As part of the 2024 Farsley Literature Festival, join us in the shop as cosy crime writer Jonathan Hall chairs an evening of discussion with Tom Hindle and Rachel North. The panel will explore the lure of a glamorous location for thriller writers.
As part of the 2024 Farsley Literature Festival we are proud to announce, an afternoon at the Old Woollen with award winning author Sir Ian Rankin as he introduces us to the brand new John Rebus thriller ‘Midnight and Blue’, which will be released in October.
They say there is nowhere more dangerous for a cop than prison. John Rebus is about to find out just how true that is.
Join us in the shop for something very different, with drinks and escape room challenges, as author L.D. Smithson talks to us about her gripping new thriller – The Escape Room.
In February 2024 Leona published her first stand-alone thriller, The Escape Room, under the name L.D. Smithson. Her second standalone, The Shame Game, is due in 2025. All Leona’s novels draw on her experience as a psychologist.
Join us as we collaborate with Hyde Park Book Club, to bring you a collection of creatives!
Find new furnishings, awesome artwork and more at our second market at HPBC.
The Leeds-based SI Leeds Literary Prize is a biennial award for unpublished fiction by UK-based Black and Asian women. The prize aims to act as a loudspeaker for underrepresented voices and to connect writers with new audiences and opportunities.
Join professional writer and teacher Chris and explore the world of memoir writing.
A memoir is a narrative written from your perspective, which can be about an important aspect of your life. As well as being an empowering personal journey, writing a memoir can help you share priceless life experiences so that they can inspire others.
Waterstones Leeds is thrilled to have author and historian Laura Beers joining us on the 7th of August at 6:30pm to talk about her new book, Orwell's Ghosts.
Seventy-five years after 1984 first published, George Orwell is back. Progressives denounce ‘Orwellian’ untruths by Trump, Johnson, Putin et al, while conservatives accuse governments and mainstream media of ‘Orwellian’ censorship. But what does ‘Orwellian’ really mean? What would the man himself say about these crises, and what can we learn from his ideas?
House of YA is going on the road to celebrate our summer of love!
Whether it is romantasy, rom-com, slow-burn or enemies-to-friends-to-lovers and back again, we have a YA romance you’re bound to fall in love with.
The Authors:
Bea Fitzgerald, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Greek myth romantasy Girl, Goddess, Queen. Bea’s hotly anticipated new novel The End Crowns All is a sapphic reimagining of the Trojan War and features a simmering slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance that will have readers yearning for more.
We're delighted to announce that we will be joined by Steve Cavanagh on 31st July.
Cavanagh's new book Witness 8 returns to a well-loved character: Eddie Flynn returns in another pulsating legal thriller from the author of Kill for Me, Kill for You, as a twisted witness to a murder begins her own deadly game.
The Burnt House begins with the house – and a body: Alan Hobbes stabbed to death in his own bed.
For years, he’s lived as a recluse in the remains of a derelict mansion that once belonged to a serial killer.
We're thrilled to announce that we have Ami Charlize joining us for a Meet & Greet Signing to celebrate the launch of her book, My World.
Told with her trademark humility and honesty, this part memoir, part self-help guide reveals how social media sensation Ami Charlize has navigated the challenges and successes of young adulthood.