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The Face Pressed Against a Window: The Bookseller Who Built Waterstones
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A captivating memoir of a bookselling empire's rise and a life shaped by literature.
Tim Waterstone, the founder of Waterstone's, recounts his journey from a small-town childhood to building Britain's largest bookselling chain. This memoir explores his formative years, his complex relationship with his father, and the epiphany at Cambridge that sparked his entrepreneurial vision.
Discover the business philosophy that propelled Waterstone's to dominate the bookselling industry. This is more th...