Confessions of a Bookseller, Shaun Bythell
Confessions of a Bookseller, Shaun Bythell
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Confessions of a Bookseller

Author: Shaun Bythell

Narrator: Peter Kenny

Unabridged: 9 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/07/2020

Synopsis

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.

About Shaun Bythell

Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland, and also one of the organizers of the Wigtown Festival.

About Peter Kenny

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sara

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

Quotes

“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

Awards

  • Washington Post Pick
  • Kirkus Reviews Pick
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