Favorite quote: “I am putting a mental jigsaw together of what a hobbit looks like, based on a composite of every customer I have ever sold a copy to.”
From the publisher: When Shaun Bythell first thought of taking over the bookstore in the remote Scottish village of Wigtown, it seemed like a great idea: The Book Shop is Scotlands largest second hand store with over 100,000 books in a glorious old house with twisting corridors and roaring fireplaces, set in a tiny, beautiful town by the sea. It seemed like a book-lovers paradise…
Until Bythell did indeed buy the store.
In this wry and hilarious diary he tells us what happened next - the trials and tribulations of being a small business man; of learning that customers can be, um, eccentric; and of wrangling with his own staff of oddballs. And perhaps none are quirkier than the charmingly cantankerous bookseller Bythell himself turns out to be.
