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by Shaun Bythell
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Confessions of a Bookseller |
This is a delightful sequel to The Diary of a Bookseller (bwl 95), something to make you chuckle and enter into the world of the somewhat eccentric and at moments curmudgeonly owner of Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. He doesn't like customers who bargain and wishes they'd put things back in the right place, his loyal and faithful assistants are never quite good enough. Yet despite, or perhaps because of his droll and pithy grumbles, he comes across as an absolute treasure. Read it and laugh!
(Jenny Baker - bwl 97 Summer 2020) |
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Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops |
An enjoyable romp by the author of The Diary of a Bookseller on the customers who irritate him most grouped into seven categories: The Expert, Young Family, Occultist, Loiterer, Bearded Pensioner, Not-so-Silent Traveller and the Historian. As you read it you wonder if you will recognise yourself or if not someone you know. You might think this a risky undertaking for someone wanting to sell his stock but his self-deprecating humour will disarm anyone who might have been offended.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 99 Winter 2021) |
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The Diary of a Bookseller |
The perfect antidote to the 'quick-click' on Amazon would be to browse the dusty shelves of the Wigtown Bookshop! I haven't been there, but reading this diary is surely the next best thing. Packed full of anecdotes - buying his collections, selling to customers (in the shop and on-line), the eccentric employees, and organising the annual Wigtown Book Festival. It's all a delight - and has been followed by 'Confessions of a Bookseller' and it's rumoured a TV series may follow.
(Mary Standing - bwl 95 Winter 2020) |
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