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The Diary of a Bookseller

  • 314 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 2017
  • 4 editions

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1 About this book

The funny and fascinating memoir of Bythell's experiences at the helm of The Bookshop, Scotland's largest second hand bookstore--and the delightfully unusual staff members, eccentric customers, odd townsfolk and surreal buying trips that make up his life there.

  • Biography
  • Booksellers and bookselling, biography
  • Bookstores
  • Scotland, biography
  • Booksellers and bookselling
  • Antiquarian booksellers
  • Diaries

2 About Shaun Bythell

Born 1970

Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, and also one of the organisers of the Wigtown Festival. His books about life running Scotland's largest second hand bookshop have been international bestsellers and translated into many languages. (Profile Books)

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