From harvest nights All Among the Barley to the Eastern Horizons we round up August's new books.

Found yourself enthralled by Margaret Atwood's haunting dystopian vision in The Handmaid's Tale? Here are our recommendations for 10 reads to to try next.

From Rumpelstiltskin's legacy to the robots of the future: welcome to our selection of the best new books in July.

Wartime stories, weird and wonderful flights of fancy; from the bones beneath our feet to the clues in the night-time skies, we offer our selection of the best of May’s publishing.

75 years after it was first published, we consider the enduring appeal of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's classic novel, The Little Prince.

Mike Carey, author of The Girl with All the Gifts and The Boy on The Bridge, knows a thing or two about creating gripping dystopian fiction. Here he rounds up some of his favourite apocalyptic reads exclusively for Waterstones.

Whether this Valentine's finds you loved-up, love sick, or simply locked away until the whole thing is over and done with, take comfort. Whatever your relationship status, these are the books to fall for this February.

Described by The Times as a book that "jumps straight into the top league of English noir", Joseph Knox's electrifying debut, Sirens is hypnotic reading, plunging readers headlong into the malevolent urban sprawl of Manchester’s criminal underbelly. Our Thriller of the Month for January, Sirens is a novel honed by Knox’s experience drawn from the bars and nightlife of the city, fused with his voracious hunger for the very best crime fiction. Who better then to suggest a trousseau of criminal delights? Here he selects an unmissable quartet: something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.

The author of the bestselling teen novels Orangeboy and Indigo Donut recommends five young adult reads she couldn't put down this year.