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Informationen zum Autor Shaun Bythell bought The Bookshop in Wigtown on 1 November 2001! and has been running it ever since with an increasing passion for the business! matched only by a sense of despair for its future! and an ill-humour inspired by a decade-and-a-half of dealing with confused customers and surly staff. His internationally-bestselling books The Diary of a Bookseller and Confessions of a Bookseller have been translated into over twenty languages! including Russian! Korean and French. Klappentext A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Irreverently funny ... kept me giggling all week.' Scotland on Sunday"Do you have a list of your books, or do I just have to stare at them?"Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland. With more than a mile of shelving, real log fires in the shop and the sea lapping nearby, the shop should be an idyll for bookworms. Unfortunately, Shaun also has to contend with bizarre requests from people who don't understand what a shop is, home invasions during the Wigtown Book Festival and Granny, his neurotic Italian assistant who likes digging for river mud to make poultices.The Diary of a Bookseller (soon to be a major TV series) introduced us to the joys and frustrations of life lived in books. Sardonic and sympathetic in equal measure, Confessions of a Bookseller will reunite readers with the characters they've come to know and love.More from everyone's favourite misanthropic antiquarian bookseller Zusammenfassung A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Irreverently funny ... kept me giggling all week.' Scotland on Sunday"Do you have a list of your books! or do I just have to stare at them?"Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown! Scotland. With more than a mile of shelving! real log fires in the shop and the sea lapping nearby! the shop should be an idyll for bookworms. Unfortunately! Shaun also has to contend with bizarre requests from people who don't understand what a shop is! home invasions during the Wigtown Book Festival and Granny! his neurotic Italian assistant who likes digging for river mud to make poultices.The Diary of a Bookseller (soon to be a major TV series) introduced us to the joys and frustrations of life lived in books. Sardonic and sympathetic in equal measure! Confessions of a Bookseller will reunite readers with the characters they've come to know and love. ...
