Fiona Sharp

If this isn’t my book of the year then I have some truly brilliant reads ahead in 2025! @TonyKent_Writes @TransworldBooks @CottonFinn #FrederickForsyth #RevengeOfOdessa everyone needs this preordered ASAP don’t be last to read it.

I'm so thrilled that The Museum of Lost Umbrellas has been included in the #PrimarySchoolBookClub July 2025 vote this evening and I’d love to have your VOTE for my book! ☂️🧙🏻‍♀️🐾🦜✨Head to @PrimarySchoolBC and vote for it using the pinned tweet! @FaberChildrens @AliSewan

Hello all, popping up to show you the proof of Watching You, and to ask lovers of crime fiction and thrillers to pre-order as it makes the world of difference to the success of a book! Thanks you lovely lot xx

We are so delighted to announce that THE ARTIST by Lucy Steeds has WON the @Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2025🎉 Thank you to all the booksellers for championing this incredible book, and congratulations again to the shortlistees🥳 #WDFP

Just announced! The Artist by Lucy Steeds wins the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2025. An intoxicating tale of art, love and secrets set across a sun-drenched Provençal summer in 1920; find our gorgeous new edition with ribbon marker here: waterstones.com/book/the-artis… #WDFP

And finally, reading from his multi-stranded novel, Saraswati, @GurnaikJohal takes the stage. #WDFP waterstones.com/category/cultu…

Taking the stage, @niamhsquared reads from her brilliant debut of modern sainthood and grief, Ordinary Saints. #WDFP waterstones.com/category/cultu…

Next on stage is Lisa Ridzén, reading from When The Cranes Fly South, translated by Alice Menzies. #WDFP waterstones.com/category/cultu…

Transporting us to a decadent summer, @willhunterr reads from Sunstruck. #WDFP waterstones.com/category/cultu…

Multi generational epic, Confessions, is the next novel we hear from as @catherineairey reads an excerpt. #WDFP waterstones.com/category/cultu…

Lucy Steeds takes us all back to 1920’s Provence as she reads from her debut The Artist. #WDFP waterstones.com/category/cultu…

‘When I was asked to make a speech about handing on the baton, I realised I wasn’t quite ready to hand on the baton’. Last year’s victor, Ferdia Lennon, looks back on his tenure as Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize winner #WDFP

ENERGY STANDING CHARGE NEWS. I'm concerned that today @Ofgem has put out plans that could potentially weaken the 'low or no standing charge Price Cap alternative' that was due to come this winter. The proposal, which originally came from our MSE submission, was if you couldn't…

Not since the Avengers assembled has so much power been in one room. Our Debut Fiction Prize shortlistees are here and the evening is about to get under way. Find their books here: waterstones.com/category/cultu… #WDFP

Looking forward to the @Waterstones Debut Prize tonight. Good luck to all the authors and of course a special shout out to our own wonderful Lisa Ridzen for #WhentheCranesFlySouth

Tonight is the night! We're now just hours away from announcing the winner of the 2025 Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize... Who are you rooting for? 🥳 #WDFP

Book post. Thank you ⁦@HamishH1931⁩ #KiranDesai #TheLonelinessOfSoniaAndSunny

Thank you ⁦@PenguinHuddleUK⁩ #JenniferNiven #WhenWeWereMonsters

This career of mine has been a crazy rollercoaster and I am full of love for everyone who has been, and continues to be, a part of it with me. How incredible to discover 50 million of my books are out there in the world… Wow. Thank you. XX

Provocative, funny and mercilessly observant, @niamhsquared's #WDFP shortlisted ORDINARY SAINTS mines the complexities of familial love and grief through richly layered characters who wrestle with questions of faith and belonging in present-day Ireland: waterstones.com/author/niamh-n…

An ageing man fights to keep the power over his own life and mend his relationship with his son before it's too late in WHEN THE CRANES FLY SOUTH, Lisa Ridzen's profoundly moving and beautifully bittersweet #WDFP shortlisted novel: waterstones.com/author/lisa-ri…