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It is a wonder, reading some of Shaun Bythell’s descriptions of the customers in his bookshop, that anyone dares cross its threshold at all. Here we are introduced, for example, to one of the shop’s ...

Caroline Sanderson is a non-fiction writer, editor and books journalist. Her books include a travel narrative, A Rambling Fancy: in the F ...more Scotland’s largest second-hand bookshop is the ...

In the epilogue of “Remainders of the Day” — Shaun Bythell’s third diary about owning The Bookshop in Wigstown, Scotland — Bythell tells us that he is married now, with one child and another on the ...

Bythell (The Diary of a Bookseller) returns with another rollicking account of running The Bookshop, Scotland’s second-largest used bookstore. Bythell records his interactions with his colorful ...

SHAUN Bythell runs a second-hand bookshop in Wigtown in the southwest of Scotland and I'm not surprised that he admits to being a bit of a curmudgeon. Most independent booksellers are, in my ...

The curmudgeonly bookseller Bernard Black, as played by Dylan Moran in the TV comedy series Black Books, has long been the role model for misanthropists with a desire to open a bookshop. Bernard knows ...

In the epilogue of "Remainders of the Day" — Shaun Bythell's third diary about owning The Bookshop in Wigstown, Scotland — Bythell tells us that he is married now, with one child and another on the ...

A heart-warming love letter to books and bookshops, by an amenable fellow turned antisocial old misanthrope “I was in here two years ago and you had a book by Roger Penrose. Do you know what happened ...

For the last 20 years, Shaun Bythell has owned and run The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland. Not only is this Scotland’s largest secondhand bookshop, it is also the oldest in a city that has been ...

If you like your bookstores warm and cozy and your booksellers chatty, you might not like Shaun Bythell or his shop. You might, however, like his memoir, which is entertaining and dryly humorous, ...