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The Face Pressed Against a Window Tim Waterstone

The Face Pressed Against a Window By Tim Waterstone

The Face Pressed Against a Window by Tim Waterstone


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Summary

An evocative and candid memoir that charts the key moments in the life of Britain's most successful bookseller.

The Face Pressed Against a Window Summary

The Face Pressed Against a Window: A Memoir by Tim Waterstone

Tim Waterstone is one of Britain's most successful businessmen, having built the Waterstone's empire that started with one small bookshop in 1982.

In this charming and evocative memoir, he recalls the childhood experiences that led him to become an entrepreneur and outlines the business philosophy that allowed Waterstone's to dominate the bookselling business throughout the country.

Tim explores his formative years in a small town in rural England at the end of the Second World War, and the troubled relationship he had with his father, before moving on to the epiphany he had while studying at Cambridge, which set him on the road to Waterstone's and gave birth to the creative strategy that made him a high street name.

Candid and moving, The Face Pressed Against a Window charts the life of one of our most celebrated business leaders.

The Face Pressed Against a Window Reviews

[A] moving, funny take on business, family and mortality -- Jim Armitage * Evening Standard *
The rollicking, page-turning memoir of Britain's biggest book tycoon * Daily Mail *
[Waterstone] writes movingly... Small, poignant images standout... From such raw clay are great entrepreneurs moulded * The Tablet *
The Face Pressed Against a Window confirms one's sense that this extraordinarily energetic and well-meaning man has been, and still is, a force for good. * Literary Review *

About Tim Waterstone

Tim Waterstone read English at Cambridge University before moving to Calcutta to work for a broking firm. On returning to England, he worked at WHSmith for eight years, and went on to establish the bookselling chain Waterstones in 1982. In 2018 he was knighted for services to bookselling and charity.

Table of Contents

1: Prologue 1: Part One 2: Where the Children of My Childhood Played 2: Part Two 3: I do, ladies. I do. I 'ave a go. 3: Epilogue 4: Miranda Beeching 5: The Carriage Clock

Additional information

GOR009649915
9781786496300
1786496305
The Face Pressed Against a Window: A Memoir by Tim Waterstone
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Atlantic Books
2019-02-07
336
N/A
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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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