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.
*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 ... Bythell is a true believer, who makes
a passionate case for the importance of books
*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.
*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*
Laconic, droll, opinionated and unconvincingly misanthropic ...
Wigtown's Pepys.
*Times Literary Supplement*
So sardonically funny it could be designed to de-romance the book
trade
*The Times*
I was delightedly reading - and I thoroughly recommend to you - a
book I was given: The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell, the
owner of a second-hand bookshop in Wigtown. On the cover, the blurb
says it is "funny and fascinating in equal measure" and I quote
that because I couldn't put it better myself.
*Eddie Mair*
Gentle, ... funny and immensely soothing
*Alan Bennett*
A brilliant, funny and recommended book
*Mike Scott, The Waterboys*
Charming and witty and wicked
*Jen Campbell*
I generally dislike books about bookselling because they're treacly
and self-satisfied, but Shaun Bythell's subversive The Diary of a
Bookseller is an antidote.
*New York Times (a New York Times Book of the Year)*
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