Tag: Waterstones

  • Both Sides of Tim Daunt

    …and the mixed fortunes of independent bookshops. The Sunday Times recently ran a lengthy article about the bookseller extraordinaire Tim Daunt. Having set up his own excellent bookshops, the most elegant of which is in Marylebone High Street, he became CEO of Waterstones and now also oversees the chain of Barnes and Noble in the […]

  • Hatchards

    The oldest bookshop in the country is in a tall, five storey building at 187 Piccadilly. Hatchards was opened by John Hatchard, a publisher and anti- slavery campaigner in 1797. It remains in the same building to this day and is an inviting place in which to browse. Age, heritage and time past are in […]