PRAISE FOR SHAUN BYTHELL - :

Gentle, funny and soothing -- Alan Bennett

Effortlessly charming ... it is soothing to sink once again into the rhythms of Bythell's year - TLS

Utterly compelling ... I urge you to buy this book -- Charlotte Heathcote - Sunday Express

Wonderfully entertaining. - Observer

Warm, witty and laugh-out-loud funny, this gently meandering tale of British eccentricity will stay long in the memory. - Daily Mail

Laconic, droll, opinionated and unconvincingly misanthropic ... Wigtown's Pepys. -- Alan Taylor - Times Literary Supplement

Funny and fascinating in equal measure - a must for all those of us who haunt the sepulchres where old books are laid to rest. - Anthony McGowan

Equal parts preposterous and profound, sure to prove irresistible to fellow bibliophiles - Publishers Weekly

A book and bookshop lover's delight. - Red magazine

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PRAISE FOR SEVEN KINDS OF PEOPLE YOU FIND IN BOOKSHOPS -- :

Crisp and often funny - and Bythell is canny enough to temper his pantomime misanthropy with bursts of sweetness - Guardian

Bythell is having fun and it's infectious ... actually amusing - Scotsman

Any reader finding this book in their stocking on Christmas morning should feel lucky ... contains plenty to amuse - an excellent diversion - Bookmunch

The second volume of memoirs by the Wigtown bookseller Shaun Bythell is as absorbing as the first - London Review of Books

The best parts are irreverently funny and only borderline legal ... he is certainly not self-serving in terms of writing about what he sees as his own failures and weaknesses ... has kept me giggling all week - Scotland on Sunday

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All the ingredients for a gentle human comedy are here, as soothing as a bag of boiled sweets and just as tempting to dip into - Literary Review

The Diary Of A Bookseller is warm (unlike Bythell's freezing-cold shop) and funny, and deserves to become one of those bestsellers that irritate him so much. -- Jon Dennis - Mail on Sunday

Peopled with fascinating characters ... a sarcastic reminder of the struggles of small business ownership, the importance of community and the frustration of dealing with customers ... occasionally laugh-out-loud funny. - Herald

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Tempted to follow your dream and open a second-hand bookshop? Don't do anything before you read Shaun Bythell ... second-hand bookshops are alive because of people like him. - The National

I tore through the pages, but I was also rather sad when it finished - I could have read much, much more. Any bibliophiles should race to get a copy. - Shiny New Books

Bookseller and bestselling author Shaun Bythell is back, and he has some thoughts about that Kindle you bought over lockdown