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• Night at the bookshop: Waterstones stages a sleepover after a tourist got trapped in the store

  21 Oct 2014: After an American tourist got locked in to one of their bookshops, Waterstones are inviting volunteers for a sleepover. Here are ten short books you could read in an evening – but what would you do if you could spend the night in a bookshop? Let us know in the comments below

• Brand personality training to 'help people fall in love with Waterstones'

  Guardian Professional, 15 Jul 2014:

  Companies such as Waterstones are investing in repositioning their brands and promoting 'brand personality'

• Katherine Rundell interview: 'wouldn't it be fantastic if people actually did live up here on rooftops and nobody knows?'

  14 Apr 2014:

  Katherine Rundell, Blue Peter book prize and Waterstones children's book prize winner for 2014, talks to site member LottieLongshanks about Rooftoppers and the book she's writing now

• Quickfire interview: Erin Lange

  1 Apr 2014:

  Erin Lange, whose debut novel Butter is up for the Waterstones children's book prize (announced Thursday 3 April), takes the Guardian children's books quickfire interview

• Campaign to end gender-specific children's books gathers support

  16 Mar 2014: Waterstones, children's laureate Malorie Blackman, poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy and Phillip Pullman among supporters

• Now even Waterstones is mocking Cameron's photo on Twitter

  7 Mar 2014: First it was Patrick Stewart and some wet wipes; now a bookshop has got the better of the PM after he tried to recover from the ‘on-the-phone-to-Obama’ tweet parodies with a (rather unsuccessful) joke of his own
  

• Waterstones boss James Daunt: 'We can sell enough books to stay alive'

  28 Feb 2014: With ebook sales plateauing, the former independent bookseller hired in 2011 to turn around the chain's fortunes is bullish about the future of his brand, writes Alison Flood

• Discover the 2014 Waterstones children's book prize shortlist

  13 Feb 2014:

  Find out more about the 18 books up for the Waterstones children's book prize, the award known for championing new and emerging writers and illustrators

• Below the line with BenMcCrory: 'speculation is fun and harmless'

  24 Jan 2014:

  Below the line: I like to take a show such as Homeland, which is already ridiculous, and make it even more so

• WH Smith sales fall as boss warns high street spending constrained

  22 Jan 2014: Sales at shops open more than a year fell 4% in the 20 weeks to 18 January, while sales of books said to be down 7-8%

• Waterstones sales down 'a smudge'

  8 Jan 2014: Chief executive James Daunt says bookstore chain enjoyed a much more profitable Christmas than in 2012

• Stoner wins Waterstones Book of the Year

  3 Dec 2013: Renewed popularity of 1965 novel by the late John Williams secures bookseller's award for standout novel of the year

• Guardian first book award winner Donal Ryan – books podcast

  Audio (25min 30sec), 29 Nov 2013:

  We talk to readers, judges and the 2013 winner Donal Ryan at the Guardian first book award ceremony

• WH Smith shuts down its website over hardcore pornographic ebooks

  13 Oct 2013: Retailer apologises after being alerted to titles on its site, adding self-publishing had left sellers exposed to pornographic content

• Waterstones can live with Amazon and stem losses, says James Daunt

  4 Oct 2013: The feelgood factor has returned to the high-street chain, but is stocking the Kindle like inviting a fox into the henhouse?

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