Confessions of a Bookseller
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Average rating4.4
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Ratings7
Average rating4.4
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 booksThe Diary of a Bookseller is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2017 with contributions by Shaun Bythell.
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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.
I thought this was a novel when I requested it from the library. Turns out it's a memoir in the form of a diary of one year in a second-hand bookseller's life (2015). It was interesting to see what that life –one that has often tempted me – is like, how they were dealing with the monster that is Amazon and the havoc it has wrought on in-person bookstores – and his dealings with customers and employees and the daily life of a small town in Scotland. But, it did not engross me and was not what I had expected and had I thumbed through it before putting it on hold I probably should have skipped it but all of that said if you know what you're expecting and enjoy diary-type memoirs and booksellers, pick it up!
