Confessions of a Bookseller

Hyllad och humoristisk succémemoar om ett år i en bokhandel. I den idylliska småstaden Wigtown driver Shaun Bythell The Bookshop, Skottlands största bokhandel för begagnade böcker. Till hans butik – där över 100 000 böcker trängs i en lokal med vindlande korridorer och sprakande eldstäder – färdas mängder av bokläsare från när och  fjärran för […]

‘A lovely, thoughtful little book about the intelligence of cows.’ –James Rebanks, author of The Shepherd’s Life Cows are as varied as people. They can be highly intelligent or slow to understand, vain, considerate, proud, shy or inventive. Although much of a cow’s day is spent eating, they always find time for extra-curricular activities such […]

A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor. A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country’s civil war. A man who loves to bowl […]

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 […]