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Everyone knows the vampire classics, but you'd be missing out if you didn't try some of the recent reimaginings of this ever-compelling monster!

Over on the Waterstones blog, author V.E.Schwab recommends five #vampire novels from the last five years: www.waterstones.com/blog/v-e-sch... #WBOTM🩸

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August 6, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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Welcome to August's Books of the Month! 🎇

An innovative meditation on history and storytelling, a claustrophobic thriller, a dangerous queer love story, a global locomotive journey, a shocking memoir, a gut-wrenching prequel and a moving story of survival... Which will you pick?

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A pile of the books in a bookshop: FICTION: May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry, YOUNG ADULT: Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins, NON-FICTION: Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams, SCI-FI/FANTASY: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab, THRILLER: Dead Heat by Sabine Durrant, NON-FICTION: Moonlight Express by Monisha Rajesh, CHILDREN'S: The Wild Ones by Steve Cole. (photo from waterstones facebook)
August 6, 2026 at 8:47 AM
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Death, resurrection, hunger, and rage...

A gorgeous and gothic queer love story following the desires and dreams of a trio of enigmatic young women, V.E. Schwab's BURY OUR BONES IN THE MIDNIGHT SOIL is Waterstones' Science fiction & Fantasy Book of the Month for August! #WBOTM 🦇🩸

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August 1, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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We have seen some stunning #Lifelines displays at Waterstones stores this month! Have you spotted the book out and about?

Thank you so much to @waterstones.bsky.social for choosing Julian Hoffman's stunning memoir as a Non-Fiction Book of the Month. #WBOTM

Get your copy now: bit.ly/4pF7kS6
July 27, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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Julian Hoffman, author of Waterstones Book of the Month #Lifelines, speaks to @theobserveruk.bsky.social about his spontaneous decision to up sticks for the Grecian wilderness:
observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece is out now #WBOTM #Greece #Travel
Why Julian Hoffman left London for a wild Greek lake
Born of a spontaneous decision to up sticks for the Grecian wilderness, Julian Hoffman’s poetic memoir is an inspiring call to throw caution to the wind
observer.co.uk
July 17, 2026 at 4:53 PM
eandtbooks.bsky.social
#Lifelines by @julianhoffman.bsky.social is a @waterstones.bsky.social Book of the Month!

Read more about this transporting #memoir on the Waterstones blog, where Julian tells how a chance encounter with a book changed his life forever:
www.waterstones.com/blog/julian-...
#WBOTM #Greece #Travel
July 16, 2026 at 10:04 AM
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Calling all @waterstones.bsky.social Plus customers! There's a brilliant Prize Draw running alongside the #Lifelines #BookOfTheMonth promotion! The winner will receive an A3 print from illustrator Matina Galati plus a Kew Gardens x Falcon Greek Olive Gift Set!

Enter here: bit.ly/4wowjvg #WBOTM
July 8, 2026 at 9:16 AM
eandtbooks.bsky.social
For @waterstones.bsky.social Plus customers there's a brilliant Prize Draw running alongside the #Lifelines #BookOfTheMonth promotion! The winner will receive an A3 print from illustrator Matina Galati plus a Kew Gardens x Falcon Greek Olive Gift Set!

More details: bit.ly/4wowjvg
#WBOTM #SummerBook
July 3, 2026 at 9:11 AM
eandtbooks.bsky.social
Waterstones #BookOfTheMonth #Lifelines is an exquisite account of relocation to a crossroads region of Greece called Prespa. In this @waterstones.bsky.social blog, author Julian Hoffman recounts how a chance book review kickstarted a life-changing adventure
www.waterstones.com/blog/julian-... #WBOTM
July 2, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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☀️ #Lifelines by @julianhoffman.bsky.social is a @waterstones.bsky.social Non-Fiction Book of the Month!

'Hoffman's exquisite account of relocation to a crossroads region of Greece called Prespa deftly blends travel and nature writing with history, memoir and ecology.’

bit.ly/3TcPFVy #WBOTM
July 1, 2026 at 9:49 AM
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Happy St David's Day!

We're also celebrating our new Welsh Book of the Month - Emma Kavanagh's brilliant, speculative eco-thriller, Every Time we Burn.

"Clever, gripping, utterly surprising" - Tammy Cohen

#StDavidsDay #DyddGŵylDewi #WBOTM
March 1, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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We are absolutely delighted to share that PAGANS by @jamesbluecat.bsky.social has been selected by @waterstones.bsky.social as their SFF Book of the Month for February! Head to your local branch to grab a copy of their special edition or order online here: www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/... #WBOTM
February 1, 2026 at 8:27 AM
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All the male actor WBOTM and heartthrobs watching Connor and Hudson steal the show after being on the scene for a month
January 12, 2026 at 3:27 AM
serialciara.bsky.social
End the WBOTM tyranny
June 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
bookishsff.bsky.social
'It all comes back to an equilibrium of power – imbalance can lead to chaos and ruin'

On the #Waterstones blog, author Lauryn Hamilton Murray explains the appeal of worlds based upon elemental magical systems & how they add to both story and character: www.waterstones.com/blog/lauryn-... #WBOTM 💙📚🪐
A banner featuring Waterstones YA book of the month Heir of Storms, by Lauryn Hamilton Murray and a photo of the author
June 9, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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'He tackles the need that people have for stories, frequently in prose to make other authors weep'

On the #Waterstones blog, Science fiction & Fantasy Book of the Month author @tkingfisher.com shares her five favourite fairytale retellings: www.waterstones.com/blog/t-kingf...

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June 6, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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All righty, first up in my current #SixFanarts run is everyone's new favorite WBOTM, Jason Duval from #GTA6!

#gay #gayart #gayartist #gaymer

NSFW of this one's going up on Patreon too!

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May 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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🐭 THRILLER OF THE MONTH! 🐭

We’re so excited that Sally Smith’s A Case of Mice and Murder, the first charming mystery starring Edwardian barrister Gabriel Ward, is @waterstones.bsky.social Thriller of the Month! 🗡️

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May 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Aprils WBOTM issssss

PATRICK BALL from The Pitt
April 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
realitykath.bsky.social
Bringing back White Boy Of The Month (WBOTM) . Usually based on what show I’m watching that month.
April 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM
swanseastones.bsky.social
Our #WelshBookOfTheMonth is Elizabeth O' Connor's stunning debut novel, #WhaleFall, set during the 1930s on a remote Welsh island.

'I didn't want it to end' - Maggie O'Farrell

'Powerful . . . written with a calm, luminous precision' - Colm Tóibín

#WBOTM
April 5, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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'The Kellerby Code began with its central character, Edward, and a fairly fragile idea that he was getting quite angry with his posh friends.'

Waterstones Thriller of the Month author Jonny Sweet has been out and about signing copies of his debut novel ✍️ #WBOTM
Jonny Sweet signing copies of his debut novel The Kellerby Code in a bookshop smiling at the camera. Jonny Sweet signing copies of his debut novel The Kellerby Code in a bookshop.
March 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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'I loved The Kellerby Code. The toxic friend group our lower class protagonist bends over backwards to fit into, the growing resentment of the effortless wealth and success and the inevitable tipping point.' Red, @waterstones.bsky.social bookseller

The Kellerby Code is out now in paperback 🔥 #WBOTM
A paperback edition of The Kellerby Code by Jonny Sweet is seen from directly above, lying on a beige cushion on a beige wicker chair.
March 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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A peek into Jonny Sweet's fictional country estate Kellerby House on the London Underground. Have you spotted our posters for The Kellerby Code yet? 👀 #WBOTM
A paperback copy of The Kellerby Code by Jonny Sweet is held in one hand in a corridor of a London Underground station, with a 4 sheet poster advertising the book in the background. A London Underground poster promoting The Kellerby Code by Jonny Sweet.
March 14, 2025 at 8:00 AM