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.

Bestselling author of The Girl With All The Gifts, M. R. Carey, discuses writing his new novel, Fellside.

Reece Dinn, one of our booksellers in the Liverpool One branch, has a few questions about genre. What are the hidden rules that decide which section a book is shelved under? Who decides this and what effect does it have on how the book is perceived?

Comic writer and novelist M.R. Carey, author of our Book Club book of the week The Girl With All The Gifts, explains why he thinks the scariest kind of evil is the kind that comes from inside.

Read the first chapter of M.R. Carey's gripping novel, The Girl With All the Gifts - our Book Club book for this week.

Just in time for your holiday, here's our latest batch of brilliant Book Club reads...