge Time Capsule all the way to national raving resistance.

A breathtaking epic of hope, love, family and Irish history 🗺️ The incomparable Maggie O’Farrell returns with a story set in the aftermath of famine as a father & son set out to map the country for the ordnance survey.

Meet one of our new books of the month, take them up to the cafe and they’ll buy you a hot drink ☕️ Bookish date for one please xx