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orlok · 02-12-2018, 10:58 AM

Recently started The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell. It's written by the owner of The Bookshop situated in Wigtown, Scotland, about his experiences servicing the reading public. Appropriately I'm reading this as a pbook, which I don't often do.

Wigtown has become a second-hand bookshop haven, much like Hay-on-Wye (in the County of Powys on the England/Wales border), and they now hold regular literary festivals, and have revitalised the town's fortunes.

Full of amusing anecdotes (for example, his part-time assistant who is a Jehova's Witness keeps putting The Origin of the Species in the fiction section, so he retaliates by putting the Bible amongst the mystery novels) I find myself laughing out loud at frequent intervals.

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orlok Close to the Edit! Posts: 9,797 Karma: 267994408 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis, Amazon Fire 8", Kindle 6"	Recently started The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell. It's written by the owner of The Bookshop situated in Wigtown, Scotland, about his experiences servicing the reading public. Appropriately I'm reading this as a pbook, which I don't often do. Wigtown has become a second-hand bookshop haven, much like Hay-on-Wye (in the County of Powys on the England/Wales border), and they now hold regular literary festivals, and have revitalised the town's fortunes. Full of amusing anecdotes (for example, his part-time assistant who is a Jehova's Witness keeps putting The Origin of the Species in the fiction section, so he retaliates by putting the Bible amongst the mystery novels) I find myself laughing out loud at frequent intervals. Last edited by orlok; 02-12-2018 at 11:08 AM.