Confessions of a Bookseller
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One cozy, humorous, 12 months with a Scottish used bookseller as he stays afloat whereas managing employees, clients, and life within the village of Wigtown. This endearing world is the following neatest thing to visiting your favourite bookstore (store cat not included).
Inside a Georgian townhouse on the Wigtown highroad, jammed with greater than 100,000 books and a portly cat named Captain, Shaun Bythell manages the every day ups and downs of operating Scotland’s largest used bookshop with a pointy eye and even sharper wit. His account of 1 12 months behind the counter is one thing no guide lover ought to miss.
Shaun copes with eccentric employees, tallies up the day’s orders, drives to distant homes to purchase non-public libraries, and meditates on the character of life and unbiased bookstores (“There actually does appear to be a serendipity about bookshops, not simply with discovering books you by no means knew existed, or that you simply’ve been trying to find, however with individuals too.”).
Confessions of a Bookseller is a heat and welcome memoir of a life in books. It’s for any reader in search of the form of buddy you meet in a bookstore.
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A really humorous life with books.
“Bythell’s depraved pen and eager eye for the absurd recall what comedian Ricky Gervais may say if he ran a bookshop.”—Wall Road Journal
“Heat, witty and laugh-out-loud humorous…”—Each day Mail
“Bythell is a skillful author . . . he creates a full, interesting world populated with colourful characters . . . an endearing and considerate guide.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
“…amusing and infrequently cantankerous tales [that] bibliophiles will enjoyment of, and infrequently wince at…”—Publishers Weekly
“Bythell writes with biting humor . . . he’s a person on a mission, and 12 months seen via his eyes convinces the reader that may be a mission worthy of endeavor.”—Chicago Tribune
“Virtuosic venting…misanthropy is tempered with bursts of sweetness within the secondhand bookseller’s newest dispatches from Wigtown, Scotland.”—The Guardian
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