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A ‘riveting’ memoir by Waterstones founder Tim Waterstone is going out on submission to publishers this week.
The book, being represented by Curtis Brown chairman Jonathan Lloyd, is titled The Face Pressed Against a Window.
Waterstone told The Bookseller: "The Face Pressed Against A Window is a memoir of my whole life, from the vicissitudes of my childhood through to the creation of Waterstone's and a detailed account of the 30 years of subsequent personal battles thereof, and beyond. It is a mixture of literal narrative into which a series of short stories are interweaved, these all of them integral to my account of my life."
Lloyd said: “As you can imagine from the man, this is a surprising and unorthodox but riveting and insightful story.”
Waterstone, 78, founded the Waterstones chain in 1982, and was a founder chairman of HMV Media Group which merged the businesses of Waterstone's and HMV, before leaving in 2001. Previously he worked for W H Smith, and before that for Allied Breweries and for a broking firm in Calcutta. He was born in Glasgow, and brought up in Crowborough, East Sussex.
Waterstone has previously written novels, and a business book, Swimming Against the Stream (Macmillan).