Today’s book club selection is Creating My Own Nemesis, John Wardley‘s autobiography, telling the full story from childhood to the opening of The Smiler at Alton Towers in 2013.
“The autobiography of the man who brought the theme park concept to Britain, and created some of the world’s most thrilling rides and attractions.”
Availability: Always Available
ISBN: 9781941500651
Pages: 186 pages
Published: 2013 (republished 2015)
Audiobook: Yes via Audible
Available from our friends at Joyland Books and at most good bookshops
“It’s essentially a book of two halves, in the first we hear about his childhood, the key moments that captured his imagination and how a summer work experience job in Great Yarmouth would eventually convince him that his future was not to be in the family printing firm…
In the second, it’s far more glamorous and we hear the story of how some of the most famous rides in the UK were imagined and ultimately created via South Wales and James Bond. A great read, thoroughly recommended.”
