Diaries of a book seller

Publisher: Dar Al-Mada Number of pages: 399 At the age of eighteen, Sean Bethel saw for the first time the strange library in the Scottish coastal town of Wigtown. "This library will not 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 first edition of Agatha Christie. A paradise for book lovers? Well, almost... In his honest and funny diaries, bitterly and sarcastically, Sean records his daily life in, and around, the library, revealing the life of the book trade 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 a warm story about a man living for, with, and among books. "Bookseller Diaries" is warm (unlike Sean's cold, frozen library) and funny, and deserves to become a bestseller, a term that he finds quite annoying. Sandy on Sanday: "Absolutely hilarious. Bethel has a keen eye for the quirks of ordinary people... I encourage 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.