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1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 07 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Peter Kenny. |
| Summary |
This book is the next best thing to visiting your favorite bookstore-bookshop cat not included. Go behind the scenes at The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland, with owner Shaun Bythell. Inside a Georgian townhouse with a stone façade on the Wigtown highroad, jammed with more than 100,000 books and one portly shop cat, Shaun manages the daily ups and downs of running Scotland's largest used bookshop with a sharp eye and even sharper wit. His account of one year behind the counter is something no book lover should miss. "Among the most irascible and amusing bookseller memoirs I've ever read." "A heartwarming love letter to books and bookshops, by an amenable fellow turned antisocial old misanthrope…Brilliant." "A full, appealing world populated with colorful characters. The Scottish landscape…is gorgeous." "Bythell writes with biting humor…He is a man on a mission, and a year seen through his eyes convinces the reader that it is a mission worthy of undertaking." "The author entertains readers with eccentric character portraits and stories of his life in the book trade…Irascibly droll and sometimes elegiac, this is an engaging account of bookstore life…bighearted, sobering, and humane." "Bythell nurtures his curmudgeonly image and pens droll summaries of daily annoyances…Short of a flight to Scotland, Confessions of a Bookseller is the quickest escape to a seaside village where books reign." "An enveloping account from the front lines of an industry in flux." |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Bythell, Shaun.
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Book Shop (Wigtown, Scotland)
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Antiquarian booksellers -- Scotland -- Wigtown -- Biography.
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Booksellers and bookselling -- Scotland.
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| Added Author |
Kenny, Peter.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781094178806 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1094178802 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13647969 |
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