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‘The making of a bookshop mogul’
Tim Waterstone founded the biggest bookshop chain in the UK - Waterstones - that now has nearly 300 outlets.
For him, like many people, his love of books started as a child. When he was having a difficult time at home, they were escapism - a window into a different world.
Tim grew up during the Second World War and he remembers when his troubles first started - with his father...
Image: Tim Waterstone at a Waterstones bookshop in 1983
Credit: Mike Lawn/Getty Images
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