Shaun Bythell

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER "Do you have a list of your books, or do I just have to stare at them?" Confessions of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell offers an irreverently funny and engaging account that had readers giggling all week, according to Scotland on Sunday. Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland. Boasting more than a...

The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll—with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the bookshop cat. You'd think after twenty years, owner Shaun Bythell would be used to the customers by now. Don't get him wrong—there are some good ones among the antiquarian porn-hunters, die-hard Arthurians, people who confuse bookshops...

The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the bookshop cat. You'd think after twenty years, owner Shaun Bythell would be used to the customers by now. Don't get him wrong - there are some good ones among the antiquarian porn-hunters, die-hard Arthurians,...

The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell offers a humorous and insightful glimpse into the world behind the shelves of The Bookshop, Wigtown—Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. Nestled in a beautiful, rural town by the sea, the shop boasts 100,000 books spread over a mile of shelving, complete with twisting corridors and roaring fires. It seems like a paradise for...

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...

Everyone knows who you find in bookshops: people who want to buy books. But, as Shaun Bythell, author of the bestselling Diary of a Bookseller and Confessions of a Bookseller, reveals, that's really only half the story. Join Shaun as he introduces us to seven bookshop characters, from the Person Who Doesn't Know What They Want (But Thinks It Might...