Remainders of the Day
Shaun Bythell
Sachbuch / Biographien, Autobiographien
Beschreibung
'Effortlessly charming ... it is soothing to sink once again into the rhythms of Bythell's year' TLS
The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the bookshop cat. You'd think after twenty years, owner Shaun Bythell would be used to the customers by now.
Don't get him wrong - there are some good ones among the antiquarian erotica-hunters, die-hard Arthurians, people who confuse bookshops for libraries and the toddlers just looking for a nice cosy corner in which to wee. He's sure there are. There must be some good ones, right?
Filled with the pernickety warmth and humour that has touched readers around the world, stuffed with literary treasures, hidden gems and incunabula, Remainders of the Day is Shaun Bythell's latest entry in his bestselling diary series.
Rezensionen
I tore through the pages, but I was also rather sad when it finished - I could have read much, much more. Any bibliophiles should race to get a copy.
<b>PRAISE FOR <i>SEVEN KINDS OF PEOPLE YOU FIND IN BOOKSHOPS</i></b>
Equal parts preposterous and profound, sure to prove irresistible to fellow bibliophiles
A book and bookshop lover'
Wonderfully entertaining.
All the ingredients for a gentle human comedy are here, as soothing as a bag of boiled sweets and just as tempting to dip into
<b>MORE PRAISE FOR<i> CONFESSIONS OF A BOOKSELLER</i></b>
Gentle, funny and soothing
<b>PRAISE FOR <i>CONFESSIONS OF A BOOKSELLER</i></b>
Utterly compelling ... I urge you to buy this book
Peopled with fascinating characters ... a sarcastic reminder of the struggles of small business ownership, the importance of community and the frustration of dealing with customers ... occasionally laugh-out-loud funny.
Laconic, droll, opinionated and unconvincingly misanthropic ... Wigtown'
Bythell is having fun and it'
Effortlessly charming ... it is soothing to sink once again into the rhythms of Bythell'
Funny and fascinating in equal measure - a must for all those of us who haunt the sepulchres where old books are laid to rest.
<i>The Diary Of A Bookseller</i> is warm (unlike Bythell'
Any reader finding this book in their stocking on Christmas morning should feel lucky ... contains plenty to amuse - an excellent diversion
The best parts are irreverently funny and only borderline legal ... he is certainly not self-serving in terms of writing about what he sees as his own failures and weaknesses ... has kept me giggling all week
Tempted to follow your dream and open a second-hand bookshop? Don'
<b>PRAISE FOR SHAUN BYTHELL</b>
Crisp and often funny - and Bythell is canny enough to temper his pantomime misanthropy with bursts of sweetness
<b>MORE PRAISE FOR <i>DIARY OF A BOOKSELLER </i></b>
The second volume of memoirs by the Wigtown bookseller Shaun Bythell is as absorbing as the first
Warm, witty and laugh-out-loud funny, this gently meandering tale of British eccentricity will stay long in the memory.
Kundenbewertungen
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