The Bookseller's Diary

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At the age of eighteen, Sean Bethel first saw the quirky bookstore in the Scottish seaside town of Wigtown. “That bookstore won’t be around for another year,” he remarked absently to a friend. Thirteen years later, it was still there, and Sean owned it. He lived and worked in the bookstore, whose crumbling shelves held everything from a sixteenth-century Bible to a first edition of Agatha Christie. A book lover’s paradise? Well, almost… In his honest, bitterly funny, and ironic diary, Sean chronicles his daily life in and around the bookstore, revealing the highs and lows of the book trade, how to live as a bookseller in the digital age, how to deal with eccentric customers, moody employees, and a mostly empty cash drawer. He also takes you on buying trips to old estates and auction houses, offering the thrill of unexpected find-and-find encounters. “Diary of a Bookseller” is an intimate story of a man who lives for, with, and among books. *Diary of a Bookseller* is warm (unlike Sean's cold, frosty bookstore) and funny, and deserves to be a bestseller, a term that deeply offends him. Mail on Sunday: "Absolutely mind-blowing. Bethel has a keen eye for the eccentricities of ordinary people... I urge you to buy this book and please, even at the risk of being insulted or complained about, buy it from a bookseller of flesh and blood." - Sunday Express