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10/10/2026

Happy Bookshop Day!

Visit us in the shop today to collect double Plus card stamps on your qualifying purchases, and pick up this year's Bookshop Day tote!
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09/10/2026

Say hello to the latest addition to our literary themed puzzles - Little Women!

30/09/2026

Deluxe first edition with full colour illustrations & silver-gilded edges.

Welcome to Threshing Day, the brutal, high-stakes trial where would-be riders at Basgiath War College fight to earn the bond of a dragon or die trying. Amid ruthless competition and dragon fire, these thirteen cadets must survive a battlefield where desperate rivals will do anything to gain an advantage and dragons decide one’s ultimate fate—and where a single choice can forge a rider…or destroy them.

10/09/2026

Gruffalo Granny is here!

Julia Donaldson makes a welcome return to the world of The Gruffalo.

The brand new Gruffalo picture book from Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler

The Gruffalo said to his daughter one day,

“Your Gruffalo Granny is coming to stay.”

Return to the deep dark wood with the first new Gruffalo story in over 20 years, and meet Gruffalo Granny as she visits the Gruffalo family. This fresh and exciting new Gruffalo adventure features the return of much-loved characters and is destined to become a classic.

Discover Gruffalo Granny in the shop now!

09/09/2026

Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2026. Signed Edition in stock.

The year is 1981. Tehran is in violent turmoil in the wake of the Iranian Revolution. The Soviets are planning to overthrow the Ayatollah's fledgling Islamist regime. If they do so, one response from America - unknown to the public - would be to use nuclear weapons. Redwood is the story of how at the height of the Cold War, one mysterious double agent, whose intelligence reached the highest levels of British and American governments, cracked open the KGB, revealed the Kremlin's secret plot and prevented Armageddon.

'Redwood' was the MI6 codename for this unsung, hitherto unknown hero of the Cold War, a highly-trained six-foot-four Russian intelligence officer who chose to expose the KGB’s deepest secrets, compelled to swap sides by a shaming secret of his own. Facing exposure, with both the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and his own KGB colleagues closing in, he demanded that MI6 try to smuggle him out of Iran in a high-stakes escape plan.

This is the gripping tale of one man's courage, and its extraordinary unintended consequences that still shape our world today. It's about a moving friendship between spies on opposite sides of the global conflict; about marriage, loyalty, betrayal and sexual dysfunction; and about how decisions made in secret can have huge, long-term ramifications.

Drawing on never-before-seen material from archives in multiple countries, and interviews with the participants including officers from MI6 and MI5, the KGB and CIA, Redwood combines the shadowy world of the Spy and the Traitor with the action of SAS: Rogue Heroes. It lifts the lid on an unknown and highly significant Cold War victory, on the machinations of history's Great Game, and on how espionage really works.

Without Redwood, our world would be very different - and might not exist at all.

08/09/2026

The author of the celebrated Storyland retells the legend of King Arthur with fresh energy, pace and research, from Merlin's conception to the abduction of Guinevere and the ambitious quest for empire.

From Sunday Times bestseller Amy Jeffs', Arthur: A New Life mines the deep, elusive seams of a story we think we all know: the legend of King Arthur.

But here he is anew: a larger-than-life warlord, a hero raised by fairies, a leader of the wild hunt, a monster-slayer, lying wounded under the ash cloud, longing to rise again.

Tracing an epic story from Merlin's conception and the building of the Round Table to the abduction of Guinevere and King Arthur's ambitious quest for Empire, this Arthur is as real as any other, brought back to life from the earliest sources.

Drawing out the dark and beautiful stories from the original medieval and early-modern texts, Amy guides the reader from citadels through forests, into volcanoes, caves and riverbanks and beyond, even as far as Hell and the Otherworld. Going further than merely the stories, she provides incisive commentary about each tale, emphasising the legends' crafted nature and their symbiotic relationship with the political cultures of contemporary medieval Europe.

Thirty original linocut illustrations map the inky Arthurian myth-scape, darkened by time, familiar as a dream.

02/09/2026

For the millions of home cooks who loved Ottolenghi SIMPLE, discover the pleasure of keeping things SIMPLE TOO.

It’s a noisy world out there, so stop, take a minute or two, listen to the soup bubble or the egg crackle... and let simple cooking be your solution.

Bring Yotam Ottolenghi’s innovation to your everyday with 135 new recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert.

Every dish has simplicity at its core and can be made in under 30 minutes, cooked in one pot, or prepped ahead. Whatever your barriers to cooking, this book brings you into the kitchen with a promise that even the simplest of meals can be full of flavour and joy.

29/08/2026

It's been a wet and stormy Bank Holiday weekend so far, Hereford, but here's something to cheer your spirits: Double Plus Stamps! 🚨

Come and build-up that Plus card and your TBR pile at the same time and get yourself ready for back to school, cosy season 🍁 and beyond (is it too early mention the C word?🎄)

27/08/2026

The third installment in Katherine Rundell's excellent Impossible Creatures series, The Neverfear, is also out from today. The story just gets better with each book that is released, and if you're new to the series, we have all three in the shop ready for you and your child to discover.
Our exclusive edition of The Neverfear also comes with beautiful sprayed edges.

Address

18-20 Commercial Street
Hereford
HR12DE

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5:30pm
Tuesday	9am - 5:30pm
Wednesday	9am - 5:30pm
Thursday	9am - 5:30pm
Friday	9am - 5:30pm
Saturday	9am - 5:30pm
Sunday	10:30am - 4:30pm

Telephone

01432 275100

Website

http://www.waterstones.com/

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