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Best summer reads for 2024: Books to enjoy on holiday in the sunshine

Hot weather literature that’s aching to be yellowed by Ambre Solaire and spilled Pimm’s

Evening Standard

New book ’Fila: Timelapse’ explores the sportswear brand’s past, present and future

Published by Rizzoli, ’Fila: Timelapse’ combines archival imagery, essays, poems and historic advertising for an unorthodox biography of the Italian sportswear brand best known for its links to tennis

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Botanical fairytale set in Kew Gardens wins the Waterstones children’s book prize

Greenwild: The World Behind the Door by Pari Thomson – about a girl who finds a door to a magical realm while searching for her mother – wins the overall and young readers awards

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’Issey Miyake: 1960 to 2022’ is a definitive guide to the pioneering Japanese designer

’Issey Miyake: 1960 to 2022’ is a new Taschen book that provides a comprehensive overview of the pioneering Japanese designer’s ’poetic but pragmatic’ work

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Best manga of all time that everyone should read

Explore the artistic dramatics of Japanese storytelling

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Currys rejects higher £742m offer from US group Elliott

UK electronics retailer’s board says bid from Waterstones owner undervalues the company

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18 of the best dark academia books

Mischief and mayhem within dramatically scholarly settings

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Waterstones profits plunge as warehouse glitch costs £13.5 million

Profits tumbled from £50.6 million to £11.2 million

Evening Standard

Best books to spark queer joy in 2024

From queer cannon classics to coffee table crowd-pleasers, these books speak to the beauty of queer love in all its forms

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House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J Maas races to the top of bestseller chart

The third book in the Crescent City series becomes third fastest-selling science fiction and fantasy title since records began

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21 of the Greatest American novels that everyone should read

From historical classics to postmodern marvels

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Best contemporary novels to read in 2024, from Wandering Souls to Hamnet

Start the year off right with some 21st century classics

Evening Standard

Millions wasted on attempt to create nationwide UK library website, campaigners claim

Former Waterstones boss Tim Coates among those to criticise government, Arts Council and British Library bid to create a ‘single digital presence’ for libraries

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24 of the best-selling novels of all time to read in 2024

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Best detective book series to get lost in gripping mysteries

Ravenous mysteries and mind-boggling motives

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This winter’s most stylish fashion books revisit the greats, from Coco Chanel to Karl Lagerfeld

Coco Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld are the subjects of the season’s most transporting fashion books, ready to sustain the style-conscious bibliophile through the cold winter months

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Outlander star Sam Heughan signs books at Glasgow Waterstones

OUTLANDER star Sam Heughan delighted fans with a visit to a Glasgow bookstore.

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Meet Christmas Dad – the hardest person on Earth to buy for

Forget Waterstones Dad, publishing’s latest target demographic is Christmas Dad - so what treats does he have in store

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Best crime fiction books: Murder mysteries and detective novels that will have you hooked

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Best spy novels of all time to read for a classic espionage yarn

Killer espionage and classic villains

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This book charts Karl Lagerfeld’s life through his extraordinary homes

Karl Lagerfeld‘s stylish life was complemented by an equally chic array of homes, revealed in a new book that also gives a glimpse of the fashion designer’s eclectic eye for interiors

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Royal book at centre of racism row barely stirs a ripple on London streets

Few rushed to buy the book, despite hype over claims two royals discussed skin colour of Prince Harry and Meghan’s first child

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Waterstones Book of the Year 2023: Katherine Rundell wins top prize with Impossible Creatures

The book was described as “as close to perfect as fiction gets: immaculate world-building, dazzling storytelling, and adventure galore"

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Katherine Rundell wins Waterstones book of 2023 with ‘immediate classic’

Impossible Creatures, about a realm where all the creatures of myth still live, was declared ‘as close to perfect as fiction gets’ by the retailer’s head of books

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Alice Winn: ‘We live in the fossilised wreckage of world war one’

The author of In Memoriam, a contender for Waterstones book of the year, on borrowing first-hand accounts of combat, running sex scenes past her gay friends and the eternal impact of the great war

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