This is exactly what it says it is, a daily diary of a used-book seller in a small Scottish town that's rich in booksellers and hosts an annual boon fair that I hope to be able to attend some day. Bythell is cranky and intolerant of fools, and he takes as his keynote the piece George Orwell, also a cranky type, wrote about his own (disillusioning) experience of working in a bookstore/5(). · The Diary of a Bookseller is the first person account of Shaun Bythell, owner of The Bookshop, a large second hand bookstore in Scotland. Over the course of the year , Bythell keeps a diary of daily encounters from the shop. Some days are better than others. Irritating customers are a /5(K). The diary of a bookseller. [Shaun Bythell] Home. WorldCat Home About WorldCat Help. Search. Search for Library Items Search for Lists Search for Contacts Search for a Library. Create lists, bibliographies and reviews: or Search WorldCat. Find items in libraries near you. Advanced Search Find a .
Shaun Bythell at his bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland. Then he did the same in his hit Diary of a Bookseller, quoted in Bythell's first book, who observed of his own experience of. Shaun Bythell's "The Diary of a Bookseller" is a gem of a book. Bythell, the owner of Scotland's largest second-hand bookstore, gives us this day-by-day account of his life as a bookseller. It's a warm and funny book marked by Bythell's dark, dead-pan humor. He begins by admitting that he fits the stereotype of the "impatient. In Diary of a Bookseller it just feels as though the author is playing a part. The persona just doesn't feel real. It reads more like a fictional account that has been far too influenced by George Orwell's Bookshop Memories. And it's entirely probable that Bythell was a little too influenced by Orwell.
Shaun Bythell. Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland's National Book Town, and also one of the organisers of the Wigtown Festival. This is exactly what it says it is, a daily diary of a used-book seller in a small Scottish town that's rich in booksellers and hosts an annual boon fair that I hope to be able to attend some day. Bythell is cranky and intolerant of fools, and he takes as his keynote the piece George Orwell, also a cranky type, wrote about his own (disillusioning) experience of working in a bookstore. The diary of a bookseller. [Shaun Bythell] Shaun Bythell. Find more information about: ISBN: OCLC Number:
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