Kathleen Jamie, Chris Stewart and Tove Jansson (via her family estate) are to donate thousands of copies of their best loved titles to the Waterstones Syrian migrant crisis appeal. The books will appear on dedicated ‘Buy Books for Syria’ tables available at Waterstones’ branches throughout the UK from Thursday 1st October. It was Sort of Books co-director Mark Ellingham who devised this fundraising idea, so we are delighted to be playing a part in making it a reality, together with three of our bestselling (and generous) authors. The ambition is for Waterstones to sell a million pounds’ worth of books – every penny of which will go to Oxfam’s work with Syrian refugees and displaced people in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, and at arrival points in Italy, Greece and Macedonia. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/28/authors-waterstones-buy-books-syria-refugee-crisis