SHAUN BYTHELL

Shaun Bythell regenta The Bookshop, la librería de viejo más grande de Escocia. Contiene 100.000 volúmenes, dos kilómetros de estanterías, pasillos laberínticos y acogedoras chimeneas, todo ello en un hermoso pueblo situado a orillas del mar. ¿El paraíso de un bibliófilo, verdad? Bueno, no exactamente… «Cuando compré The Bookshop en 2001 tenía una vaga idea sobre el funcionamiento de una librería. Ninguna de mis expectativas se cumplió. A diario me sorprenden las preguntas que formulan los clientes. Por la tienda desfila el más amplio espectro de la especie humana: unos regatean, otros recomiendan libros; unos son espectacularmente groseros, otros te cuentan su vida o quieren conocer la tuya… En este diario se narran algunos de los encuentros más memorables.»

From the Sunday Times Bestselling Author In twenty years behind the till in The Bookshop Wigtown Shaun Bythell has met pretty much every kind of customer there is from the charming erudite and deep pocketed to the eccentric flatulent and possibly larcenous In Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops he distils the essence of his experience into a warm witty and quirky taxonomy of the book loving public So step inside to meet the crafty Antiquarian the shy and retiring Erotica Browser and gormless yet strangely likeable shop assistant Student Hugo along with much loved bookseller favourites like the passionate Sci Fi Fan the voracious Railway Collector and the ever elusive Perfect Customer

Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover's paradise? Well, almost ... In these wry and hilarious diaries, Shaun provides an inside look at the trials and tribulations of life in the book trade, from struggles with eccentric customers to wrangles with his own staff, who include the ski-suit-wearing, bin-foraging Nicky. He takes us with him on buying trips to old estates and auction houses, recommends books (both lost classics and new discoveries), introduces us to the thrill of the unexpected find, and evokes the rhythms and charms of small-town life, always with a sharp and sympathetic eye.

Shaun Bythell, propietari de la llibreria de segona ma The Book Shop, la mes gran d’Escocia, retrata en aquest diari hilarant l’activitat de l’establiment al llarg d’un any, centrant-se en especial en els seus excentrics treballadors i en els seus no menys sorprenents clients. Pero, encara que a totes les pagines es respira humor escoces, aquest diari vol ser sobretot una reivindicacio del comerç local davant la força incommensurable dels gegants del capitalisme actual.