Name: Confessions of a Bookseller
ISBN: 9781788162319

Shaun Bythell

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

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Confessions of a Bookseller

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.The Diary of a Bookseller (soon to be a major TV series) introduced us to the joys and frustrations of life lived in books. Sardonic and sympathetic in equal measure, Confessions of a Bookseller will reunite readers with the characters they've come to know and love.

Sonja H

„Confessions of a Bookseller“ ist das zweite Buch des Inhabers von „The Bookshop“ in Wigtown (Schottland).

Bereits sein erstes Buch „Tagebuch eines Buchhändlers“ fand ich sehr unterhaltsam und interessant im Hinblick auf den antiquarischen Buchhandel.
Sein neues Werk setzt dort an, wo das alte aufhörte und unterscheidet sich im Aufbau nicht: es sind Tagebucheinträge eines kompletten Jahres inkl. Onlinebestellungen, Besucherzahl und Gesamteinnahmen des Tages.

So gesehen bietet „Confessions of a Bookseller“ nichts Neues, dennoch hat es mir Spaß gemacht, erneut von seinen Begegnungen mit Kunden und Angestellten zu lesen. Es bietet einen guten Einblick in eine Welt, die mir recht fremd ist, die ich aber sehr spannend finde.

Es wird Bythell allerdings nicht gefallen, dass ich sein Buch auf einem Kindle gelesen habe, hat er doch mal auf so ein Gerät geschossen und es als „Mahnung“ an die Wand gehängt…

Eine nette, leichte Lektüre für zwischendurch.

Fatima Zahra

Laura Dobie

An enjoyable follow up to Diary of a Bookseller, with many moments that made me laugh out loud.

The new UK bestseller by the author of DIARY OF A BOOKSELLER--here's a memoir every bit as warm and welcoming as a visit to your very favorite bookstore. Inside a stone-faced Georgian townhouse on the Wigtown highroad, jammed with more than 100,000 books and one portly shop cat, Shaun Bythell manages the ups and downs of Scotland's largest used bookshop with a sharp eye and even sharper wit.

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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. The Diary of a Bookseller (soon to be a major TV series) introduced us to the joys and frustrations of life lived in books. Sardonic and sympathetic in equal measure, Confessions of a Bookseller will reunite readers with the characters they've come to know and love.

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