About this blog

My mission is to visit all the Waterstones branches in mainland Great Britain!

I’m a real book worm.  I love books and I love book shops.  I like independent book shops but I also love Waterstones (although I’m still cross about them dropping their apostrophe!).  I love the smell of Waterstones.  They have their own unique smell, I think. 

I also love (albeit to a lesser degree) spreadsheets.  What started off as a spreadsheet about Waterstones stores soon turned into the idea of the visits – and this site came about after I talked about my visits to my lovely Book Club friends.

I started in 2017 and it will take me many years to complete it – if I ever do.  Wish me luck! 

My lovely husband Peter accompanies me on most of my trips.  You’ll even see him in some of my photos – doing a Hitchcock!

Occasionally Waterstones will relocate a branch in the same town, or even close, and then open a new one a few years later.  In this case, I will only visit them if we’re in the area and have time to do so.  I’ll post pictures of the new store, and link back to the blog for the original site.

All maps come from OpenStreetMap