

Confessions of a Bookseller
Author: Shaun Bythell
Narrator: Peter Kenny
Unabridged: 9 hr 6 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 04/07/2020
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Memoirs
Author: Shaun Bythell
Narrator: Peter Kenny
Unabridged: 9 hr 6 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 04/07/2020
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Memoirs
Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland, and also one of the organizers of the Wigtown Festival.
Peter Kenny, an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator, is a talented and experienced actor, voice-over artist, singer, musician, and designer, with over twenty-five years of experience working in theater, film, television, and audio. He has achieved great critical acclaim for multicharacter recordings of audiobooks by authors such as Iain Banks, Christopher Priest, and Edmund St Aubyn.
I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. After enjoying the first book from Shaun Bythell, The Diary of a Bookseller, I was excited to read more diary installments from Shaun Bythell's life as a second hand book seller in Wigtown. I wasn't disappointed. This is full of the cha......more
“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