Published: 03/08/2023
The bookshop veteran and author of The Diary of a Bookseller returns with more esoteric anecdotes and eccentric vignettes from his literary emporium.
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 porn-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.
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
ISBN: 9781800812437
Number of pages: 384
Weight: 300 g
Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 26 mm
Edition: Main
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Praise for Shaun Bythell:
'Gentle, funny and soothing.' - Alan Bennett
'Effortlessly charming ... it is soothing to sink once again into the rhythms of Bythell's year.' - TLS
'Utterly compelling ... I urge you to buy this book.' - Charlotte Heathcote, The Sunday Express
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“Full of humour and unique characters!”
Absolutely delightful diary of day-to-day surviving, selling second-hand books in the middle of nowhere (a previously unknown little town in Scotland). Every entry seems like a normal bookseller's day but turns... More
“He Nails It, Yet Again”
I adore Bythell’s books. I have been on pilgrimage to Wigtown. I have bought books from the man himself. Wigtown is a long way from Leicester and I already have too many books - to put this in context.
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