Waterstones and the Society of Authors are “engaged in dialogue” to draw up a list of guidelines for authors on how to conduct bookshop events. The move follows a furore over a new policy at the ...

Waterstones has issued new advice to its bookstores on running author events, after concern that customers were being put off by writers handselling their own books, and that signings were lasting too ...

Waterstones has apologised after booklovers complained of "utter chaos" and overcrowding at an event at its flagship shop on Wednesday. Attendees said the bookseller's annual BookFest was disorganised ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An event at Waterstones’ flagship Piccadilly store descended into chaos as attendees faced overcrowding and mass confusion. Some ...

An event at Waterstones’ flagship Piccadilly store descended into chaos as attendees faced overcrowding and mass confusion. Some at the bookshop’s BookFest 2025 said the conditions were “dangerous” ...