A cantankerously funny view of books and the people who love them. It does take all kinds and through the misanthropic eyes of a very grumpy bookseller, we see them all-from the "Person Who Doesn't Know What They Want (But Thinks It Might Have a Blue Cover)" to the "Parents Secretly A...
In twenty years behind the till in The Bookshop, Wigtown, Shaun Bythell has met pretty much every kind of customer there is - from the charming, erudite and deep-pocketed to the eccentric, flatulent and possibly larcenous.
In twenty years behind the till in The Bookshop, Wigtown, Shaun Bythell has met pretty much every kind of customer there is - from the charming, erudite and deep-pocketed to the eccentric, flatulent and possibly larcenous.
Za dvadcat' let, provedennyh za prilavkom knizhnogo magazina v shotlandskom Uigtaune, SHonu Bajtellu dovelos' ne tol'ko pogruzit'sya v mir bukinisticheskih izdanij i stat' aktivnym uchastnikom kul'turnoj zhizni goroda i strany v celom, no i povstrechat'sya s samymi raznymi pokupatelyami — ot blagodu...
Za dvadcat' let, provedennyh za prilavkom knizhnogo magazina v shotlandskom Uigtaune, SHonu Bajtellu dovelos' ne tol'ko pogruzit'sya v mir bukinisticheskih izdanij i stat' aktivnym uchastnikom kul'turnoj zhizni goroda i strany v celom, no i povstrechat'sya s samymi raznymi pokupatelyami - ot blagodu...
