Helen Czerski is a physicist, oceanographer and broadcaster with a passion for revealing the wonder in our everyday lives. Her fascination with the world of fast-moving, small-scale phenomena led her first to undertake a PhD in Experimental Explosive Physics at Cambridge University and has since led her to the study of ocean bubble formation. Her first book A Storm in a Teacup is a brilliantly entertaining introduction to physics in general that manages to make this hugley complex topic accessible to all.

Award-winning author and illustrator duo Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell discuss their mutual love of illustration and their newest collaboration, Neverwhere.

Illustration hyperstar Oliver Jeffers, the genius behind the instant-classics Lost and Found and How to Catch a Star, and ground-breaking typographer Sam Winston present A Child of Books. Watch the video below.

On the eve of her new novel The Gustav Sonata's publication, Orange and Whitbread-winning author Rose Tremain looks back on forty years of writing and the unexpected places it has taken her.

Bestselling historian Alison Weir introduces the first book in her new six-part series on Henry VIII's wives, Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen.

The Strawberry Girl is a fictional account of where Edvard Munch's The Scream began.

Irvine Welsh's new and foreboding novel shows a very different side to the character of Francis Begbie from Trainspotting.

Waterstones Liverpool hosted a night of lively conversation between Alexei Sayle and Frank Cottrell Boyce at the Liverpool Philharmonic.

Jeffrey Deaver is a renowned crime writer with over 35 books under his belt. Here he talks about his newest project: a book on the craft of writing itself.

A short, poetic video that captures a little of James Rebanks' life as a Lake District shepherd.

Let master children's fiction illustrator, and the Waterstones Children's Laureate, Chris Riddell show you a thing or two about drawing.

Let master children's fiction illustrator, and the Waterstones Children's Laureate, Chris Riddell show you a thing or two about drawing.