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Waterstones Fiction book of the Month for September is After The Party by Cressida Connolly
It is the summer of 1938 and Phyllis Forrester has returned to England after years abroad. Moving into her sister's grand country house, she soon finds herself entangled in a new world of idealistic beliefs and seemingly innocent friendships. Fevered talk of another war infiltrates their small, privileged circle, giving way to a thrilling solution: a great and charismatic leader, who w...ill restore England to its former glory. At a party hosted by her new friends, Phyllis lets down her guard for a single moment, with devastating consequences. Years later, Phyllis, alone and embittered, recounts the dramatic events which led to her imprisonment and changed the course of her life forever. An illuminating portrait of a dark period of modern history - a subset of fiction we do very well with (Amor Towles, Pat Barker etc.)
Contemporary overtones of populist, authorotarian leadership (*cough cough*)
“Brave, engrossing and unexpectedly moving” - Mail on Sunday
“A wonderful, tragicomic novel” - Times
“Uncanny and evocative.” - Sunday Times
“A virtuoso novel” – Telegraph Magazine 9780241327739 PB £8.99
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Waterstones Non- Fiction Book of the for September is Divided: Why We Are Living in an Age of Walls by Tim Marshall
For a generation the image of Ronald Reagan standing before the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin urging Mikhail Gorbachev to "Tear down this wall!" was the defining declaration of Western values. Freedom, democracy, and a respect of human rights were inextricably linked to the creation of a borderless world where humans could travel to live, work, and holiday without ...undue hindrance. That was in 1987. Exactly thirty years later a U.S. president was sworn in on the steps of the Capitol who had won the presidency by declaring his explicit intention to "Build the Wall" on the US-Mexico border.
How did we get Reagan to a Trump in a generation? Why, from Hungary to Mexico, Israel to Belfast, have walls gone up all over the world even as economies have globalized? Do walls work? What do they say about those who build them? Here to answer all these questions and more is Tim Marshall, the journalist and writer behind the global publishing sensation Prisoners of Geography and one of the most respected writers on international relations and geopolitics. Wide-ranging but concise, thoughtful, well-researched but always accessible, this is Tim at his best and taking on one of the most urgent questions of the 21st Century: Why are we living in an age of walls? Tim Marshall's Prisoners of Geography sold almost half a million copies in the UK alone. This is a great opportunity to revisit an author loved and respected by Waterstones customers.
The reassertion of national borders and the militarization of boundaries between and within nations is one of the most urgent questions of our time and Tim Marshall, trusted by readers for his geopolitical analysis, is perfectly placed to communicate the nuances of this new, divided world to readers of all types.
Covering situations as varied as the US-Mexico border, the Isreali West Bank Barrier, and the Great Wall of China, Divided covers a diverse range of countries and historical moments whilst remaining pithy, accessible, and consistent in his judgements. 9781783963973 PB £9.99 #Divided #TimMarshall # #nonfiction #waterstones #amreading #waterstonestruro #bookstoread
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Waterstones Thriller of the month for September is Our House by Louise Candlish
On a bright morning in the London suburbs, a family moves into the house they’ve just bought on Trinity Avenue. Nothing strange about that. Except it's your house. And you didn’t sell it. When Fi Lawson arrives home to find strangers moving into her house, she is plunged into terror and confusion. She and her husband Bram have owned their home on Trinity Avenue for years and have no intention of s...elling. How can this other family possibly think the house is theirs? And why has Bram disappeared when she needs him most? Like all the best psychological thrillers, Our House taps into a very plausible fear
“A masterfully plotted, compulsive page-turner.” - Guardian
“A superb thriller, devastating.” – Washington Post
“Wonderful. She inhaled me into her nightmarish world.” Fiona Barton 9781471168062 PB £8.99
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Waterstones Children’s Book of the Month for September is The Murderer's Ape Written and illustrated by Jakob Wegelius Translated from the Swedish by Peter Graves
Sally Jones is not only a loyal friend, she's an extraordinary individual. In overalls or in a maharaja's turban, this unique gorilla moves among humans without speaking but understanding everything. She and the Chief are devoted comrades who operate a cargo boat. A job they are offered pays big bucks, but the deal ...ends badly, and the Chief is falsely convicted of murder. For Sally Jones this is the start of a harrowing quest for survival and to clear the Chief's name. Powerful forces are working against her, and they will do anything to protect their secrets.
Book of the Year for: Observer, Sunday Times, Telegraph, BookTrust
A perfect recommend for children and adults alike.
'I don't know when I last read a book with such pleasure.' - Philip Pullman
'It's ingenious, it's moving, it's charming, it's beautiful, it's exciting, and most importantly the characters are people I feel I know like old friends' - Philip Pullman
'Extraordinary... a book you want to thrust into the hands of children and adults alike' - Observer 'Evocative... original and old-fashioned in its storytelling. A story to lose yourself in' - Sunday Times
'Charming... I loved Sally Jones's old-worldliess and Jakob Wegelius's black-and-white illustrations' - The Times
'This may be the most charming book I've read all year' - New York Times Book Review
This international bestseller has won multiple international awards, including the prestigious White Raven Award which chooses books that are deserving worldwide attention because of their universal themes and/or exceptional and often innovative artistic and literary style and design. Jakob Wegelius is a Swedish writer and illustrator who lives and works in the small village of Moertfors. In Sweden, he was awarded the August Prize for Best Children's Book and the Nordic Council Children and Young People's Literature Prize for The Murderer's Ape, which is also an International Youth Library White Raven selection. 9781782691754 PB £7.99
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Come along to Waterstones Truro tomorrow at 11am. Chris Higgins will be signing copies of her new books, Trouble on the Farm and A Boy Called Ocean. A great opportunity to meet an award winning author.

We’re thrilled that Patrick Gale will be joining us at Waterstones Truro on Tues 28th August 7pm. Patrick will be in conversation with Cathy Rentzenbrink discussing his new book #takenothingwithyou Tckts £3 in store or online. Come along for what promises to be a not to be missed evening with two of our favourite authors.

This young customer seems to like us.
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5.30pm this Thursday.

Come down to Truro this evening for an evening shop in the bookshop on the first of #trurosummernights as we stay open until 8pm! #ourgreatlittlecity

Come along to Waterstones Truro tomorrow (Wednesday)at 2pm, Lisa Woollett and Sarah McCartney will be talking about Treasures From The Sea and sharing some of their finds. All welcome

Waterstones Fiction book of the Month for August is Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler
One warm summer’s day at the beach, forty-year-old Cordelia Grinstead, dressed only in a swimsuit and beach robe, walks away from her family and just keeps on going. After hitching a ride with a stranger to a new town where she knows no one, she reinvents herself as a single woman with no ties and begins living a new life altogether. But how long can she keep this up before her real life finds h...er? Anne Tyler has had an incredible career so far. Way back in 1994 she was nominated as 'the greatest novelist writing in English"; has since won the Pulitzer and been shortlisted for both the Women's and Booker Prizes and has sold over a million copies of her books.
"Every scene breathes with intimacy. Lifelikeness almost lifts the characters off the page…scintillating with joie de vivre" (Sunday Times)
"Anne Tyler is a writer of immaculate delicacy" (Observer) 9780099479413 PB £8.99 #LadderofYears #AnneTyler #waterstones #ficton #amreading #waterstonestruro #bookstoread
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Waterstones Non- Fiction Book of the Month for August The Billion Dollar Spy by David E. Hoffman
Moscow. January, 1977. A man is filling up his car in a petrol station when a stranger walks by and drops a note into his car. The man was the CIA's Moscow station chief; the stranger with the note was Adolf Tolkachev, a senior electronics engineer working in military aviation. From this most unlikely of beginnings, Tolkachev became one of the most valuable CIA assets in the Sovie...t Union, single-handedly providing technical information that transformed American perceptions of Soviet military might at a crucial stage in the Cold War. Tolkchaev's value to the CIA was immense. CIA chief Richard Helms said that the likelihood of placing a spy that deep within the Soviet military system was “as improbable as placing spies in Mars”. The agency tried to keep his intelligence coming with the promise of enormous sums of money--the titular billion dollar - but it was not money he was after. Tolkchaev was inspired by moral revulsion at a regime that had violently persecuted his wife's family and had terrorized millions of Soviet citizens. He worked for free, but in the end the immense risks he took for his principles resulted in his demise.
Tolkachev was eventually betrayed by American CIA employees secretly working for the KGB. In September 1986 he was arrested by the KGB and executed. The Billion Dollar Spy is the hair-raising true story of Tolkchaev's dangerous work for the CIA and against the KGB extracted from the archives by award-winning investigative journalist David Hoffman. It is also a brilliant depiction of late-Soviet society, Reagan-era America, and spycraft in the final stages of the Cold War. It shines an unflattering light on some of the forgotten villains of American intelligence; men like Aldrich Ames, Edward Lee Howard, and Robert Hansson, whose espionage against their own country - often inspired by the pettiest of motives - led to Tolkchaev's arrest and execution. The Billion Dollar Spy Reads like a Le Carré thriller but was drawn from never-before-seen documents taken from recently opened archives. A perfect August beach read. Hoffman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post journalist, who specializes in reporting and writing about nuclear security, Russia, and the legacy of the Cold War. He is the perfect person to write this incredible story. Received a rapturous write-up from Ben MacIntyre in The Times: ‘an astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary feel as the spy war between East and West heats up again to Cold War levels. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to know how the spy mind works.’
9781785783524 PB £9.99
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Waterstones Thriller of the month for August is Sunburn by Laura Lippman
Meet Polly, which may or may not be her real name, this year's most dangerous leading lady... They meet by chance in a local bar in a small town in Delaware. Polly is heading west. Adam says he's also passing through. Yet she stays and so does he - drawn to this mysterious redhead who unnerves and excites him. Over the course of one hot summer, they abandon themselves to a steamy affair. But each holds b...ack something from the other - dangerous, even lethal, secrets . . . A modern take on the classic Noir genre, chock full of snark and wit, crosses and counter crosses and a protagonist to rival any of Chandler's femme fatales.
"A brilliant novelist, an unflinching chronicler of life in America right now, and Sunburn is her dark, gleaming noir gem. Read it." (Gillian Flynn)
"Note-perfect noir . . . not to be missed." (Megan Abbott) "Full of just-one-more chapter, stay-up-late suspense, but packed too with nuance, subtlety, observation and humanity." (Lee Child)
9780571335671 PB £8.99 #Sunburn #LauraLippman #waterstones #ficton #amreading #waterstonestruro #bookstoread #crimebooks #thriller #crimefiction
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Waterstones Children’s Book of the Month for August is Secrets of a Sun King by Emma Caroll
London, 1922. A discovery from ancient Egypt... A cursed package... The untold story of a young pharaoh... When Lilian Kaye finds a parcel on her grandad's doorstep, she is shocked to see who sent it: a famous Egyptologist, found dead that very morning, according to every newspaper in England! The mysterious package holds the key to a story about a king whose tomb archaeologists are de...sperately hunting for. Lil and her friends must embark on an incredible journey - to return the package to its resting place, to protect those they love, and to break the deadly pharaoh's curse... A hidden Egyptian tomb, a race against the clock, the mystery of a lifetime. Join Lilian, Tulip and Oz as they journey to break a deadly pharaoh's curse, meeting friends and foe along the way... Praise for Emma Carroll: ‘An adventure of old-fashioned charm’ Sunday Times 'Carroll sews together accessible history with a cracking plot and a character to love’ Sunday Times ‘Carroll expertly stirs up historical fact and thrilling fiction into a novel with characters to love and hate, but never tire of.' The Times ‘Absorbing, sensitive and genuinely magical in feel’ Independent ‘Always original' Sunday Express 'Compelling' Metro ‘Engaging and entertaining’ Independent on Sunday 'Tremendous fun' Financial Times
9780571328499 PB £6.99 #SunKing #EmmaCaroll #waterstones #childrensficton #amreading #waterstonestruro #bookstoread #childrensbooks
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Visited store today the lady that helped me find the books I was after was so helpful and the man even went and got one out of the window display and price matched for me with online price will be back Thanks very much

This is a great place huge selection of books and very helpful staff

The staff were friendly and helpful and the displays amazing!

The best bookshop, I love this place. The staff are only too pleased to help. If you are visiting Truro its a shop you should not miss.

So many books so many different points of view .Fabulous place.

My daughter won a book token for a story she wrote and had so much pleasure choosing books as her prize. We then finished a very enjoyable experience with a lovely lunch up stairs in Costa Coffee

Great way to spend an hour or two, coffee and a good book.

Fantastic range, especially childrens books and toys. Cafe is lovely - wonderful food and hot drinks, and exceptionally friendly service.

A fantastic place to browse and the staff are really helpful.