Remainders of the Day, 9781800812437
Paperback
Bookshop owner chronicles eccentric customers with wry humor and literary finds.

Remainders of the Day

More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown

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  • Paperback

    384 pages

  • Release Date

    28 October 2024

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Summary

The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm’s idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the bookshop cat. You’d think after twenty years, owner Shaun Bythell would be used to the customers by now. Don’t get him wrong - there are some good ones among the antiquarian porn-hunters, die-hard Arthurians, people who confuse bookshops for libraries and the toddlers just looking for a nice cosy corner in which to wee. He’s sure there are. There must be s…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781800812437
ISBN-10:1800812434
Author:Shaun Bythell
Publisher:Profile Books Ltd
Imprint:Profile Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:384
Release Date:28 October 2024
Weight:297g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 26mm
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Critics Review

‘PRAISE FOR SHAUN BYTHELL’ - :‘Gentle, funny and soothing’ - Alan Bennett‘Effortlessly charming … it is soothing to sink once again into the rhythms of Bythell’s year’ - TLS‘Utterly compelling … I urge you to buy this book’ - Charlotte Heathcote‘Wonderfully entertaining.’ - Observer

About The Author

Shaun Bythell

Shaun Bythell has run The Bookshop in Wigtown since 1 November 2001. His internationally bestselling books The Diary of a Bookseller, Confessions of a Bookseller and Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops have been translated into over thirty languages. His passion for bookselling is matched only by his sense of despair for its future.

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