More from everyone's favourite misanthropic antiquarian bookseller
Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, and also one of the organisers of the Wigtown Festival. His internationally-bestselling first book, The Diary of a Bookseller has been translated into twenty languages, including Russian, Korean and French.
The second volume of memoirs by the Wigtown bookseller Shaun
Bythell is as absorbing as the first
*London Review of Books*
Bythell has a good ear for the absurd and a mundane telemarketing
call becomes comedy gold ... For all Bythell's self-flagellation,
he comes across as a generous, largely genial figure. It is hard to
go for more than a few pages without finding him cooking for
staying guests or drinking with friends
until the small hours.
*Times*
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.
*Scotland on Sunday*
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.
*Literary Review*
Written with caustic wit...a diverting and congenial read.
*Bookmunch*
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