The Diary of a Bookseller

By Shaun Bythell

Book Overview

A WRY AND HILARIOUS ACCOUNT OF LIFE AT A BOOKSHOP IN A REMOTE SCOTTISH VILLAGE

"Among the most irascible and amusing bookseller memoirs I've read." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times

"Warm, witty and laugh-out-loud funny..." --The Daily Mail

The Diary of a Bookseller is Shaun Bythell's funny and fascinating memoir of a year in the life at the helm of The Bookshop, in the small village of Wigtown, Scotland--and of the delightfully odd locals, unusual staff, eccentric customers, and surreal buying trips that make up his life there as he struggles to build his business . . . and be polite . . .

In this wry and hilarious diary, he tells us the trials and tribulations of being a small businessman; of learning that customers can be, um, eccentric; and of wrangling with his own staff of oddballs. And perhaps none are quirkier than the charmingly cantankerous bookseller Bythell himself turns out to be.

Slowly, with a mordant wit and keen eye, Bythell is seduced by the growing charm of small-town life, despite--or maybe because of--all the peculiar characters there.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612198163
• ISBN13: 9781612198163
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Melville House Publishing
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

a year in a bookshop

Great fun peeking in The Book Shop in Wigtown, Scotland. Hope to visit someday. If you enjoy, check out the entire series (and the shop's socials)

A Review on The Diary of A Bookseller

This is a great book. He has fantastic humor and he's a good writer making his everyday life seem like a fantasy in my eyes. If your an aspiring bookseller this book could gleam helpful he writes the day, the amount of online orders, the amount of customers and the amount he made that day. Also he writes on how gets his books, deals with customers, building expenses, etc. Actually now that I say that. I see that reading this could be helpful to anyone who strives to be the owner their own business or simply enjoys reading.