TOP 10 | All the latest news from Waterstone’s Ballymena - Saturday 19 July 2025

Welcome to this week’s news, reviews, and ‘all-things-books’ latest from the team at Waterstone’s Ballymena!

This week’s Top 10 bestselling books…

1. Lottie Brooks vs the Ultra Mean Girls by Katie Kirby

2. The Sleepwalkers by Scarlett Thomas

3. The Tenant by Freida McFadden

4. You Are Here by David Nicholls

5. Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

6. Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty

7. The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley

8. The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden

9. The Diary Of A CEO by Steven Bartlett

10. To Die For by David Baldacci

This week’s kids Top 10 bestselling books…

1. Cozy Corner Colouring by Coco Wyo

2. Ms Rachel: 100 First Words by Ms Rachel

3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid No Brainer by Jeff Kinney

4. Sunrise On The Reaping by Suzanne Collins

5. Getting Away With Murder by Kathryn Foxfield

6. My Return To The Walter Boys by Ali Novak

7. The Worlds's Worst Superheroes by David Walliams

8. The Naturals by Jessica Lynn Barnes

9. Unicornia by The Cupcake Contest by Ana Punset

10. The Goldens by Lauren Wilson

Weekend kids storytime sessions…

We will have Saturday storytime on the 26th July at 12pm and we will be reading Peppa's New Baby Sister by Peppa Pig. Sunday storytime will be on the 27th July at 3pm. We will be reading Duck Delivers by Tom Tinn-Disbury.

Half price offers…

All change for our half price offer this week. Books entering the offer are:

• She Didn't See It Coming by Shari Lapena

The wife and mother of a seemingly perfect family disappears without a trace leaving behind a trail of suspicion and distrust in this page-turning slice of psychological crime from the bestselling author of The Couple Next Door and Not a Happy Family.

• La Belle Sauvage by Phillip Pullman

Our 2017 Book of the Year is both a matchless work of standalone fiction and an exciting new doorway into the world of His Dark Materials.

• Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell

Our reigning Waterstones Book of the Year begins a breathtakingly realised fantasy series from the genius storyteller behind Rooftoppers and The Explorer, in which an ordinary boy and a flying girl become entangled in an adventure with a host of magical creatures.

• Skandar And The Unicorn Thief by A.F. Steadman

Prepare to experience a magical world full of courageous heroes and warrior unicorns in the first instalment of Steadman's exhilarating series, as young Skandar takes to the skies to battle a deadly enemy.

New releases…

• A Neighbour's Guide to Murder by Louise Candlish

From the superstar of psychological thrillers and author of Our House comes another absorbing, stylish and impeccably plotted slice of crime fiction, as an age-gap friendship between two new neighbours - a retiree and a young woman - starts to acquire dark undertones.

• Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson

The unputdownable first adult thriller from the mega-selling author of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder finds the victim of a brutal attack, which has left her with seven days to live, set out to solve her own murder.

• A Case Of Life And Limb by Sally Smith

Gabriel Ward KC returns in another delightfully constructed legal mystery set at the turn of the twentieth century, as the receipt of a mummified hand triggers a campaign of terror directed against the Inner Temple.