Confessions of a Bookseller

Name: Confessions of a Bookseller
Brand: Hachette UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Shaun Bythell
ISBN: 9781782836308

Author: Shaun Bythell

Narrator: Peter Kenny

Unabridged: 9 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Profile Audio

Published: 08/29/2019

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Memoirs

Synopsis

"Do you have a list of your books, or do I just have to stare at them?"

Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland. With more than a mile of shelving, real log fires in the shop and the sea lapping nearby, the shop should be an idyll for bookworms.

Unfortunately, Shaun also has to contend with bizarre requests from people who don't understand what a shop is, home invasions during the Wigtown Book Festival and Granny, his neurotic Italian assistant who likes digging for river mud to make poultices.

The Diary of a Bookseller (soon to be a major TV series) introduced us to the joys and frustrations of life lived in books. Sardonic and sympathetic in equal measure, Confessions of a Bookseller will reunite readers with the characters they've come to know and love.

About Shaun Bythell

Shaun Bythell bought The Bookshop in Wigtown on 1 November 2001, and has been running it ever since with an increasing passion for the business, matched only by a sense of despair for its future, and an ill-humour inspired by almost two decades ofdealing with confused customers and surly staff. His internationally-bestselling books The Diary of a Bookseller and Confessions of a Bookseller have been translated into over twenty languages, including Russian, Korean and French.

About Peter Kenny

Thirty years working as an actor, musician, designer and director in Theatre and Radio; Peter has worked for: A&BC Theatre Co. The Royal Shakespeare Co. and The BBC Radio Drama Co. An award winning narrator of audio-books he has recorded over 100 titles, everything from: Iain M. Banks, Neil Gaiman, and Andrzej Sapkowski to Claire North, Jonas Jonasson Jeremy Vine and Paul O'Grady. He has worked with many of the major publishing houses including, Little Brown, Orion/Gollancz, Hachette, Harper, Hodder, Pan MacMillan, ISIS, RNIB, Podium and Penguin. Visit www.peterkenny.com @PeterKennyVoice

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sara on November 12, 2019

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

Goodreads review by JimZ on September 14, 2020

I enjoyed this book and would especially recommend it for those who read and liked The Diary of a Bookseller by the same author. He owns the second largest second-hand bookstore in Scotland (in Wigtown, situated in the southwest of Scotland). I could have sworn Nicky left for another job by the end o......more