Waterstones

Waterstones is the UK's leading High Street and online bookseller, providing the widest choice, great value and expert advice from teams across the country who are passionate about Bookselling,

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    +44 20 7636 1577

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  • Type

    Bookstore

Address

82 Gower St (Torrington Pl) Bloomsbury Greater London WC1E 6EQ United Kingdom

Credit Cards Yes (incl. NFC Payments & Visa)
Wi-Fi Free

Comments / 44


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Rob Parry

Probably (one of) the best Waterstones around - much nicer than the more popular ones around central London. The selection of foreign literature books is second to none for a commercial chain!

Eman Abdulaziz

My favorite bookstore so far in London. They have large variety of books , great display and few second hand books for collectors.

Kate Klink

Nice coffee shop downstairs with free WiFi . A perfect spot to get an inspiration for your future book and stumble upon a famous writer :)

Eddie C

Full of wonderful novelty items. Great books . Beautiful and cheap coffee . Love this place!

Aen Sirinel

This is a huge bookstore with multiple floors and old-school creaky wooden stairs between them. There's also a little café on the ground floor.

Michael Stewart

It is now an omnishables of a store.... Great if you've hours to trawl through books dumped on shelves or hope for the occasional sighting of a store assistant, otherwise the best Amazon Ad in town .

M W

Very comfortable bookshop with lots of areas tucked away to read the wide variety of interesting items from their shelves.

Taymaz Azimi

Although it is near Birkbick, SOAS and UCL, the academic sections are not satisfactory. There is always at least one book on my reading lists that I cannot find here. Generally it's fine though!

Anna

It's like regular Waterstones, plus! Huge, universityish and crammed with new books on every conceivable subject, with the added bonus of an exciting remainders/2nd-hand section. Has a Fopp and Costa .

Jack Davis

One of the best academic bookstores in London . Has a cosy downstairs cafe !

Abdullah

One of my favorite bookstores in London , very cosy yet big

George Mills

Amazing remaindered book section - you can find some gems here for very little.

Jonny Manf

Massive bookstore with an enjoyable place to read in Costa Coffee in the basement .

Justin

HUGE selection of books on several floors. Friendly , helpful staff

Giuseppe Desario

This is the biggest book shop of London in which you can find everything!! The world of the books !!

Kostas

It really wakes up your interest in reading but it's also enhanced by the presence of the universities near by.

Amber Books Ltd

The second hand section is worth finding - lots of unusual and rare books , a great place for serendipitous discoveries

Martin S.

Good place to read and have coffee on any given Saturday.

Esra K.

pick up your wish list book and sit costa which is usually located at downstairs in Waterstone.. luv it..

Houri MK

you can find any book you're looking for here!

Londonist

This place rewards exploration. There's an unexpected Costa down in the basement , and stair cases going off in random directions. Like a fun-sized Foyles.

Valentina Ciolino

Bigger than you would think. Good travel section in the basement

jason p

Like buying a book twenty years ago, nice to do it in person

Juha Ristolainen

Huge bookstore with lots of choice

Samuel Hextall

They have a second hand and remainders section here! Also have reading corners in the turrets!

DaBossLady

Interesting bookstore . Great selection of books including bestsellers

Deema Al-Salman

Free WiFi and student gets 10%off

Javiera Muñoz

Good psychoanlysis section, it's not Karnac but still they have the main ones

yossie q

Awesomely booksomely. If ever heaven existed on earth ..

Cintain 昆遊龍

Light reading for traveling… ????????

Dina

Amazing kingdom for book lovers! Can I live there, please?

Aya Kutbi

The best book store evvveerrrr

clive kornitzer

Good comic section

Saxow Boy

Ryman in the basement

wikey

I've never seen so many software engineering books on shelves

Amy Oberholzer

Fundraising section is on the second floor.

Aman Anand

This store has an impressive selection of second hand books on the first floor

Paola Bassanese Energya

Great customer service

Lizzie Duong

Loveliest staff ever.

Lucia P

Check the medical section!!

Kirill Gurbanov

Прекрасный книжный магазин . Всегда ухожу отсюда с уловом (и без денег ????)

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Самый классный из всех вотерстоунов в Лондоне. Много академической литературы, в том числе распродажные и букинистические. Это замок книг .

Martin S.

Americano.

Mònica

Prop del campus de l'UCL, per passar-hi estona i fer un cafè al Costa

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