Unsuccessful at buying his way back into book retailing, Tim Waterstone will reappear in stores this fall as an author–of a “thinly disguised” novel IN FOR A PENNY, IN FOR A POUND from Corvus. The Guardian calls it “a searing treatment of the world of books that contains recognisable caricatures of several figures in publishing, newspapers and high finance.” Characters include “a brash book-buying chief at a chain of stores named Waterwells.”Guardian Though Martin Amis co-operated with biographer Richard Bradford, sitting for “five face-to-face interviews in return for having an ‘editorial say’ over the contents of the biography,” that “say” […]
