Author(s): Bythell, Shaun,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 25/07/2018,
Pagination: 320 pages, Integrated black and white photographs,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Profile Books Ltd,
Published By: Profile Books Ltd,
Book Classification: Autobiography: general, Diaries & journals
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781781258637

Description:
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.