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Mary Portas is a businesswoman, broadcaster, author and activist. She has published four books: Windows: The Art of Retail Display, Shop Girl, Work Like A Woman and Rebuild. At age 32 she became a board member at Harvey Nichols before founding her own retail consultancy. Mary has since worked with some of the biggest names in global retail. Her BBC series Mary Queen of Shops premiered in 2007 and she has presented on television and radio ever since. In 2009, she partnered with Save The Children to reinvent charity shops. She also conducted a review of the future for high streets for the British government in 2011. As co-chair of the Better Business Act, Mary heads a coalition of businesses calling for a change in the law to ensure UK companies align their interests with those of wider society and the environment. In 2024 she was awarded an OBE for her services to business, broadcasting and charity.
A book with all the grit, gossip, beauty and brutality of retail. I couldn't put it down! -- MICHELLE OGUNDEHIN If anyone wants to know what it was like to be a woman working in the heart of London fashion retail in the '90s, Mary Portas's book provides an entertaining rollercoaster ride -- ALEXANDRA SHULMAN Britain's ""Queen of Shops"" takes us back three decades to her time stalking the floor at Harvey Nichols, at the height of its Ab Fab-inspired cachet * * Guardian * * This page-turning memoir is Absolutely Fabulous fun - quite literally. But it is also about the serious business of following one's instincts, taking creative risks and negotiating inflexible (male) managers -- CAROLINE SANDERSON * * Bookseller * * Praise for Mary Portas: 'Portas writes with wit and verve * * Independent * * Mary is my hero -- SCARLETT CURTIS
