{"product_id":"bythell-shaun-the-diary-of-a-bookseller-9781612198163","title":"The Diary of a Bookseller","description":"A WRY AND HILARIOUS ACCOUNT OF LIFE AT A BOOKSHOP IN A REMOTE SCOTTISH VILLAGE\n\u003cp\u003e\"Among the most irascible and amusing bookseller memoirs I've read.\" --Dwight Garner, The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Warm, witty and laugh-out-loud funny...\" --The Daily Mail\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Diary of a Bookseller is Shaun Bythell's funny and fascinating memoir of a year in the life at the helm of The Bookshop, in the small village of Wigtown, Scotland--and of the delightfully odd locals, unusual staff, eccentric customers, and surreal buying trips that make up his life there as he struggles to build his business . . . and be polite . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this wry and hilarious diary, he tells us the trials and tribulations of being a small businessman; 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSlowly, with a mordant wit and keen eye, Bythell is seduced by the growing charm of small-town life, despite--or maybe because of--all the peculiar characters there.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Melville House Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53916955640150,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9781612198163_1.jpg?v=1781884506","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/bythell-shaun-the-diary-of-a-bookseller-9781612198163","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}