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  • Clouds: '+clouds+'%
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Percival Everett and Samantha Harvey favourites to win 2024 Booker prize

The Observer 11 Nov 2024
Percival Everett and Samantha Harvey are the bookies’ favourites to win the 2024 Booker prize ... On Wednesday, the Booker prize and Waterstones are due to launch the “Booker Library” at the chain’s Piccadilly branch ... Share. Reuse this content. .
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Wes Streeting rules out Gove-style midlife crisis

The Times/The Sunday Times 15 Aug 2024
Wes Streeting has been health secretary for barely a month and already it is starting to age him ... Speaking at the launch at Waterstones Piccadilly, Loxton said she was all in favour of creative licence when it came to historical films ... UK. Politics ... .
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Ferdia Lennon wins Waterstones prize

The Irish Times 25 Jul 2024
Ferdia Lennon has won the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2024 for his novel Glorious Exploits at a ceremony at the Waterstones Piccadilly flagship bookshop in London this evening ... Bea Carvalho, Waterstones Head of Books, says.
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‘My single friend just wants to hook up on holiday — I’m married’

The Times/The Sunday Times 05 May 2024
Q ... I don’t fancy being in that situation again — how do I avoid it?. A ... Advertisement ... GETTY IMAGES ... Q ... Meet our Travel Troubleshooter Kathy Lette and have your travel questions answered in person at this event on May 7 at London’s Waterstones Piccadilly ... .
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Book Box | Unravelling the art of translation at London’s oldest bookstore

Hindustan Times 13 Apr 2024
PREMIUM Translators Donald Rayfield, Georgia de Chamberet & Dennis Duncan ( L to R) at Hatchards Piccadilly, London(Author) ... The Piccadilly ... There is the six-storeyed Waterstones Books close by.
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Bill Granger, top chef and entrepreneur, dead at 54

New York Post 27 Dec 2023
Bill Granger, a renowned Australian restaurateur and the “godfather” of avocado toast, has died at 54, his family confirmed in an Instagram post ... Bill Granger attends a cooking demonstration at Waterstone’s, Piccadilly. Corbis via Getty Images.
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Alexander Taylor’s coming-of-age queer thriller BONE BROTH named winner of the 2023 First Graphic Novel Award

The Beat 12 Dec 2023
Alexander Taylor's coming-of-age queer thriller 'Bone Broth' was named the 2023 winner of the First Graphic Novel Award at a December 11 ceremony in London's Piccadilly Waterstones bookstore. It will see publication sometime around 2025 ... .
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Britney Spears book LIVE: The Woman In Me revelations as world reacts to Notebook audition ...

The Daily Mail 24 Oct 2023
Read Me Baby, One More Time - Britney Themed Silent Disco at Waterstones Piccadilly ... whistle-stop tour of London before grabbing their very own copies of Britney’s book from Waterstones Piccadilly.
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Millie Bobby Brown debuts new hair amidst Nineteen Steps promotion, fans compare her to ICONIC Blair Waldorf

Pinkvilla 14 Sep 2023
Millie Bobby Brown debuts new hair amidst Nineteen Steps promotion, fans compare her to ICONIC Blair Waldorf. Key Highlight ... Millie hosted a book signing event at Waterstones in Piccadilly, where she showcased her retro-inspired outfit ... .
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Alice Winn’s In Memoriam scoops Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2023

AOL 24 Aug 2023
Winn was announced as the winner of the prize at an evening ceremony at the Waterstones flagship bookshop in Piccadilly on Thursday ... Bea Carvalho, head of books and campaigns at Waterstones, says.
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London's oldest bookshop Hatchards sees surge in sales after Gen Z create TikToks of themselves ...

The Daily Mail 14 Aug 2023
Francis Cleverdon, the manager of Hatchards, in Piccadilly, told the Times ... The store is now owned by Waterstones - and is a stone's throw away from Waterstones Piccadilly, the biggest bookshop in Europe.
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‘I can’t stress how much BookTok sells’: teen literary influencers swaying publishers

The Guardian 06 Aug 2023
... careers as the social media app continues to reshape the industry The famous Waterstones in London’s Piccadilly is a modernist/art deco building.
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Catch coronation fever in London’s affluent Mayfair ‘hood

New York Post 05 May 2023
While in the ‘hood and still hungering for literary inspiration, walk over to Piccadilly Circus for lunch on the fourth floor of Waterstones, billed as Europe’s largest bookstore, or head ...
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Waterstones chief James Daunt: Covid made people pick up books again

This is Money 08 Apr 2023
Sitting in one of the bustling cafes at his gigantic Waterstones store in London's Piccadilly – a temple to literature that is so expensive to run it stands out a mile on the company's balance sheet – ...
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Waterstones chief James Daunt: Covid was brilliant for us - it made people pick up ...

The Daily Mail 08 Apr 2023
Sitting in one of the bustling cafes at his gigantic Waterstones store in London's Piccadilly – a temple to literature that is so expensive to run it stands out a mile on the company's balance sheet – ...

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