The Diary of a Bookseller

Meet Shaun Bythell, bookshop owner, bibliophile and misanthrope extraordinaire. He lives and works in The Bookshop,Wigtown,whose crooked shelves contain anything from a sixteenth-century Bible to a first-edition Agatha Christie. A booklover's paradise ? Well, almost ... In Shaun's honest and wryly hilarious diaries, he reveals the highs and lows of life in the book trade, as he contends with eccentric customers, bin-foraging employees and a perennially empty till.
Along the way he'll take you on buying trips to old estates and auction houses, recommend lost classics - and introduce you to the thrill of the unexpected find.