When Waterstone's first announced that they were going to trial a dress code in all branches within a few regions, much like the loyalty card, student discount schemes, and Waterstones.com, I wondered what took them so long.

The "dress code" (and it is "dress code"--Waterstone's managers were banned from using the...

Ways To Live Forever (Scholastic) by Sally Nicholls won the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize.

Nicholls, who saw off competition from eight other authors, received the award on Wednesday (13th February). Her win marks Scholastic's second victory in a row: last year's winner was Darkside by Tom Becker,...

Waterstone's has selected the 12 authors for its New Voices campaign in March as part of its wider "Writer's Year" promotion. The bookseller said that it believed the authors were likely future winners of literary prizes, and has included a title from independent Old Street, as well as three Random House Group books, four...

Bookshops Waterstones and Borders have been ranked fifth and ninth respectively in a Which? survey of high street stores. Both, however, come behind 'independent shops' in users' ratings. Woolworths and W H Smith were among those retailers getting the lowest marks.

Waterstone's moved ahead of Marks & Spencer in its...