- Book Shop (Wigtown, Scotland), Booksellers and bookselling, Biography, Antiquarian booksellers
"The funny and fascinating memoir of Bythell's experiences at the helm of The Bookshop, Scotland's largest second hand bookstore--and the delightfully unusual staff members, eccentric customers, odd townsfolk and surreal buying trips that make up his life there"--
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Warm, classical in form, effortless and comic.
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Shaun Bythell
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 314
- Publisher
- Melville House, Profile Books Ltd, Melville House Publishing
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- Polish, English
- ISBN
- 9781612198163
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“Czy chciałbym wykonywać zawód księgarza? Ogólnie rzecz biorąc, choć pracodawca traktuje mnie dobrze, awksięgarni spędziłem sporo miłych chwil– nie.”
Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, and also one of the organisers of the Wigtown Festival. His books about life running Scotland's largest second hand bookshop have been international bestsellers and translated into many languages. (Profile Books)
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