General retail sales values were up 0.1% like-for-like in July but shops in central London continue to report a slow August as people avoid the area during the Olympics.

Waterstones reported that “central London is generally quiet” and independents like Vivian Archer’s Newham Bookshop in East London nearby to the...

The co-owner of the Big Green Bookshop has launched his own publishing company and is set to release his first book with author Greg Stekelman.

Simon Key, co-owner of the independent bookshop based in Wood Green, London, has named the company Timeline Books. It will publish London Tales, an illustrated work about the city,...

It is six months since Waterstone's closed in Wood Green . . . In only a matter of weeks before there will finally be a bookshop in Wood Green again. Scroll down to read a diary of the past week.

Monday 4th February 2008

Here we go again...

Former Waterstone's booksellers Tim West and Simon Key have named their new Wood Green indie, The Big Green Bookshop. West and Key decided to open a shop in North London after Waterstone's closed down its shop in Wood Green.

The pair ran a competition in Wood Green to name the bookshop, and sent competition forms to all the local...