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About Waterstones

Waterstones Booksellers Limited, trading as Waterstones, is a British book retailer based in London, United Kingdom, owned by the American investment group Elliott Investment Management. It operates 317 shops, mainly in the United Kingdom and other nearby countries. As of 2024 it employed over 3,600 staff in Britain and Europe. The average Waterstones branch sells a range of approximately 30,000 individual books, as well as stationery and other related products.

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Waterstones have actually decided to make it the thriller of the month.

from No Such Thing As Taming A Plane, 2023-06-01 at 00:00:25 · read transcript

Other times Waterstones came up

  1. If you'd like to get in contact with us to ask us about the book and anything that you've read in it, we can be found on Twitter. I'm on at Shriverland, Andy. At Andrew Hunter, Em. James. I can be found at Amazon.com if you search for the book of the year 2019. Or in Waterstones. Or at James Harkin. Chesensky. You can email podcast at QI.com. Yep.

    No Such Thing as a Blatant Plug for the Book of the Year 2019, 2019-10-24 · listen

  2. We've got In our upcoming book, we've got an article on the Fatberg that was displayed in the London Museum this year. What is that book, Dan? It's going to be called the book of the year 2018. Okay. Where is it going to be available? Places like Waterstones and online retailers that Andy doesn't allow us to say anymore. What I do? It's going to be on Amazon. No, you can't say that. Sorry, you were saying?

    No Such Thing As The Great Modesto, 2018-08-10 · listen

  3. Greg. Your new book is called Dead Famous. Where can people get it in case they don't understand how to buy books? These days, buying books is actually quite hard. Yeah, I mean, Waterstones is a good place. Independent book's lovely. Amazon have got it. The audiobook is me reading it, and people seem to quite like it. That's a nice way to get it that's safe and relatively cheap.

    No Such Thing As 'Of Quails and Men', 2020-04-24 · listen

  4. Oh, I don't know. So it's not all of them going for that. No. No. Your Kindle PDF is not going to be sold at Southerty's. Have you noticed that every branch of Waterstones has a massive safe in the middle of the shop floor? That's where they keep that book. I was this close as starting up and walking off the podcast never to return. Fuck you guys!

    No Such Thing As A Presidential Fight Club, 2020-10-09 · listen

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