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‘The best memoir by a senior politician for years.’ Simon Jenkins, Sunday Times
John Major’s autobiography is one of the most personal and revealing ever written by a former British Prime Minister. The account of his childhood, rise and fall is candid, scrupulous and unsparing.
Major’s early life was extraordinary; his rise through Parliament meteoric. Soon a favourite of Margaret Thatcher, he became Foreign Secretary and then Chancellor of the Exchequer. When Thatcher fell, he fought and won a shrewd campaign to succeed her, and went on to win a remarkable general election victory in 1992. He brought down inflation and ushered in a solid economic recovery, yet within months of the 1992 election, his government was in troubled waters. John Major is candid about his fight to keep sterling in the ERM and his reactions to ‘Black Wednesday’. He is frank about the civil war within his party over Britain’s relationship with the EU. He is honest about what he won and what he lost, about friends and foes within his party as well as outside.
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Tim Waterstone
British bookseller, businessman and author (born 1939)
Sir Tim Waterstone (born 30 May 1939) is a British bookseller, businessman and author. He is the founder of Waterstones, the United Kingdom-based bookseller retail chain, the largest in Europe.
Early life
[edit]Timothy John Stuart Waterstone[1] was born on 30 May 1939 in Glasgow, Scotland. He is the son of Malcolm Stuart Waterstone, MBE (died 1977), and Sylvia Catherine (died 1967), daughter of George Curnock Sawday of Beechfield,[2] The Common, Weybridge, Surrey, a dentist[3][4] and "well-known amateur rosarian".[5][6][7] Malcolm Waterstone had previously worked in Calcutta in his fifty-year career with P. R. Buchanan & Co., a Glasgow tea company operating in India, of which he became a partner. [8][9] He was appointed MBE in 1942, whilst serving as a Captain (temporary Major) in the Royal Army Service Corps.[10][11][12][13] Waterstone grew up in "a rather cramped, 1930s detached house ... Ugly, unpretentious, nice big garden, fields at the end of it" in Crowborough, East Sussex, England.[12] He was educated at Tonbridge School and St Catharine's College,