Shaun Bythell Livres

Bookseller and bestselling author Shaun Bythell is back, and he has some thoughts about that Kindle you bought over lockdown

Tricky customers, rude staff and everyone's favourite misanthropic bookseller: it's the second volume of the Sunday Times bestselling bookshop diaries, now available in paperback.

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 '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) '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.' (Charlotte Heathcote Sunday Express)Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover's paradise? Well, almost ... In these wry and hilarious diaries, Shaun provides an inside look at the trials and tribulations of life in the book trade, from struggles with eccentric customers to wrangles with his own staff, who include the ski-suit-wearing, bin-foraging Nicky. He takes us with him on buying trips to old estates and auction houses, recommends books (both lost classics and new discoveries), introduces us to the thrill of the unexpected find, and evokes the rhythms and charms of small-town life, always with a sharp and sympathetic eye.

Everyone knows who you find in bookshops: people who want to buy books. But, as Shaun Bythell, author of the bestselling Diary of a Bookseller and Confessions of a Bookseller, reveals, that's really only half the story. Join Shaun as he introduces us to seven bookshop characters, from the Person Who Doesn't Know What They Want (But Thinks It Might Have a Blue Cover) to the harried Parents Secretly After Free Childcare and all the way over to the erotica section, where we'll meet The Person Who Is Up to No Good. Affectionate, sardonic and laugh-out-loud funny, Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops is your indispensable guide to the flora and fauna of your local bookshop

From behind the counter, Shaun Bythell catalogs the customers who roam his shop in Wigtown, Scotland. You'll meet the Expert (with subspecies such the Bore and the Helpful Person) and the Loiterer (including the Erotica. Browser and the Self-Published Author). Beware of The Not-So-Silent Traveller (especially the Whistler, Hummer, Farter, and Tutter), and the Family Historian (generally Americans visiting in search of their clan's roots). Two bonus sections include portraits, of the hardworking but often eccentric Staff, as well as the ever-elusive but always welcome Perfect Customer. Booklovers are bound to recognize the colorful characters in these pages-some might even recognize themselves!-as Bythell once again proves he's the funniest sell-and-tell observer in the world of books. Book jacket.

Dal cliente che entra per complimentarsi dell’esposizione in vetrina, senza accorgersi che le pentole servono a raccogliere la perdita d’acqua dal tetto, alla vecchietta che chiama periodicamente chiedendo i titoli più assurdi, alle mille, tenere vicende di quanti decidono di disfarsi dei libri di una vita. The Book Shop, la libreria che Shaun Bythell contro ogni buonsenso ha deciso di prendere in gestione, è diventata un crocevia di storie e il cuore di Wigtown, villaggio scozzese di poche anime. Con puntuta ironia, Shaun racconta i battibecchi quotidiani con la sua unica impiegata perennemente in tuta da sci, e le battaglie, tutte perse, contro Amazon. La sua è l’esistenza dolce e amara di un libraio che non intende mollare.