Confessions of a Bookseller

The second volume of memoirs by the Wigtown bookseller Shaun Bythell is as absorbing as the first – Alan Bennett * 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 friendsuntil the small hours. – Philip Boakes * 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. – Stuart Kelly * 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. – Adam Douglas * Literary Review *Written with caustic wit…a diverting and congenial read. – Jackie Law * Bookmunch *

Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, and also one of the organisers of the Wigtown Festival. He is the author of two bestselling volumes of diaries: The Diary of a Bookseller and follow-up, Confessions of a Bookseller. His books have been translated into Russia, Italian, Icelandic and Korean, among many other languages.