Confessions of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell audiobook

Confessions of a Bookseller

By Shaun Bythell
Read by Peter Kenny

Blackstone Publishing 9781567926644

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • 4 Formats: CD
  • 4 Formats: Library CD
  • 4 Formats: MP3 CD
  • 4 Formats: Playaway

  • ISBN: 9781094178745

  • ISBN: 9781094178738

  • ISBN: 9781094178752

  • ISBN: 9781665011556

Runtime: 9.12 Hours
Category: Nonfiction/Biography & Autobiography
Audience: Adult
Language: English
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Summary

Summary

A Washington Post Pick

 A Kirkus Reviews Pick of Five New Books

This book is the next best thing to visiting your favorite bookstore—bookshop cat not included.

Go behind the scenes at The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland, with owner Shaun Bythell. Inside a Georgian townhouse with a stone façade on the Wigtown highroad, jammed with more than 100,000 books and one portly shop cat, Shaun manages the daily ups and downs of running Scotland’s largest used bookshop with a sharp eye and even sharper wit. His account of one year behind the counter is something no book lover should miss.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“Among the most irascible and amusing bookseller memoirs I’ve ever read.” —New York Times
“A heartwarming love letter to books and bookshops, by an amenable fellow turned antisocial old misanthrope.” —The Guardian (London)
“Bythell writes with biting humor.” —Chicago Tribune
“A full, appealing world populated with colorful characters. The Scottish landscape…is gorgeous.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Irascibly droll and sometimes elegiac, this is an engaging account of bookstore life…bighearted, sobering, and humane.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Confessions of a Bookseller is the quickest escape to a seaside village where books reign.” —Shelf Awareness (starred review)
“Kenney communicates the social interactions, as well as Bythell’s often ironic declarations, with judicious pacing…Anyone who has been to Wigtown will find this listen thoroughly accurate; anyone who likes books will find it a pleasing virtual visit.” —AudioFile

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Author

Author Bio: Shaun Bythell

Author Bio: Shaun Bythell

Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop, the largest second-hand bookshop in Scotland. When not working amongst The Bookshop’s mile of shelving, Shaun’s hobbies include eavesdropping on customers, uploading book-themed reworkings of Sugarhill Gang songs to YouTube and shooting Amazon Kindles in the wild. He lives in Wigtown, Scotland.

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Available Formats : CD, Library CD, MP3 CD, Playaway
Category: Nonfiction/Biography & Autobiography
Runtime: 9.12
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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