Taking the £6000 redundancy payout, he set up his first store in Old Brompton Road, Kensington with the ambition of creating a'different breed of bookshop', using literary authors in front of store displays and employing highly literate staff.
Taking the £6000 redundancy payout, he set up his first store in Old Brompton Road, Kensington with the ambition of creating a'different breed of bookshop', using techniques he had seen in the United States. He used literary authors in front of store displays and employing highly literate staff.