Videos

We could not be happier that The Essex Serpent, Sarah Perry's Gothic masterpiece of friendship, science and religion, is Waterstones Book of the Year 2016. Here, watch Sarah discuss the book and answer some of the questions she gets most frequently from readers.

You can buy the book yourself - and get lost in the mysterious Essex marshes - here.

Watch Mary Gaitskill read from her highly-acclaimed new novel, The Mare.

We love this video, recorded in 1993, of Eileen Myles reading 'An American Poem', which is included in I Must Be Living Twice