Poets & Writers Theater

In this Waterstones video, Bernadine Evaristo introduces her novel Girl, Woman, Other (Hamish Hamilton, 2019), which she describes as “fusion fiction” and a “celebration of Black womanhood,” and the books that influenced her as a young writer. Evaristo won the 2019 Booker Prize for Girl, Woman, Other, sharing the prize with Margaret Atwood for The Testaments (Chatto & Windus, 2019).

“I’m hoping that it makes the reader scared in their own particular way.” Sarah Perry talks with Will Rycroft at Waterstones about her third novel, Melmoth (Custom House, 2018), and its connections to fear, politics, and Charles Maturin’s 1820 novel Melmoth the Wanderer.

“What I’m often writing about is the sense of disappointment between how one wishes one would be and how one really is.” A. M. Homes speaks about her new story collection, Days of Awe (Viking, 2018), for Waterstones in London. Homes reads an excerpt from the book in the twentieth episode of Ampersand: The Poets & Writers Podcast.

“A book to me is an escape into a different world.” For National Book Lovers Day, here are some booksellers from Waterstones in the U.K. expressing their love of books.