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 in a careless manner to a friend. Thirteen years later, it was still there, and Sean was its owner. He lives and works in the library, whose crumbling shelves contain everything from a 16th-century Bible to an early edition of Agatha Christie. A paradise for a book lover? 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 finds. "Bookseller Diaries" is an intimate story about a man living for, with, and among books. The "Bookseller Diaries" is warm (unlike Sean's cold, frozen library) and funny, and deserves to become one of the bestsellers, a term that annoys him greatly. Sandy on Sandy: "Absolutely crushing. Bethel has a keen eye for the eccentricities of ordinary people... I urge you to buy this book and please, even at the risk of being insulted or complained about, buy it from a bookseller of flesh and blood." Sandy Express.