Waterstone’s Ballymena: This week’s Top 10 bestsellers, new releases and Book Club events

Waterstone’s Ballymena
Aug 30
2 min read

Book lovers in Ballymena have plenty to look forward to this week as Waterstone’s has unveiled its latest Top 10 bestselling titles, special offers and upcoming events.

The store’s bestsellers list is once again dominated by major names in fiction and non-fiction. At number one is Katabasis by R. F. Kuang, followed by The Hidden Girl by Lucinda Riley and The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins.

Other favourites include Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club and Colleen Hoover’s Verity, both continuing to capture readers’ imaginations.

The full Waterstone’s Ballymena Top 10 this week is:

Katabasis by R. F. Kuang
The Hidden Girl by Lucinda Riley
The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins
Entitled by Andrew Lownie
The Wedding People by Alison Espach

Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
Verity by Colleen Hoover
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
Supremacy by Parmy Olson
Challenger by Adam Higginbotham

New in store and special offers

• Shoppers can now enjoy the Guinness World Records 2026 at half price.

Packed with fascinating facts across sport, science, nature and the extraordinary, this year’s edition promises to delight curious readers of all ages.

• R. F. Kuang’s much-anticipated Katabasis has also hit shelves this week.

Best known for Babel and Yellowface, Kuang’s latest novel tells the story of two rival Cambridge academics who must unite on a perilous rescue mission to hell itself. Described as “dark and unputdownable”, it is already proving a hit with local readers.

Book Club returns

Waterstone’s Ballymena Book Club will meet on Thursday 4 September at 7pm, where members will be discussing The God of the Woods by Liz Moore.

A spokesperson said: “Everyone is welcome to come along for coffee, cake and lots of book chat!”

Storytime for children

Families can enjoy regular Storytime sessions every weekend – at 12 noon on Saturdays and 3pm on Sundays. On 6 and 7 September, the featured story will be The Dinosaur That Pooped A Zoo! by Tom Fletcher and Dougie Poynter.