Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown
Autor Shaun Bythellen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 aug 2023
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 some good ones, right?Filled with the pernickety warmth and humour that has touched readers around the world, stuffed with literary treasures, hidden gems and incunabula, Remainders of the Day is Shaun Bythell's latest entry in his bestselling diary series.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1800812434
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Profile Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recenzii
Gentle, funny and soothing
Effortlessly charming ... it is soothing to sink once again into the rhythms of Bythell's year
Utterly compelling ... I urge you to buy this book
Wonderfully entertaining.
Warm, witty and laugh-out-loud funny, this gently meandering tale of British eccentricity will stay long in the memory.
Laconic, droll, opinionated and unconvincingly misanthropic ... Wigtown's Pepys.
Funny and fascinating in equal measure - a must for all those of us who haunt the sepulchres where old books are laid to rest.
Equal parts preposterous and profound, sure to prove irresistible to fellow bibliophiles
A book and bookshop lover's delight.
PRAISE FOR CONFESSIONS OF A BOOKSELLER
PRAISE FOR SEVEN KINDS OF PEOPLE YOU FIND IN BOOKSHOPS
Crisp and often funny - and Bythell is canny enough to temper his pantomime misanthropy with bursts of sweetness
Bythell is having fun and it's infectious ... actually amusing
Any reader finding this book in their stocking on Christmas morning should feel lucky ... contains plenty to amuse - an excellent diversion
The second volume of memoirs by the Wigtown bookseller Shaun Bythell is as absorbing as the first
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
MORE PRAISE FOR DIARY OF A BOOKSELLER
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
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.
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.
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.