Confessions of a book seller

At the age of eighteen, Sean Bethel saw the strange library in the coastal Scottish town of Wigtown for the first time. "This library won't last another year," he said then in a careless manner to a friend. After thirteen years, it was still there, and Sean was its owner. He lives and works in the library, whose cracked shelves contain everything from a 16th-century Bible to an original edition of Agatha Christie. A paradise for book lovers? Well, almost... In his honest and humorously bitter and sarcastic diaries, Sean records his daily life in, and around, the library, revealing the life of a bookseller with its successes and failures, how to live as a bookseller in the digital age, how to deal with eccentric customers, with users working according to their mood and often empty pockets. Alongside that, he takes you on buying trips to old farms and auction houses, offering the thrill of discovering unexpected treasures.