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    The Face Pressed Against a Window: A Memoir
    The Face Pressed Against a Window: A Memoir
    The Face Pressed Against a Window: A Memoir
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    The Face Pressed Against a Window: A Memoir

    Written by Tim Waterstone

    Narrated by Tim Waterstone

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    About this audiobook

    Candid and moving, The Face Pressed Against a Window charts the life of one of our most celebrated business leaders.
    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateMay 9, 2019
    ISBN9781528865159
    The Face Pressed Against a Window: A Memoir
    Author

    Tim Waterstone

    Tim Waterstone opened the first Waterstone's bookshop in 1982. By 2003 the company had grown to become the UK's leading specialist bookseller, trading from almost two hundred high street and academic campus shops across the UK, Ireland and Europe. Tim also dedicates much time to charitable organisations and the arts.

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