Waterstones

An unforgettable debut loved by booksellers and readers from day one, THE ARTIST by Lucy Steeds is our 2025 #BookOfTheYear! 🎨 Darkly hilarious and utterly original, our Children's Book of the Year is THE CAFE AT THE EDGE OF THE WOODS by Mikey Please 👾 And your new pasta bible, PADELLA by Tim Siadatan is our Gift of the Year 🍝 Find them all here: https://lnkd.in/ej4EQS-b 

October 2025 saw the first ever Waterstones Barista Championship, with over 60 trailblazers whittled down in regional heats to a selection of eight for the final. Each of them were asked to design a unique, specialty, hand-crafted beverage, based on a book they love. The judges were blown away by the creativity, technique and skill employed and we’re delighted to share that 1st place went to Christine from Exeter whose creation, ‘Carrots! Carrots!’, was inspired by LM. Montgomery’s classic Anne of Green Gables. The drink itself was an iced carrot cake latte with homemade carrot cake syrup, organic carrot juice, organic whole milk and Monmouth espresso; topped with cream cheese cold foam and a replica of the signature topping from our best-selling ‘Ultimate Carrot Cake’. Huge thanks to our partners and suppliers at La Marzocco, Union Hand-Roasted Coffee, Minor Figures, Well Grounded Jobs CIC, and Cakesmiths, who all attended and provided prizes, judging support, equipment; everything we needed for the perfect event. And almost exactly a month later another of our finalists, Laura from Canterbury, was announced as UK La Marzocco Barista Hero for 2025. A fantastic achievement and yet another example of the depth of talent in our Waterstones cafe teams across the country. Congratulations to them all and huge thanks to Emma Smith, Head of Cafés, who made it all possible.

We’re #hiring. We are looking for a Direct Tax Manager to join us at our Solihull office. This is a new role that has been created to join our expanding tax team where you will be managing direct tax compliance for the Waterstones Group and provide support to the Head of Tax with tax compliance across the wider (UK headed) global group as well other UK advisory projects.

“We are looking for a Group Consolidation Manager to join our finance team in London for a 12-month fixed term contract. Reporting to Louis Redman this is a hands on role where you will support the smooth running of the financial consolidation process across the Group in the UK and US. Experience of IFRS and GAAP would be a distinct advantage.”

Edinburgh International Book Festival is underway and buzzing with author events, performances, family activities, food, drink and BOOKS! A massive shoutout to the incredible booksellers who are running our bookshop there as well as event spaces in the city. There really is nothing like Edinburgh at this time of year and with events running until 24 August it might be the perfect time for you to hear from and meet your favourite authors. Find full details at www.edbookfest.co.uk 

We're thrilled to announce the winner of the 2025 Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize, THE ARTIST by Lucy Steeds! 🎉 Blending mystery and slow-burning romance with lush, cinematic prose and exquisite characterisation, THE ARTIST is an intoxicating tale of art, love and secrets set across a sun-drenched Provençal summer in 1920: https://lnkd.in/eh6VC4z4 #WDFP

We're #hiring a new Agile Delivery Manager, based in London. This is a hybrid role (3 days in our Piccadilly office, 2 days at home) This is a role where you will enjoy being hands-on and solution oriented, with an inquisitive mind and have the desire to deliver – you will want to get things done. You will be supporting cross-functional teams of commercial, design, operations and engineering to ensure high-value outputs are consistently being delivered by the Digital teams. 

Celebrate 90 Years of Penguin at Waterstones Piccadilly in a special pop-up shop featuring over 1,000 books, Penguin memorabilia and curiosities, special audio and iconic design. Throughout the summer, this literary oasis will guide visitors through the rich history of an iconic publisher and its authors, telling the stories behind great fiction, non-fiction and children’s books - and helping you to find your next favourite summer read. https://lnkd.in/dYNu8wPT

We're #hiring a new Procurement Manager (Indirects) This is a Hybrid (3 days office / 2 days home) based in either London or Solihull. This is a diverse role where you will be able to strategise and negotiate with suppliers and vendors, and ensure purchases of products, equipment, and services across the company align with the company's strategic objectives. This role will also require you to embed a strong, compliant and effective procurement to pay process embedded across the company and roll out a PO process. 

We are thrilled to announce the shortlist for the fourth Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize! 🎉 Championed by booksellers across the country, this year's shortlist includes our first ever translated nomination and represents once more the exciting scope of contemporary storytelling, taking us from an artist's household in 1920s Provence to a deliciously wry study in family, Catholicism and queer identity in present-day Ireland, and from the life of an old man and his dog in northernmost Sweden to the mythical banks of the Saraswati River, by the way of a formative South of France summer holiday and an electrifying group portrait of three generations of Irish women: https://exyu.short.gy/WDFP #WDFP