Laconic, droll, opinionated and unconvincingly misanthropic ... Wigtown's Pepys.
A book and bookshop lover's delight.
The second volume of memoirs by the Wigtown bookseller Shaun Bythell is as absorbing as the first
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.
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.
Funny and fascinating in equal measure - a must for all those of us who haunt the sepulchres where old books are laid to rest.
Gentle, funny and soothing
Any reader finding this book in their stocking on Christmas morning should feel lucky ... contains plenty to amuse - an excellent diversion
Equal parts preposterous and profound, sure to prove irresistible to fellow bibliophiles
The best parts are irreverently funny and only borderline legal ... he is certainly not self-serving in terms of writing about what he sees as his own failures and weaknesses ... has kept me giggling all week
Utterly compelling ... I urge you to buy this book
Effortlessly charming ... it is soothing to sink once again into the rhythms of Bythell's year
All the ingredients for a gentle human comedy are here, as soothing as a bag of boiled sweets and just as tempting to dip into
Bythell is having fun and it's infectious ... actually amusing
Crisp and often funny - and Bythell is canny enough to temper his pantomime misanthropy with bursts of sweetness
Wonderfully entertaining.
Warm, witty and laugh-out-loud funny, this gently meandering tale of British eccentricity will stay long in the memory.
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.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.9.2022 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen | |
| Schlagworte | antiquarian • antiquarian bookseller • bookselling • cathy rentzenbrink dear reader • confessions of a bookseller • diary of a bookseller • Diary of A Nobody • Dylan moran black books • Humour • Literary • martin latham • Memoirs • secondhand bookselling • seven kinds of people you find in bookshops • Small Town • small town life • weird things customers say • wigtown |
| ISBN-10 | 1-80081-244-2 / 1800812442 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-80081-244-4 / 9781800812444 |
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