Diaries of a book seller

At the age of eighteen, Sean Bethel saw the strange library in the Scottish coastal town of Wigtown for the first time. "This library won't last another year," he said then casually to a friend. Thirteen years later, 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 a book lover? Well, almost... In his honest and funny diaries, bitterly and sarcastically humorous, 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 acting 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 finds. "Bookseller Diaries" is an intimate story about a man living for, with, and among books.