Books Archive
Please note, all articles written before December 2005 are listed here.
2010
- Balthazar Jones and the Tower of London Zoo - Julia Stuart (preview)
- Obituary: JD Salinger
- Polar Obsession - Paul Nicklen
- Snobs - Julian Fellowes
- Stephen Fry retires to pen autobiography
2009
- Anthony Browne named Children's Laureate
- Clint Eastwood Icon: The Ultimate Film Art Collection - Preview
- Confessions of a Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella interview
- Costa Book of the Year Award 2009: Sebastian Barry triumphs
- Creation - Randal Keynes interview
- Cross - James Patterson
- Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol breaks records
- Darwin book sells for £35,000
- Frank McCourt dies in New York
- Halo Encyclopedia - Preview
- Jodie Prenger - book and CD signing
- Man Booker Prize 2009: Longlist revealed
- Man Gone Down wins Impac Dublin Literary Award
- Mutiny on the Bounty - John Boyne
- Nature's Great Events - BBC
- Obituary: Donald Westlake
- Obituary: John Updike
- Obituary: Sir John Mortimer
- Past Imperfect - Julian Fellowes
- Patrick Swayze to write memoirs
- Queen's Birthday Honours: Andrew Motion leads literary recipients
- Richard And Judy select 2009 book list
- Rick Stein - Coast To Coast (Preview)
- Ripley’s Believe It Or Not 2009 (Preview)
- Robert Harris at Waterstone's Piccadilly
- The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
- The Lost Symbol due out in September 2009
- The Lost Symbol release to be marked by puzzles
- The Men Who Stare At Goats - Jon Ronson interview
- The Other Queen - Philippa Gregory
- The Thames - Derek Pratt
- The Time Traveler's Wife
- The Water Horse - Julia Gregson
- The Wise Woman - Philippa Gregory
- Winnie The Pooh to make a comeback (2009)
- Wolf - Rebecca L. Grambo
2008
- A Portrait of the Brain - Professor Adam Zeman
- Author Miles Kington dies
- Call the Midwife - Jennifer Worth
- Concepts of Nature - Andy Rouse
- Confessions of a Lapdancer (review)
- Confessions of a Lapdancer - Preview
- Constance - Rosie Thomas
- Culinaria Italy
- DB Shan talks Procession of the Dead
- Doris Lessing receives Nobel Prize for Literature
- Galaxy British Book Awards 2008
- Garden Photographer of the Year, Collection 01
- Global 200: Places That Must Survive
- Global Safari - James Parry
- Growing Up Wild - Thorsten Milse
- Harry Potter and Nigella Lawson are Britain's favourite reads
- Indiana Jones: The Official Magazine and Comic returns
- JK Rowling pens Harry Potter prequel
- JK Rowling wins top prize at South Bank Show Awards
- Keycode Strategies of Superflirts by Peta Heskell
- Movie London - Preview
- New Year's Honours 2009: Terry Pratchett
- No Country For Old Men - Preview
- No Country For Old Men - Read an extract
- Obituary: Arthur C Clarke
- Obituary: Michael Crichton
- Paulo Coelho's The Witch of Portobello and Brida
- Procession of the Dead - DB Shan (Preview)
- Silk (Penny Jordan) - Preview
- Silk - Penny Jordan (review)
- Tate To Tate: An Illustrated Walk Along London's South Bank - Preview & competition
- Terry Pratchett to donate $1 million towards Alzheimer's research
- The Boleyn Inheritance - Philippa Gregory
- The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne interview
- The Flirt by Kathleen Tessaro - Preview
- The Meaning of Night - Michael Cox
- The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency headed for TV
- The oddest book title of the year - the winner is...
- The Pirate's Daughter - Margaret Cezair-Thompson
- The Simple Rules of Love - Amanda Brookfield
- The Tenderness of Wolves - Stef Penney
- Those Faraday Girls - Monica McInerney
- Time Out: London Calling - Preview
- Torchwood: Two new audio books available
- Vanishing World: The Endangered Arctic
- Waterstone's offer an extra £5 off for Valentine's
- Waterstone's Piccadilly to welcome Lucy Fleming
- Waterstone's: Indiana Jones movie companions and novels
- Wolf Empire - Scott Ian Barry
- Wrath Of A Mad God - Preview
2007
- 24: Behind The Scenes
- A Pair of Silver Wings - James Holland
- A Year in the Life of Kew Gardens
- Booker Prize 2007: Anne Enright wins
- Gallery of Steam - Steam Railway Magazine
- Harry Potter fans begin book sale frenzy
- In the Company of the Courtesan - Sarah Dunant
- Incy Wincy Spider and others
- Ira Levin dies
- Iris & Ruby - Rosie Thomas
- Italy: The Best Travel Writing from The NY Times
- Jane Austen imitations rejected by publishers
- JK Rowling admits to nerves on eve of final Harry Potter release
- JK Rowling begins work on two new books
- Kommandant's Girl - Pam Jenoff
- Life on the Wing - Brutus Ostling and Magnus Ullman
- Lionel Aggett's Italy - September 5 launch
- Little Polar Bears - Thorsten Milse
- Living Steam with Anthony Lambert
- Maestros, Masterpieces and Madness: The Secret Life and Shameful Death of the Classical Record Industry - Norman Lebrecht
- Make Way For Ducklings - Robert McCloskey
- Man Booker Prize 2007: McEwan leads longlist
- Notes on a Scandal - Zoe Heller
- Pompeii - Review
- Rhett Butler's People - Donald McCaig
- Rowling book auctioned for almost £2 million
- Sebastian Darke: Prince of Fools - An extract
- Sebastian Darke: Prince of Fools - Philip Caveney (Preview)
- Sebastian Faulks is the new James Bond author
- Sinatra: Frank and Friendly (preview)
- The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
- The Children of Húrin - J.R.R. Tolkien (preview)
- The Frozen World - Patrick Hook
- The Great Book of World Heritage Sites
- The Great National Parks of the World
- The House at Riverton - Kate Morton
- The Queen of Subtleties - Suzannah Dunn
- The Sea - Cube Book
- The Winter Rose - Jennifer Donnelly
- Valerie Singleton to write autobiography
- Volcano - Richard Doyle
- Waterstone's at the flicks: Our pick of the hottest movie tie-ins
- Waterstone's offer 10% off everything until end of September
- Waterstone's PICCADILLY: Meet Helen Mirren and Quentin Tarantino
- Waterstones offer 15% off ALL orders
- White Nature - Vincent Munier
2006
- A Year in the Life of Richmond - Joanna Jackson
- Baby Animals - Angela Serena Ildos
- Bad Twin - Lost character's best-seller (preview)
- Blackmail, Scandal and Revolution, London's French libellistes 1758-1792 - Simon Burrows
- Bond On Set: Filming Casino Royale - Greg Williams
- Butterflies of the World
- City Of Fallen Angels - Venice and La Fenice
- Clint Eastwood - Christian Authier
- Eastwood - Robert Tanitch
- Elephant! - Steve Bloom
- March of the Penguins - Luc Jacquet
- Mary, Mary - James Patterson
- Moon Dust - Andrew Smith
- Nature - Olivier Grunewald and Bernadette Gilbertas
- New York Moments - Bernd Obermann
- One Planet. A Celebration of Biodiversity
- Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry - Bill Fulford, Tim Thornton & George Graham
- Planet Earth - Alastair Fothergill
- Steam on Canvas - Philip D Hawkins
- Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
- Straw Dogs Revisited
- Tête-a-Tête: Sartre and de Beauvoir – Beds and Reds
- The Borgia Bride - Jeanne Kalogridis
- The Burning Blue - James Holland
- The Circle of Life - Anup and Manoj Shah
- The Da Vinci Code - Review
- The Island - Victoria Hislop
- The Summer I Dared - Barbara Delinsky
- The Venetian House - Mary Nickson
- The World Of The Polar Bear - Norbert Rosing
- Touching Earth - Rani Manicka
- U2byU2 - Preview