EAN: 9781781258637

THE DIARY OF A BOOKSELLER - SHAUN BYTHELL KARTO...

Love  Nina meets Black Books: a wry and hilarious account of life in Scotland's biggest
second-hand bookshop and the band of eccentrics and book-obsessives who work there 'The Diary
Of A Bookseller is warm (unlike Bythell's freezing-cold shop) and funny  and deserves to become
one of those bestsellers that irritate him so much.' (Mail on Sunday) 'Utterly compelling and
Bythell has a Bennett-like eye for the amusing eccentricities of ordinary people ... I urge you
to buy this book and please  even at the risk of being insulted or moaned at  buy it from a
real live bookseller.' (Charlotte Heathcote Sunday Express)Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop 
Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100 000 books  spread over a
mile of shelving  with twisting corridors and roaring fires  and all set in a beautiful  rural
town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover's paradise? Well  almost ... In these wry and
hilarious diaries  Shaun provides an inside look at the trials and tribulations of life in the
book trade  from struggles with eccentric customers to wrangles with his own staff  who include
the ski-suit-wearing  bin-foraging Nicky. He takes us with him on buying trips to old estates
and auction houses  recommends books (both lost classics and new discoveries)  introduces us to
the thrill of the unexpected find  and evokes the rhythms and charms of small-town life  always
with a sharp and sympathetic eye.

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