The life story and creative business strategy that saw Tim Waterstone establish a bookshop empire is reflected on in a candid and open manner in this memoir from the Waterstones founder.
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 ...