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Join up-and-coming authors Julia Gray, Sue Wallman and Tracy Darnton for a special panel discussion about their brand new YA thrillers, chaired by Guardian critic Imogen Russell Williams. Be prepared for plenty of chat about writing amoral characters, toxic friendship and dark deception. But can we believe anything they say?
Julia Gray’s Little Liar is a twisty psychological thriller about seduction, envy and a friendship dangerously out of control, whilst Sue Wallman’s Your ...Turn to Die is a psycho-chiller bound to wake up your darkest phobias. Tracy Darnton’s fast-paced debut novel, The Truth About Lies, explores the boundaries of memory and the power of lies.
Tickets are priced at £3 (available online at Waterstones.com) which is redeemable against the price of any book sold at the event.
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Our March/ April Events -

Waterstones Islington invites you to join us in welcoming Jessie Greengrass for an evening of discussion about her new novel, Sight.
Jessie is the author of the acclaimed short story collection An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It. Sight, described by Max Porter as 'One of the finest English novels I've read,' is her debut novel.
Jessie will be signing copies of her books after the event. Refreshments will be provided.
... About the Book:
It seemed, at times, an act of profound selfishness, to have a child so that I might become a parent; but selfish, too, to have a child and stay the same, or not to have one - unless the only honest choice would have been to try to become this kinder version of myself without the need to bring another into it . . .
In Sight a woman recounts her progress to motherhood, while remembering the death of her own mother, and the childhood summers she spent with her psychoanalyst grandmother. Woven among these personal recollections are significant events in medical history: Wilhelm Rontgen's discovery of the X-ray and his production of an image of his wife's hand; Sigmund Freud's development of psychoanalysis and the work that he did with his daughter, Anna; John Hunter's attempts to set surgery on a scientific footing and his work, as a collaborator with his brother William and the artist Jan van Rymsdyk, on the anatomy of pregnant bodies. What emerges is the realisation that while the search for understanding might not lead us to an absolute truth, it is an end in itself.
Wonderfully intelligent, brilliantly written and deeply moving, Sight is a novel about how we see others, and how we might know ourselves.
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Waterstones Islington is delighted to welcome local author David Hargreaves, to discuss and read from his debut novel, Under The Table.
David will be joined by Robert Cottrell, editor of The Browser, and will be signing copies of the book after the talk. Refreshments will be provided.
About The Book:
... Former teacher Dominic da Silva discovers in his late fifties that he has terminal cancer. The diagnosis prompts him to return to the diaries he kept from his boarding school years into his early thirties working as a teacher. These notebooks conjure lost tableaux of Britain in the 1960s, 70s and early 80s: with the emotional repression and genteel rural poverty of his youth, through to upbeat accounts of later joyful excess and profound friendships.
After grappling with confusion about his sexuality and his rather grim schoolyears, by the age of thirty, he has carved out a promising career and is married to a wealthy young lawyer. But he will soon discover how supremely ill-suited he is to everything he wants most. Dominic’s diaries chart his lurching journey towards self-recognition – from an apparently perfect life, to arrest and ignominy, and eventually to a hostel for the homeless.
Poignant, clever, and often funny, Under the Table is a powerful account of a life in many ways thwarted, as well as a homage to friendships of all kinds – and a recognition of the toughness upon which they depend.
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Waterstones Islington invites you to join us in welcoming Graeme Macrae Burnet, on the release of his new novel, The Accident on the A35.
Graeme, as well as being shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize with 2016's astounding novel His Bloody Project, is a former Waterstones employee. We're delighted to have him here to celebrate the paperback release of his newest novel, the second to feature Inspector Georges Gorski.
Graeme will be signing copies of his books after the event. ...Refreshments will be provided.
About the Book:
There does not appear to be anything remarkable about the fatal car crash on the A35. But one question dogs Inspector Georges Gorski: where has the victim, an outwardly austere lawyer, been on the night of his death? The troubled Gorski finds himself drawn into a mystery that takes him behind the respectable veneer of the sleepy French backwater of Saint-Louis. Graeme Macrae Burnet returns with a literary mystery that will beguile fans of His Bloody Project and The Disappearance of Adele Bedeau. Darkly humorous, subtle and sophisticated, The Accident on the A35 burrows deep into the psyches of its characters and explores the forgotten corners of small-town life.
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Waterstones Islington is delighted to announce the return of our event series “The Book That Inspired Me”, where writers talk about the books that are most important to them. Join us in welcoming acclaimed novelist Claire Fuller, to Waterstones Islington to speak about her newest book, the novelSwimming Lessons, and one of the books that has inspired her work, Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
Claire Fuller is the author of the novel Our Endless Numbered D...ays; her latest, Swimming Lessons has been described as a “deeply moving read” by Oprah. Gil Coleman looked down from the window and saw his dead wife standing on the pavement below. Gil's wife, Ingrid has been missing, presumed drowned, for twelve years. A possible sighting brings their children, Nan and Flora, home. Together they begin to confront the mystery of their mother. Is Ingrid dead? Or did she leave? And do the letters hidden within Gil's books hold the answer to the truth behind his marriage, a truth hidden from everyone including his own children?
Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle isthe deliciously dark and funny story of Merricat, tomboy teenager, beloved sister - and possible lunatic. Living in the Blackwood family home with only her sister Constance and her Uncle Julian for company, Merricat just wants to preserve their delicate way of life. But ever since Constance was acquitted of murdering the rest of the family, the world isn't leaving the Blackwoods alone.
Claire will be joined by Rachel Malik, author of Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves. One day in 1940 Rene Hargreaves walks out on her family and the city to take a position as a Land Girl at the remote Starlight farm. There she will live with and help lonely farmer Elsie Boston.At first Elsie and Rene are unsure of one another - strangers from different worlds. But over time they each come to depend on the other.
Both Claire and Rachel will be available to sign their books after the talk. Refreshments will be provided.
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Free this Thursday? This is one of the most inventive, original books we've read in a long time. Think Eimear McBride, Joanna Walsh or Ben Marcus. It's also very funny. David Hayden, by some coincidence, also opened Waterstones Islington, way back when, so this is going to be something of a homecoming too. In conversation with David Collard, the author will also be reading from this most magnificent of books. Please try to make it if you can- if you're looking for something new to fall in love with, we can think of nothing more exciting. There will also be wine.
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Hey there, booklovers.
Here are all of the events that we've got at the store for the next month! We've got talks with authors such as David Hayden and Guy Ware, more Halloween half-term activities than you can wave a wand at, and an extra-special Midnight Launch for "La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman!
Check it out and see if there's anything that catches your fancy, and sign up to our events mailing list here: http://waterstones.us13.list-manage.com/s ubscribe…

This is tonight folks. Still some tickets left. Give us a call or just turn up. A rare opportunity to meet a wonderful talent.
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Hello everyone, this is going to be a wonderful evening. Levy is an amazing writer and this is a rare opportunity to meet her and hear about her superb new novel, Hot Milk.

We are delighted to announce that Deborah Levy will be joining us in store to mark the release of her latest novel, Hot Milk, in paperback. An exploration of 'the strange and monstrous nature of motherhood,' Hot Milk was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize last year.
Deborah Levy is the author of five previous novels: Beautiful Mutants (1986); Swallowing Geography (1993); The Unloved (1994); Billy & Girl (1996) and Swimming Home (2011), which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker prize. Deborah is also the author of the short story collection Black Vodka, and has written poetry, and theatre, having worked closely with the RSC and Radio 4.
Please join us for what should be a fantastic evening.

Don't miss out on our fabulous YA event on 30th May. Laura Dockrill, author of Lorali, and Maria Turtschaninoff, author of Maresi and Naondel, will be in store talking all things feminism in YA. Tickets are only £3. Limited availability so grab them while you can.
https://www.waterstones.com/…/laura-doc kri…/london-islington

On the 25th May we welcome Samanta Schweblin, author of Fever Dream, which as well as just having been shortlisted for the Booker International Prize, is one of our favourite books of this year. Samantha will be in conversation with Mariana Enriquez who's Things We Lost in the Fire is another example of how Argentinian literature is currently the hottest.
This is a rare opportunity to meet these two wonderful writers and promises to be a great evening.
This event will be he...ld in association with English PEN, Oneworld and Granta.
Tickets and further details below.
https://www.waterstones.com/…/an-evenin g-w…/london-islington
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On Monday 22nd of May we will be hosting Shashi Tharoor in conversation with Ben Judah. Shashi Tharoor's book, 'Inglorious Empire' is a reassessment of British Imperialism. Shashi will be in conversation with Ben Judah, whose 'This Is London' was one of our bestseller's last year. The evening promises to be a passionate and intelligent discussion of empire and Britain's position in the past and present. Further details and tickets via the link.
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Hello Booklovers.
We're enormously excited about our May events programme. Some highlights here for you now.
On Thursday 11th May we welcome Mike McCormack to the shop. His last book, Solar Bones, which won the Goldsmith's Prize, was one of our favourite books of last year. Written in one sentence, it tells of a life in one day; we promise it is a truly amazing piece of work. If you haven't read this book yet and want to know what the fuss is, come and join us. If you've al...ready read it, you'll know, and won't want to miss out. Details below.
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