- Publisher: Profile
- Year: 2020
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 332pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 197x128mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.3kg
- ISBN: 9781788162319
- Product code: 528971
Confessions of a Bookseller
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Shaun Bythell has run The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland’s ‘book town’, since 2001. In this humorous day-by-day account of one year behind the till, he contends with eccentric customers, itinerant sellers of second-hand books, and online orders thwarted by unreliable broadband. At the end of each day, he tots up the takings and the number of purchasers, before setting off for the pub or a walk along a rainswept Galloway beach.
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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.
'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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<p>Shaun Bythell has run The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland’s ‘book town’, since 2001. In this humorous day-by-day account of one year behind the till, he contends with eccentric customers, itinerant sellers of second-hand books, and online orders thwarted by unreliable broadband. At the end of each day, he tots up the takings and the number of purchasers, before setting off for the pub or a walk along a rainswept Galloway beach.</p>
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