The Face Pressed Against a Window

A Memoir

Tim Waterstone author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Atlantic Books

Published:7th Feb '19

£17.99

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The Face Pressed Against a Window cover

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.

[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 *

ISBN: 9781786496300

Dimensions: 243mm x 167mm x 30mm

Weight: 675g

336 pages

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