Waterstones Cardiff

We are beyond excited to be the first stop on A.F. Steadman's SKANDAR Tour, to celebrate the arrival of Skandar and the Skeleton Curse 💚💀⚡️

Meet award-winning author and be amongst the first to buy a signed and dedicated copy of the highly anticipated fourth book in the series!

The Skandar series is an international phenomenon: an epic story about bloodthirsty unicorns, sky battles and elemental magic. It is a Number One bestselling series, translated into 46 languages worldwide and with a film with Sony Pictures in the works. The first book, Skandar and the Unicorn Thief, was crowned Waterstone’s Children’s Book of the Year in 2022 and has been described as “the most highly anticipated book since Harry Potter”.

Book a ticket in advance to secure a place in the queue and a copy of Skandar and the Skeleton Curse (RRP £14.99) to collect on the day. Parents accompanying their children do not require a ticket (one accompanying adult per child with ticket). Copies of the Skandar books will also be available to purchase from the bookshop on the day, so feel free to simply pop along to purchase a book and to meet A.F. Steadman.

Please be in touch on [email protected] if you have any questions or requirements around accessibility.

More information about this event can be found via the link in our bio 🎟

🌊3 DAYS TO GO🌊 until The Odyssey, Stephen Fry’s final book in his Greek myths series, is published! In classic Fry style, The Odyssey is a hugely entertaining retelling of Odysseus’ turbulent decade-long voyage home to Ithaca and his wife Penelope.

Available to preorder in store now!

Just 2 Days to go until Intermezzo hits our shelves! Preorder your copy in store now! Any preorders or purchases made within the first week of publication will also have the opportunity to enter our giveaway and win an exclusive Intermezzo t shirt, tote and other bits and pieces ♟️

♟️INTERMEZZO GIVEAWAY♟️ To celebrate the release of Sally Rooney’s latest book, we’re giving away an exclusive Intermezzo tote bag filled with goodies to the first few people who buy a copy of Intermezzo in store! ONE lucky person could also win an exclusive Intermezzo t-shirt alongside the tote bag and other bits in our randomised draw. To have your name entered into the draw you must either preorder or buy a copy of Intermezzo IN STORE (CARDIFF) during the first week of publication.

Autumn is calling but the summers not quite over here at Cafe W.
Last chance to grab your favourite iced teas and coffees before we introduce something a bit more spiced.. 🎃🍁

Free Cinnamon Buns! 😱

When you purchase a copy of The Cinnamon Bun Book Store.

Come and grab yours today ☕️

📚What are our booksellers reading this week?📚

Slide 1: North Woods by Daniel Mason

Slide 2: Medea by Rosie Hewlett

Slide 3: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenburg

Slide 4: Monsters: What Do We Do With Great Art By Bad People? By Claire Dederer

🔎🐈‍⬛OUT NOW🐈‍⬛🔎 Richard Osman’s start to a brand new series! We Solve Murders follows retired copper Steve Wheeler and his impulsive daughter-in-law Amy when a dead body, a bag of money, and a killer materialise on the remote island where Amy is working as a security officer. Can Amy and Steve stay one ate ahead of a deadly enemy?

ICYMI 👀 Calling all Crime-Thriller aficionados! We are delighted that two brilliant authors, Sarah Pearse and Chris Lloyd, will be joining us next week to discuss their fantastic new novels.

SARAH PEARSE is the author of The Sanatorium, a previous Waterstones Book of the Month. She will be discussing her brand new page-turning thriller, The Wilds, in which Detective Elin Warner investigates as a troubled twin disappears without trace from a Portuguese national park.

CHRIS LLOYD is the author of previous Waterstones Welsh Book of the Month, The Unwanted Dead. He will be talking about the next installment in the brilliant Occupation series, Banquet of Beggers: set in Paris 1940, survival means sacrifice. As hunger grows, tensions rise and a fierce rebellion brews, Detective Eddie Giral treads a dark path between doing whatever it takes to live with the enemy... and also with himself.

Tickets: £7 standard/£5 Waterstones Plus (including complimentary refreshments!) 🎟🍷 Follow the link in our bio to secure your place!

🔎 4 DAYS TO GO 🔎 Preorder your copy of Richard Osman’s start to a brand new series…We Solve Murders, coming out this Thursday, September 12th! Sure to be a big hitter, we recommend preordering your copy in store to guarantee that you’ll have it on the day!

📚NEW IN NON-FICTION📚
There’s a lot of big books publishing this autumn. Here’s a selection of a few of our new and bestselling non-fiction titles:
Want by Gillian Anderson
The Golden Road by William Dalrymple
Saints by Amy Jeffs
A Voyage Around the Queen by Craig Brown
Chernobyl Roulette by Serhii Plokhy
On Leadership by Tony Blair

🍁SEPTEMBER 🍁 Books of the month have landed in store! From a fantastical middle grade adventure to a sapphic coming of age romantasy to a propulsive CIA thriller. As with every month, each book of the month purchase entitles you to a free drink in our very own Cafe W!☕️

Thank you Jon Gower for popping in this morning to sign your latest book, The Turning Tide: A Biography of the Irish Sea.

Grab a signed copy of our Welsh book of the month in store.

Another brilliant event coming this September 📢 Join us as we welcome Gwyneth Lewis, the inaugural National Poet of Wales and one of the UK's leading poets, to the store to discuss her haunting, profoundly moving memoir .

Gwyneth Lewis kept the story of her painful upbringing to herself – until now. Finally, in her memoir 'Nightshade Mother', she writes of the pain she suffered at the hands of her controlling, coercive mother. It is a book that Gwyneth has been preparing to write all her life, in diaries which she’s kept since childhood. Profoundly moving, questing and loving in its approach, 'Nightshade Mother' is a book for anyone who has suffered at the hands of a coercive parent.

Gwyneth will be in conversation with fellow poet clare e. potter.

Tickets: £7 standard/£5 Waterstones Plus (your ticket includes a complimentary refreshment!) 🎟 For more information and how to book your place, visit the link in our bio!

What have our booksellers been reading lately? 📚

Slide 1: There Are Rivers In The Sky by Zelig Shafak

Slide 2: Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

Slide 3: Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly

Slide 4: Authority by Jeff Vandermeer

Slide 5: Living Things by Munir Hachemi

Slide 6: A Curse For True Love by Stephanie Garber

Slide 7: The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White

Upcoming event 📢🌊 If you like Greek myth and retellings, cold water swimming, beautiful Mediterranean islands and volcanoes, then this is the event for you!

We are delighted to be welcoming debut author Laura Coffey to the store, who will be discussing her brilliant memoir 'Enchanted Islands': a personal Odyssey that combines travel and nature writing with a twist of mythology. This book has been highly recommended by Stephen Fry, who described it as 'beautiful and captivating', so join us for an evening dreaming of being whisked away to the sunny Med!

Tickets: £7 standard/£5 Waterstones Plus 🎟 Secure your place via the link in our bio!

Is the weather making you feel in a ~La la lalah~ mood? 🍂
Make the most of it! Come to Café W and enjoy a cosy, delicious soup with toasted bread while reading your favourite autumn book 📕🍁

is flying out of our shop this week, which makes us even more excited for our event with author Claire Fayers on Friday 16th August!

Join us for a Ghostly Storytime, Q&A and Book Signing with Claire Fayers.This event will run for approximately 45 minutes and whilst the book is guided for readers of ages 9-12 years old, this event is suitable and open to all ages!

This event is FREE. To secure your place, visit the link in our bio!

With publishing today, we are absolutely delighted to announce that Abi Daré will be joining us for an event in store thie September! 'And So I Roar' is the sequel to the much-loved 'The Girl With The Louding Voice'. Abi will be in conversation with Carole Hailey. 

Equally tender and powerful, Daré's evocative follow up to her acclaimed debut 'The Girl With the Louding Voice' finds Adunni settling into her new life and school in Lagos, until dramatic news forces her to return to her home village.

Tickets: £7 standard/£5 Waterstones Plus 🎟
Secure your place via the link in our bio!

Join us every Wednesday at 3pm for our FREE children’s boardgame session in our cafe!

Recommended ages 4-12

Only one more day until Welsh Giants, Ghosts & Goblins is published!! These seventeen adventures, fairy tales and ghost stories from across Wales are retold and reimagined by in this beautiful hardback.

Welsh Fairy Tales, Myths & Legends quickly became one of our favourites here, and we can’t wait to read more!

Happy 25th Birthday Gruffalo! 🥳
Come join us for storytime at 11am today in the children’s section to celebrate one of our favourite friends. Our Gruffalo activity sheets will be available all weekend.

We look forward to seeing you!

Calling all music fans 📢 We are so looking forward to hosting Neil Collins to celebrate the release of his new book : How Wales Conquered The '90s Charts! Neil will be joined by special guests Huw Williams of The Pooh Sticks, Paul Jones of Catatonia, and Patricia Morgan of Datblygu!

If the story of Wales in the 1990s was a movie plot, it would seem far-fetched. Thankfully, it was all true. Featuring fresh analysis and new interviews, International Velvet charts how ‘Cool Cymru’ won over the UK masses and how this pivotal decade continues to inspire the still-vibrant Welsh music scene into the 21st century and beyond.

Tickets are available via the link in our bio 🎟

Just one more day to go before the winner of this year’s Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize is announced! The ceremony will take place tomorrow at 8pm. Good luck to all of the authors in consideration!

If you are interested in reading any of the shortlisted books, we have copies of each available in store.

Celebrate a summer of love at Waterstones Cardiff! 💕
We are so pleased to welcome Lex Croucher to store for their event celebrating their wonderful YA novels on 23rd July.
The House of YA also lands in Cardiff on 25th July for a fabulous evening with authors Bea Fitzgerald, Molly X Chang, A.B Poranek, chaired by Kissing Booth author Beth Reekles.

Both events are £3 and start at 6:30.

See you there!