The next best thing to visiting your favorite bookstore (bookshop cat not included). -- The Wall Street Journal. an endearing and thoughtful book.-- Minneapolis Star Tribune Bythell\'s wicked pen and keen eye for the absurd recall what comic Ricky Gervais might say if he ran a bookshop. . .
The Scottish landscape--geese flying over the salt marsh, the meandering river where he likes to fish--is gorgeous .
A full, appealing world populated with colorful characters.
His account of one year behind the counter is something no book lover should miss.
Inside a stone-faced Georgian townhouse 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.
Go behind the scenes at The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland with owner (and author) Shaun Bythell.
The next best thing to visiting your favorite bookstore (bookshop cat not included)
