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From neurosurgeons to the Durrells of Corfu... [View email online]( [Waterstones Weekly]( [FICTION]( | [NON-FICTION]( | [CHILDREN'S]( | [SIGNED](  Dear Reader, It’s been a lively week over on the Waterstones Blog – neurosurgeon Henry Marsh (author of the runaway hit [Do No Harm]( and the new, and already bestselling, follow-up [Admissions]( talks candidly about the future of the NHS and Michael Haag, the author behind the timely [The Durrells of Corfu]( takes us back to the moment when a serendipitous bookshop visit led him to opening the door to Britain’s most-loved ex-pat family. We couldn’t go however without a swift nod to last week’s Nibbies, otherwise known as The British Book Awards, where a certain bookseller – modesty prevents - bagged Book Retailer of the Year and our own Waterstones Book of the Year, Sarah Perry’s resplendent [The Essex Serpent]( walked away with the Nibbies’ own Overall Book of the Year. [The Girl of Ink & Stars]( our reigning Children’s Book of the Year, similarly clinched Children’s Book of the Year. Brilliant stuff. New and Reviewed [Admissions]( [Admissions]( HENRY MARSH ‘I didn’t want this book to end,’ reported The Daily Telegraph. ‘His sentences… feel like the works of the finest craftsmanship.’ Undoubtedly one of our standout reads of the year so far, Henry Marsh's sequel to his bestselling requiem to neurosurgery [Do No Harm]( is as unflinching, brave and lyrical as its predecessor. [The Good Immigrant]( [The Good Immigrant]( Nikesh Shukla ‘If I could,’ offered The Independent, ‘I’d push a copy of this through the letter box of every front door in Britain.’ So shines this superb collection documenting those being forced to prove their worth, of not being labelled the ‘bad immigrant’. [Option B]( B]( Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant ‘I have tried to think of anyone who would not find [Option B]( invaluable at some point in their life, and I can’t.’ The Guardian was won over by this essential guide to overcoming real and often overwhelming diversity, delivered by the bestselling authors behind [Lean In]( and [Originals](. [The Pigeon Tunnel]( [The Pigeon Tunnel]( John le Carré ‘Grippingly written, it is revealing in ways the author never intended it to be,’ shrewdly observed The Daily Telegraph of The Master’s much-awaited memoir. The result is magnetic, the information a dossier of a life extraordinarily lived. [Buy the book]( [Buy the book]( [Buy the book]( [Dunstan]( Conn Iggulden ‘Iggulden has created an intriguingly complex saint… through his eyes we watch the story of the making of England,’ noted The Times. ‘Superbly plotted and paced… an absolutely cracking story.’ [The End We Start from]( [The End We Start From]( MEGAN HUNTER “Here's the thing,” commented The Shock of the Fall’s Nathan Filer. “It's perfect.” A harrowing, beautifully spare tale of a new mother, bewildered by the cruel dystopia of a future United Kingdom. [Commonwealth]( ANN PATCHETT ‘This novel convinces me she's wiping the floor with her heftier competitors.’ So says The Daily Telegraph’s of Patchett’s latest is spot-on, a dazzling chronicle of two entwined American baby-boomer families. [See What I Have Done]( [See What I Have Done]( SARAH SCHMIDT ‘Every single sentence is perfect,’ Emma Flint wrote of this brooding, mesmeric account of America’s most notorious rural family massacre. [Buy the book]( [Buy the book]( [Buy the book]( [Attend the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlist Readings Event and enter our Whistles competition]( Signed and Special Editions [Anything is Possible]( [Anything is Possible]( Elizabeth Strout "A shimmering masterpiece of a book." - The Observer [The Boy on the Bridge]( Boy on the Bridge]( M. R. Carey A return to the world of Girl With All The Gifts "Carey writes with compassion and fire - strange and surprising and humane.' - Lauren Beukes [Release]( Patrick Ness Ness’s great achievement in Release is to acknowledge the weight, worth and agony of first love, and to show the richer blooming of a second.' - The Guardian [Buy the book]( [Buy the book]( [Buy the book]( [Bookseller Review] [Sapiens]( Yuval Noah Harari ‘There are good books and there are great books and then there are books which have the power to make you see the world in a completely different way. This is one of those books.’ - Penny Bullock, Waterstones Lancaster on Harari's bestselling predecessor to [Homo Deus]( [American Gods]( Gods]( Neil Gaiman This novel is something special, massive in scope... the magic of this novel pours from its pages and Gaiman’s creativity does not obscure some of his comments on the struggles in American culture.' - Emma Prince of Waterstones Southampton West Quay on Neil Gaiman’s most totemic novel [Thirteen Reasons Why]( Reasons Why]( Jay Asher Endlessly thought provoking… [while] she admits that while her reasons alone aren't enough to make her want to kill herself, the 'snowball effect' of experiences can really damage a person.” Becci Cooper, Waterstones Worcester City Arcade on the book on the lips of every teenager this month [Buy the book]( [Buy the book]( [Buy the book]( [On the Waterstones Blog]( [Oh Calcutta! Abir Mukherjee Introduces the City]( [Oh Calcutta! Abir Mukherjee Introduces the City That Inspired A Rising Man]( ‘Calcutta has always been a strange sort of place, a place of contrasts where the best and worst of [...read more]( [Larry and Gerry and Me: Michael Haag on Finding the Durrells]( [Larry and Gerry and Me: Michael Haag on Finding the Durrells]( 'I have increasingly realised the importance of those Corfu years, an idyll yes, but arrived at by [...read more]( Events and Competitions [COMPETITION: Pre-order to win SOngs from the Novel Greatest Hits, Kathryn Williams' unique musical collaboration with author Laura Barnett. Enter Here]( [SHORTLIST EVENT: Jim Naughtie is joined by the Man Booker International shortlist authors and translators for a very special evening of readings and discussion. 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