Waterstones High Street

Join our book club as they discuss Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce. There is no need to book for this event. Just read the book and meet the group in our cafe for a spirited discussion.

Every Wednesday we run a free weekly board game day. Come to our cafe to play our selection of board games, or bring your own games along. There's no need to book - just turn up and join in.

Every Wednesday we run a free weekly board game day. Come to our cafe to play our selection of board games, or bring your own games along. There's no need to book - just turn up and join in.

Enjoy a relaxed, informal evening celebrating the launch of Kate Mallinder’s teen book, Asking for a Friend. Award winning book blogger Michelle Toy will be in conversation with Kate chatting about feel-good fiction, second books and why stories for teens are vital. Opportunity to get books signed and eat…

Join us for the launch of B. B. Taylor's latest children's book - The Vigilante Tooth Fairy: Children have stopped believing in magic, no longer leaving their teeth out for the fairies. No teeth, no magic and no more fairies! Time is rapidly running out. Enter one little fairy, Mouse, always told she’s too small * to…

Join us for the launch of Sheryl Miller's book Smashing Stereotypes: How To Get Ahead When You're The Only _ In The Room. In her thought-provoking debut, Sheryl Miller provides advice, motivation and encouragement to those that don’t always feel like they belong in corporate spaces. Based on over 20 years of life in…

Join us for an evening with Christina Henry, author of Alice and Red Queen, and Tim Lebbon, author of The Silence (now a major Netflix film) as they discuss fantasy, horror, and their latest books. Bestselling author Christina Henry is back with four new novellas set in her fan-favourite Alice universe that sees the…

Join us for a hilarious evening about the ups and downs of motherhood with Emma Conway, aka brummymummyof2, at the launch of her new book Will I Ever Pee Alone Again ? on Thursday 5th March, 6.00pm-8.00pm. Emma will be in conversation with Alison Perry, host of Not Another Mummy Podcast. Tickets for this are £3 and…

Join us for an evening with Natasha Pulley, author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, and Zen Cho, author of Sorcerer to the Crown, as they discuss their latest books, writing sequels, and merging the fantastical with the historical. Natasha Pulley's first novel The Watchmaker of Filigree Street was an international…

Join us for an evening with historian William Dalrymple to celebrate the paperback publication of his latest book The Anarchy. The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company, based thousands of…

Join us to keep celebrating World Book Day between 10:30 - 12:30 on 7th margin-bottom: 0px;"> We'll also have a Supertato colouring activity. No need to book, just turn up and join in with this free activity. Bring your World Book Day tokens to spend.

Come in and colour your favourite animals!

We're joining Waterstones across the country in celebrating Isadora Moon day! Come and join us for lots of fun, free activities between 10:00 - 15:00.

Join us to celebrate 50 Mog-nificent years of a really remarkable family cat with a Mog storytime and activity. Kids will also have the opportunity to meet Mog herself if they attend the storytime at 11:00. 11:00 - Storytime and Meet Mog 10:00 - 15:00 - Activity

Join us for 10 free different activities featuring characters from Mike Brownlow's popular series of books. Find your way through the maze, solve puzzles, and make your own crown!

Join us for free activities based around the popular That's Not My… series between 10:00 - 15:00.

Join us as we celebrate the release of Hannah Sunderland's debut novel Very Nearly Normal with an evening of sparkling conversation between three fantastic contemporary authors; Hannah Sunderland, Isabelle Broom and Miranda Dickinson. Very Nearly Normal is Avon Books' event book for summer 2020. Playing into key…

Join queens of teen crime and the criminal masterminds behind bestsellers *One Of Us Is Lying *and *A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder *- Karen M. McManus and Holly Jackson - for this exclusive event at Waterstones Birmingham, chaired by Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller Gillian McAllister. Tickets £3 general admission In…

Join us to celebrate the exciting release of Luke Brown's latest novel, Theft. Luke will be in conversation with fellow author Catherine O'Flynn. Theft is a novel about the divisions in contemporary Britain, about north and south, rich and poor, men and women. Paul’s being kicked out of his flat in gentrified east…

Join us for the launch day of The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel's third and final installment in her Wolf Hall trilogy: 'Widely regarded as two of the greatest works of historical fiction, Hilary Mantel’s peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies have dazzlingly charted the rising…

Meet Ann Cleeves, the queen of crime, as she signs copies of her latest novel The Long Call (available in paperback from 20th Feb). Ann Cleeves is one of Britain’s most successful crime fiction authors. With millions of copies sold worldwide, her bestselling books are loved in print and on screen: both the Vera…

We are incredibly excited to have Ben Aaronovitch in store to sign copies of FALSE VALUE, the brand new novel in the Rivers of London series! Peter Grant is facing fatherhood, and an uncertain future, with equal amounts of panic and enthusiasm. Rather than sit around, he takes a job with émigré Silicon Valley tech…

Waterstones Birmingham is delighted to welcome Catana Chetwynd; author and illustrator of Catana Comics. Catana will be discussing her latest collection of doodles, Snug, with her fiancé, John. Snug is a new selection of comics from the author of the bestselling Little Moments of Love, Catana Chetwynd. Presenting a…

Come and Share a Story with us to celebrate World Book Day! Bring in your World Book Day tokens to spend on our special World Book Day books. Attend our special storytime at 12:00. Join in our free World Book Day activities, and colour in our World Book Day colouring sheets.

Join two New York Times bestselling authors at this exclusive event when they will be talking about their first collaborative book, Yes No Maybe So – a heart-warming, hilarious story about the power of love and resistance. After the talk you will have the opportunity to have books signed by Becky and Aisha. Copies of…