B.P. Walter’s debut A Version of the Truth is a taut, page-turning thriller of dark histories and terrible secrets, split between the London of now and an Oxford University in the nineties. Walter’s love and deep knowledge of the genre was initially honed as a bookseller for Waterstones, and in recent years he has leant this same understanding to our central social media accounts. We're thrilled to now present his five top psychological thrillers – as both a colleague and friend, I can tell you that you're in for a very informed treat...

"I found peace in the allotment and I found understanding. In quiet, I find what I feel."

As a child, Allan Jenkins was raised in children’s homes and foster care. In his moving memoir, Plot 29, he interweaves his journey to find the truth about his own family history with a chronicle of a year on the allotment. In an exclusive interview for Waterstones, he discusses family, memory and the solace he finds in gardening.

A consistently innovative and challenging voice, Zadie Smith has been a cut above since her ground-breaking debut White Teeth burst joyfully and anarchically into being sixteen years ago. As her latest novel Swing Time takes its place in a compellingly strong 2017 Booker Longlist Zadie Smith talks to us about her love of dance, the movement of time and the lure of charismatic characters.

Few fantasy series of recent times have had the impact of Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London; its deviously brilliant fusion of old wizards, ghouls and a certain special division of the London Metropolitan Police quickly found an appreciative audience hungry for his take on a rather extraordinary London. It’s also a source of real Waterstonic pride too to say that our lovely shop in Covent Garden (of course!) once benefited from Ben’s bookselling presence, so we always consider Ben as one of our own.

With the sixth in the seriesThe Hanging Tree published today, Ben was kind enough to pen a letter for readers, both for those already in love with the series and the rest who are about to be.

Samantha Shannon, author of the dystopian The Bone Season and its newly-published sequel, The Mime Order, explores her own future vision of London.

James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti explain how their book London: the Information Capital fits into a long tradition of visualising the capital's data - and why it's important that its not published digitally.

What book should you read depending on your way into work tomorrow?

In an exclusive Waterstones event at the end of 2013, Donna Tartt spoke to Kirsty Wark and a sell-out audience about her latest novel, The Goldfinch...

Not only is Jimmy Rabbitte back in Roddy Doyle's latest novel The Guts, but he and The Commitments are about to rock London's West End. Here Doyle himself tells us a little about the journey from page to stage...