Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops

by Shaun Bythell Narrated by Peter Kenny

Overview

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 Have a Blue Cover) to the harried Parents Secretly After Free Childcare and all the way over to the erotica section, where we'll meet The Person Who Is Up to No Good.

Affectionate, sardonic and laugh-out-loud funny, Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops is your indispensable guide to the flora and fauna of your local bookshop.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Praise for Shaun Bythell

“Among the most irascible and amusing bookseller memoirs I've ever read.”—Dwight Garner, New York Times

“…amusing and often cantankerous stories [that] bibliophiles will delight in, and occasionally wince at...”—Publishers Weekly

“Bythell writes with biting humor . . . he is a man on a mission, and year seen through his eyes convinces the reader that is a mission worthy of undertaking.”—Chicago Tribune

“Bythell remains an unwavering correspondent whose daily rambles reminds us of the joy in real bookshops.”—Fine Books & Collections Magazine

“A bookseller in Wigtown, Scotland, recounts a year in his life as a small-town dealer of secondhand books....Irascibly droll and sometimes elegiac, this is an engaging account of bookstore life from the vanishing front lines of the brick-and-mortar retail industry. Bighearted, sobering, and humane.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Bythell’s wicked pen and keen eye for the absurd recall what comic Ricky Gervais might say if he ran a bookshop.”—Wall Street Journal

“Bythell is a skillful writer . . . he creates a full, appealing world populated with colorful characters. The Scottish landscape—geese flying over the salt marsh, the meandering river where he likes to fish—is gorgeous . . . an endearing and thoughtful book.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune

DECEMBER 2020 - AudioFile

Narrator Peter Kenney picks up on the playful undercurrent running throughout this audiobook about bibliophiles who frequent brick-and-mortar bookstores. He becomes the sarcastic yet relatable voice of the author, Scottish bookseller Bythell, whose observations of his customers pepper this memoir of bookselling. Listeners will have fun because Kenney is having fun with the spot-on descriptions of buyers' quirks. Classified as various species, each persona is presented as if providing a description of a scientific specimen. Kenney makes the most of these parodies. He captures Bythell's persona as a lovable, judgmental bookselling busybody through a lively performance presented with the breathlessness of one friend confiding in another. Listeners will be laughing out loud throughout and recognize many of the species being described. M.R. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940173275790
Publisher:	Little, Brown Book Group
Publication date:	11/05/2020
Edition description:	Unabridged

Videos