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The diary of a bookseller / Shaun Bythell.
"The funny and fascinating memoir of Bythell's experiences at the helm of The Bookshop, Scotland's largest second hand bookstore -- and the delightfully unusual staff members, eccentric customers, odd townsfolk and surreal buying trips that make up his life there"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781612197241 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Brooklyn : Melville House, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published in Great Britain: Profile Books Ltd, 2017. |
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| Subject: | Bythell, Shaun. Book Shop (Wigtown, Scotland) Antiquarian booksellers > Scotland > Wigtown > Biography. Booksellers and bookselling > Scotland. |
| Genre: | Biographies. |
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"The funny and fascinating memoir of Bythell's experiences at the helm of The Bookshop, Scotland's largest second hand bookstore--and the delightfully unusual staff members, eccentric customers, odd townsfolk and surreal buying trips that make up his life there"-- - Book News
The author, who runs a bookstore, offers a memoir of his life running the store in a remote Scottish village, Wigtown, Scotland, famous for being a book town. He relates a year in the life of running The Bookshop, the country's largest secondhand bookstore, telling of difficulties owning a business, the eccentricities of customers, dealing with his staff, buying trips to old estates and auctions, small-town life, and other aspects. Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) - Random House, Inc.
A WRY AND HILARIOUS ACCOUNT OF LIFE AT A BOOKSHOP IN A REMOTE SCOTTISH VILLAGE
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"Among the most irascible and amusing bookseller memoirs I've read." âDwight Garner, The New York Times
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"Warm, witty and laugh-out-loud funny..." âThe Daily Mail
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The Diary of a Bookseller is Shaun Bythell's funny and fascinating memoir of a year in the life at the helm of The Bookshop, in the small village of Wigtown, Scotlandâand of the delightfully odd locals, unusual staff, eccentric customers, and surreal buying trips that make up his life there as he struggles to build his business . . . and be polite . . .
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In this wry and hilarious diary, he tells us the trials and tribulations of being a small businessman; of learning that customers can be, um, eccentric; and of wrangling with his own staff of oddballs. And perhaps none are quirkier than the charmingly cantankerous bookseller Bythell himself turns out to be.
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Slowly, with a mordant wit and keen eye, Bythell is seduced by the growing charm of small-town life, despiteâor maybe because ofâall the peculiar characters there.
