The Diary of a Bookseller

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    Характеристика Данни
    SKU: 9781781258637
    ISBN:

    9781781258637

    Автор:

    Shaun Bythell

    Година на издаване: 2018
    Вид корица: Мека
    Език: Английски
    Издателство:

    Profile Books Ltd

    Брой страници: 320
    Характеристика Данни
    Възраст до: 99
    Възраст от: 20
    Националност автор: Шотландия
    Пол: Жена, Мъж
    Размер см: 13 х 20 х 2 см.
    Тегло кг: 0,262
    Тема: Book lovers

    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.

    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.

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