Love, Nina meets Black Books: a wry and hilarious account of life in Scotland's biggest second-hand bookshop and the band of eccentrics and book-obsessives who work there
Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, and also one of the organisers of the Wigtown Festival.
Warm, witty and laugh-out-loud funny, this gently meandering tale
of British eccentricity will stay long in the memory. * Daily Mail
*
Funny and fascinating in equal measure - a must for all those of us
who haunt the sepulchres where old books are laid to rest. *
Anthony McGowan *
The Diary Of A Bookseller is warm (unlike Bythell's freezing-cold
shop) and funny, and deserves to become one of those bestsellers
that irritate him so much. -- Jon Dennis * Mail on Sunday *
Peopled with fascinating characters ... a sarcastic reminder of the
struggles of small business ownership, the importance of community
and the frustration of dealing with customers ... occasionally
laugh-out-loud funny. * Herald *
Wonderfully entertaining. * Observer *
Tempted to follow your dream and open a second-hand bookshop? Don't
do anything before you read Shaun Bythell ... second-hand bookshops
are alive because of people like him. * The National *
Utterly compelling and Bythell has a Bennett-like eye for the
amusing eccentricities of ordinary people ... I urge you to buy
this book and please, even at the risk of being insulted or moaned
at, buy it from a real live bookseller. -- Charlotte Heathcote *
Sunday Express *
I tore through the pages, but I was also rather sad when it
finished - I could have read much, much more. Any bibliophiles
should race to get a copy. * Shiny New Books *
A book and bookshop lover's delight. * Red magazine *
Laconic, droll, opinionated and unconvincingly misanthropic ...
Wigtown's Pepys. -- Alan Taylor * Times Literary Supplement *
|
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
