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. It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
2. It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover
3. The Wrong Sister by Claire Douglas
4. Keep Smiling by Floella Benjamin
5. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
6. The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
7. The Figurine by Victoria Hislop
8. The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent
9. Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
10. None of This is True by Lisa Jewel
Saturday Storytime…
Our next Saturday Storytime will take place on Saturday 7th September at 12pm. We will be reading A Hero Called Wolf by Lucy Rowland & Ben Mantle.
We look forward to seeing everyone there. There will be colouring in afterwards!
Now Half Price…
• Precipice by Robert Harris
A masterclass in page-turning historical fiction from the bestselling author of Fatherland and Act of Oblivion, Precipice imagines the British Prime Minister on the verge of leading the nation into war and the secret love affair which could have world-changing implications.
New in…
• The Hotel Avocado by Bob Mortimer
The sparkling sequel to Mortimer's bestselling The Satsuma Complex fizzes with off-the-wall humour and mystery, as the arrival of the sinister Mr Sequence casts Gary's potential move to Brighton in a strange new light.
• Safe Enough by Lee Child
From the mega-selling author of the Jack Reacher series comes an exhilarating collection of twenty short stories featuring bodyguards, hitmen, gangsters and more.
• A Voyage around the Queen by Craig Brown
Bringing the same structural brilliance to a biography of Queen Elizabeth II as he did to her sister in Ma'am Darling and The Beatles in One Two Three Four, Craig Brown once again succeeds in finding revelatory angles and information about one of the most documented individuals of the last century.