Matt Haig, the author of How to Stop Time and Reasons to Stay Alive, explores the power of books as a source for healing.
A photographic journey through some of the incredible journeys chronicled in Skybound, a memoir of hope and self-discovery.
"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.
Now at sixty, novelist, translator and passionate environmentalist Dexter Petley has turned his attention to his own past with the significant memoir Love Madness Fishing. Waterstones Online’s Peter Whitehead introduces Petley’s own reflections on the genesis of this searching new work.
Waterstones Liverpool hosted a night of lively conversation between Alexei Sayle and Frank Cottrell Boyce at the Liverpool Philharmonic.
From The Second Half, Roy Keane discusses his FA disciplinary hearing.
Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk becomes to the first memoir to win the prestigious award for non-fiction writing.
Read an extract from Maxim Leo's Red Love: The Story of an East German Family where the author his recalls arrest and interrogation...
Danny Baker shares an extract from his second volume of memoirs - Going Off Alarming.
Nat Jansz speaks to Chris Stewart on writing our Book Club book of the week, Last Days of the Bus Club.
Award-winning actress and comic writer Rebecca Front shares an extract from her new book Curious.
Former Waterstones Bookseller Andy Miller has many fond memories of his time working amongst the shelves - some of which he touches on in his book, The Year of Reading Dangerously. But it's those brushes with celebrity which Booksellers enjoy so much which he's most eager to share...
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