Welcome to this week’s news, reviews, and ‘all-things-books’ latest from the team at Waterstone’s Ballymena!
This week’s Top 10 bestselling books…
1. The Fury by Alex Michaelides
2. It Ends With Us by Coleen Hoover
3. The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
4. Material World by Ed Conway
5. Witness 8 by Steve Cavanagh
6. The Housemaid Is Watching by Freida McFadden
7. White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
8. My Favourite Mistake by Marian Keyes
9. Murder On Lake Garda by Tom Hindle
10. A Court Of Silver Flames by Sarah J Maas
Saturday Storytime…
Our next Saturday Storytime will take place on Saturday 17 August at 12pm.
We will be reading The Rainbow Flamingo by Catherine Emmett and Claire Powell.
This book teaches us to celebrate our differences and embrace our true selves. There will be colouring afterwards! This is a completely free event with no need to book, just show up. We look forward to seeing everyone there!
Sci-Fi and Fantasy Book Club…
Our next meeting will be held on Thursday 15 August at 7pm, where we will be discussing How To Become The Dark Lord And Die Trying by Django Wexler.
Don't worry if you haven't read the book, come along anyway for fun discussions, snacks and book reviews. No need to book - just turn up!
We look forward to seeing everyone.
New Releases…
• Heart, Be At Peace by Donal Ryan
This book Is as beautiful inside as it is out.
A companion piece to Ryan's modern classic The Spinning Heart, this characteristically eloquent and emotionally acute novel focuses on the tribulations of a rural Irish town through the prism of twenty-one distinct voices.
Coming up…
Keep a look out for our new Game Of The Month - it's going to be a good one!!