The Face Pressed Against a Window: A Memoir

Tim Waterstone

ISBN 10: 1786496305 / ISBN 13: 9781786496300

Published by Allen and Unwin, 2019

About this Item

Fine in fine wrapper. Second printing. Signed and dated presentation copy by the iconic businessman and bookseller.

Seller Inventory # 99278

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Face Pressed Against a Window: A Memoir
• Publisher: Allen and Unwin
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786496305
• ISBN 13: 9781786496300
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Tim Waterstone read English at Cambridge University before moving to Calcutta to work for a broking firm. On returning to England, he worked at W.H. Smith for eight years, and went on to establish the bookselling chain Waterstone's in 1982. He became the founder chairman of HMV media group in 1998, which he left in 2001. He is currently the chancellor of Edinburgh Napier University and a board member of Yale University Press, as well as being a novelist and business speaker.