The cover of the special Waterstones edition in purple

The gorgeous gold foil embossed cloth hardback cover underneath the normal slipcover.

Gabriela Romero Lacruz's The River and the Star is now out!

The second part of the Warring Gods duology will enchant and then ruin your heart... Gods and mortals, power and betrayal, in a lush and gripping South American-inspired fantasy world.

Special #spredge editions while stocks last!

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Copies of the book on a bookshop table. The cover is bright red with a figure atop a hill, flame like gold whisps rising from the bottom, hills in the distance. The sprayed edges to the pages have a similar swirling whispy pattern interspersed with skulls

Out today from Bridget Collins (The Binding), The Naked Light mixes folk horror, historical fiction, forbidden love, and the trauma of war in a tale of a village watched over by a mysterious ancient carving.

Gorgeous #spredge editions here while stocks last!

#NewBooks
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A copy of the book on a table in a bookshop. The cover is red, with the top of a sword central. The cross guard takes the shape of a wolf head.

A view of the spredges, which show an illustrated scene of mountains, castle, and a wolf in the foreground

Billed as "Fourth Wing meets The Hunger Games", Dire Bound is a spicy, intense #romantasy where humans and direwolves forge unbreakable bonds and fight for survival at all costs.

Out now, with fancy exclusive #spredge editions while stocks last.

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When the sides of a #book are a picture - so gorgeous!

What’s a #spredge? The latest booming trend in book #design. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

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A copy of the book on a table, turned to show off the purple sprayed edge, decorated with black feathers

A copy of the book on a table, atop two others which are turned to show off the purple sprayed edge, decorated with black feathers

A magnificent mix of fantasy and murder mystery, The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson is out today, and we have these beautiful exclusive #signed editions with sprayed edges in stock!

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Hardcover sprayed edge featuring an orange kitty

The Cat That Saved The Library by Sosuke Natsukawa. Wasn't going to read any more Japanese cat books, but #spredge 😺

A copy of the book sits on another, which is turned to show the sprayed edge of the pages in yellow/orange. The cover art shows a large animal skull in the foreground with fungi and foliage, two figures stand further back, silhouetted against an orange sky and distant cityscape and pyramid hazy in the orange light.

The latest from Ava Reid is out today!

A Fable for the End of the World is an apocalyptic dystopian sapphic tale, billed as "The Last of Us meets The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes".

Very limited number of signed #spredge editions in stock!

#YA
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To Cage a God is officially out tomorrow, but we've received this beautiful edition slightly early!

Two sisters with gods caged within their bones, oppression, rebellion, romance and magic - it's the first in a new fantasy duology from @elizabethmay.bsky.social

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A copy of Grumpfort is tilted to reveal the design down the sprayed edge: an assortment of colourful monsters on a dark blue background.

And for those of you who like a fancy #SprayedEdge book, the exclusive Waterstones edition of #Grumpfort looks like THIS!

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We have pink-sprayed edge #spredge editions of #Piglet by Lottie Hazell
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Discover a deliciously dark and piercing story of food and secrets
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She's here and she's gorgeous! 😍

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Spredges effect: why books are becoming more beautiful Sprayed edges, intricate foils, gilded endpaper—the industry is seeing an increased demand for books with a decorative "aesthetic".

Anyone here enjoy a #spredge? My latest for the Bookseller