Confessions of a Bookseller

Confessions of a Bookseller

2019 • 324 pages

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A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Irreverently funny ... kept me giggling all week.' Scotland on Sunday "Do you have a list of your books, or do I just have to stare at them?" Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland. With more than a mile of shelving, real log fires in the shop and the sea lapping nearby, the shop should be an idyll for bookworms. Unfortunately, Shaun also has to contend with bizarre requests from people who don't understand what a shop is, home invasions during the Wigtown Book Festival and Granny, his neurotic Italian assistant who likes digging for river mud to make poultices.

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3 primary books

The Diary of a Bookseller

The Diary of a Bookseller is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2017 with contributions by Shaun Bythell.

The Diary of a Bookseller
Confessions of a Bookseller
Remainders of the Day

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A one-year diary of a bookshop owner in Wigtown, Scotland about life inside and outside the shop. It's a pleasant, amusing, easy read and I thoroughly enjoyed it as I think any book lover,book store browser would.

March 26, 2020

Confessions of a bookseller is every bit as good as the wonderful Diary of a Bookseller. This is a funny and honest account of the life of a bookseller and I find myself nodding in agreement or laughing aloud with the customer interactions described.

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July 14, 2021