Shaun Bythell

The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the bookshop cat. You'd think after twenty years, owner Shaun Bythell would be used to the customers by now. Don't get him wrong - there are some good ones among the antiquarian erotica-hunters, die-hard Arthurians, people who confuse bookshops for libraries and the toddlers just looking for a nice cosy corner in which to wee. He's sure there are. There must be some good ones, right? Filled with the pernickety warmth and humour that has touched readers around the world, stuffed with literary treasures, hidden gems and incunabula, Remainders of the Day is Shaun Bythell's latest entry in his bestselling diary series.

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Some people (so we're told) don't read. What unfulfilling lives they lead.

This time of year, with the lengthening days, is unquestionably my favourite.

he has a curiosity that would have eliminated the whole of Scotland's cat population.

quote by R.M. Williamson, Bits from an Old Bookshop

Every little knick-knack in a home twines itself around one's heart as one remembers some incident which connects it with the past.

The pleasure derived from collecting books is a pleasure that never palls; a joy for ever. Once a lover always a lover, is a true saying when applied to a lover of books.

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