Book Review: The diary of a bookseller - S. Bythell

This is a diary, a memoir, so it is not very easy to review it.
I must say though that it really really made me want to open my own bookshop! despite all the awkard customers described in here and all the hard work to survive as a business, I still dream of becoming a bookseller myself on day. Fascinating!
It is not the most amusing book I read about being a bookseller (Jen Campbell's ones are the ones that make you laugh out loud), it is a pleasant and interesting read.
And the curiosity of visiting Wigtown and The bookshop is now very high.

Overall rating:  7     Plot: NA     Writing style: 7      Cover:  10

Title: The Diary of a Bookseller

Author: Shaun Bythell
Publisher: Profile Books
Pages: 384
Publication year: 2018

The Plot:

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.

The Author:
Shaun runs Wigtown’s The Bookshop, the largest second-hand bookshop in Scotland set in its only officially designated ‘National Book Town’. When not working amongst The Bookshop’s mile of shelving, Shaun’s hobbies include eavesdropping on customers, uploading book-themed re-workings of Sugarhill Gang songs to YouTube and shooting Amazon Kindles in the wild.