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Join us for an evening with You Tuber, Amelia Mandeville talking about her debut novel Every Colour of You What happens when someone who lives every day to the full meets someone who can only see reasons to stop living? Zoe’s life is full of colour, yoga, and inspirational quotes – she’s on a mission to make the…

Our Poetry Society Stanza group is free to attend and is open to all poetry lovers and practitioners from expert to beginner! Brum Stanza is run on a monthly basis, there will be poetry workshops, visits from poets and poetry publishers, opportunities to improve your performance of poetry and much more. This is a…

Waterstones Birmingham will be hosting an event in store to with two of the contributors to the new anthology, The Colour of Madness. With a forward by the therapist, activist and feminist, Guilaine Kinouani and, contributions from mental health sufferers, mental health workers, and psychiatrists the anthology is a…

Waterstones Birmingham are very excited to invite you to an evening with Ben Aaronovitch who will be discussing his latest novel, Lies Sleeping. *Martin Chorley, aka the Faceless Man, wanted for multiple counts of murder, fraud and crimes against humanity, has been unmasked and is on the run. Peter Grant, Detective…

Waterstones Birmingham are delighted to welcome best selling & incredibly popular author Laini Taylor to our store to talk about her breathtaking new novel "Muse of Nightmares". In this sweeping new novel Laini - author of the New York Times bestselling Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy - welcomes us back into a…

Come and join us for a Harry Potter fun-filled weekend to celebrate the launch of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald! There'll be potions in our cafe, fancy dress, competitions and puzzles, and there may even be some real life fantastic beasts! Entry is free but register with us to pre-order your copy of…

Join us at the last and liveliest Verve Poetry Press launch event of 2018! Hannah Swingler will be launching her fantastic debut collection This dress has pockets. She describes it best: 'It has the quirky charm of finding a dress that fits and looks fire on your figure and is also functional beyond gendered expectations…

Come and join us in store for a day celebrating the bear from Darkest Peru, Paddington! For nearly sixty years, Paddington Bear has touched the hearts of adults and children worldwide with his earnest good intentions and humorous misadventures. We will have lots of lovely Paddington activities! Come and join us…

Whether you write short fiction yourself or appreciate just reading it there will be something for you to enjoy. We will have interesting discussions around individual pieces, conduct workshops to help us understand short fiction better and there will also be the opportunity to share any stories that you may have written…

Waterstones Birmingham and Crime Scene Books are very excited to invite you to a launch event for Steel and Shadows by Stuart Field. No-nonsense NYPD detective Sam McCall is investigating one of the deadliest and most complex cases of her career when the mysterious, yet infuriatingly intriguing, John Steel insinuates…

Waterstones Birmingham are very excited to invite you to an evening with three fabulous authors, Lucy Christopher, Kat Ellis and Rhian Ivory, in discussion with the lovely Chelley Toy. The authors will be joining Chelley to talk about their new book, Three Strikes, a collection of three dark novellas from three star YA…

Toddler storytime returns! Come and join us on our children's floor where we will be reading The Giant Jumperee by Julia Donaldson. This event does not require booking.

The nineteenth century 'rediscovery' of Egypt witnessed by David Roberts, 19thcentury artist, also saw the pillaging of desert-edge cemeteries in the Nile Valley with consequent disturbance of ancient family vaults and dispersal of their grave goods across the world. Much of this material has lurked unnoticed in museum…

Waterstones Birmingham would like to invite you to a very special evening of storytelling with Cath Edwards. West Midlands Folk Tales is brimming with all kinds of stories that have grown out of this richly diverse county. There are tales of ghosts, highwaymen and working people, legends that are ancient and modern…