Remainders of the Day (Hardback)

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Shaun Bythell

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Bookseller and bestselling author Shaun Bythell is back, and he has some thoughts about that Kindle you bought over lockdown

A Waterstones 'Best Books of 2022: Biography'

The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the bookshop cat. You'd think after twenty years, owner Shaun Bythell would be used to the customers by now.

Don't get him wrong - there are some good ones among the antiquarian erotica-hunters, die-hard Arthurians, people who confuse bookshops for libraries and the toddlers just looking for a nice cosy corner in which to wee. He's sure there are. There must be some good ones, right?

Filled with the pernickety warmth and humour that has touched readers around the world, stuffed with literary treasures, hidden gems and incunabula, Remainders of the Day is Shaun Bythell's latest entry in his bestselling diary series.

Publication date: 01/09/2022

£16.99

ISBN: 9781800812420

Imprint: Profile Books

Subject: Biography & Memoir, Humour & Gift, Reference

Remainders of the Day (Ebook)

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'Effortlessly charming ... it is soothing to sink once again into the rhythms of Bythell's year' TLS

The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the bookshop cat. You'd think after twenty years, owner Shaun Bythell would be used to the customers by now.

Don't get him wrong - there are some good ones among the antiquarian erotica-hunters, die-hard Arthurians, people who confuse bookshops for libraries and the toddlers just looking for a nice cosy corner in which to wee. He's sure there are. There must be some good ones, right?

Filled with the pernickety warmth and humour that has touched readers around the world, stuffed with literary treasures, hidden gems and incunabula, Remainders of the Day is Shaun Bythell's latest entry in his bestselling diary series.

Publication date: 01/09/2022

£9.99

ISBN: 9781800812444

ISBN 10 / ASIN: B09RXQ3PF5

Imprint: Profile Books

Subject: Biography & Memoir, Humour & Gift, Reference

Remainders of the Day (Audiobook)

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Bookseller and bestselling author Shaun Bythell is back, and he has some thoughts about that Kindle you bought over lockdown

A Waterstones 'Best Books of 2022: Biography'

The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll – with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the bookshop cat. You'd think after twenty years, owner Shaun Bythell would be used to the customers by now.

Don't get him wrong – there are some good ones among the antiquarian erotica-hunters, die-hard Arthurians, people who confuse bookshops for libraries and the toddlers just looking for a nice cosy corner in which to wee. He's sure there are. There must be some good ones, right?

Filled with the pernickety warmth and humour that has touched readers around the world, stuffed with literary treasures, hidden gems and incunabula, Remainders of the Day is Shaun Bythell's latest entry in his bestselling diary series.

Publication date: 01/09/2022

£24.99

ISBN: 9781800812604

ISBN 10 / ASIN: B0B6Q4B4JF

Imprint: Profile Books

Subject: Biography & Memoir, Humour & Gift, Reference

Read by: Peter Kenny

Remainders of the Day (Paperback)

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PRAISE FOR SHAUN BYTHELL

Bookseller and bestselling author Shaun Bythell is back, and he has some thoughts about that Kindle you bought over lockdown

Publication date: 03/08/2023

£10.99

ISBN: 9781800812437

Imprint: Profile Books

Subject: Biography & Memoir, Humour & Gift, Reference

Reviews for Remainders of the Day

'PRAISE FOR SHAUN BYTHELL'

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'Gentle, funny and soothing'

Alan Bennett 

'Effortlessly charming ... it is soothing to sink once again into the rhythms of Bythell's year'

 TLS

'Utterly compelling ... I urge you to buy this book'

Charlotte Heathcote Sunday Express

'Wonderfully entertaining.'

 Observer

'Warm, witty and laugh-out-loud funny, this gently meandering tale of British eccentricity will stay long in the memory.'

 Daily Mail

'Laconic, droll, opinionated and unconvincingly misanthropic ... Wigtown's Pepys.'

Alan Taylor Times Literary Supplement

'Funny and fascinating in equal measure - a must for all those of us who haunt the sepulchres where old books are laid to rest.'

 Anthony McGowan

'Equal parts preposterous and profound, sure to prove irresistible to fellow bibliophiles'

 Publishers Weekly

'A book and bookshop lover's delight.'

 Red magazine

'PRAISE FOR CONFESSIONS OF A BOOKSELLER'

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'PRAISE FOR SEVEN KINDS OF PEOPLE YOU FIND IN BOOKSHOPS'

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'Crisp and often funny - and Bythell is canny enough to temper his pantomime misanthropy with bursts of sweetness'

 Guardian

'Bythell is having fun and it's infectious ... actually amusing'

 Scotsman

'Any reader finding this book in their stocking on Christmas morning should feel lucky ... contains plenty to amuse - an excellent diversion'

 Bookmunch

'The second volume of memoirs by the Wigtown bookseller Shaun Bythell is as absorbing as the first'

 London Review of Books

'The best parts are irreverently funny and only borderline legal ... he is certainly not self-serving in terms of writing about what he sees as his own failures and weaknesses ... has kept me giggling all week'

 Scotland on Sunday

'MORE PRAISE FOR DIARY OF A BOOKSELLER '

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'All the ingredients for a gentle human comedy are here, as soothing as a bag of boiled sweets and just as tempting to dip into'

 Literary Review

'The Diary Of A Bookseller is warm (unlike Bythell's freezing-cold shop) and funny, and deserves to become one of those bestsellers that irritate him so much.'

Jon Dennis Mail on Sunday

'Peopled with fascinating characters ... a sarcastic reminder of the struggles of small business ownership, the importance of community and the frustration of dealing with customers ... occasionally laugh-out-loud funny.'

 Herald

'MORE PRAISE FOR CONFESSIONS OF A BOOKSELLER'

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'Tempted to follow your dream and open a second-hand bookshop? Don't do anything before you read Shaun Bythell ... second-hand bookshops are alive because of people like him.'

 The National

'I tore through the pages, but I was also rather sad when it finished - I could have read much, much more. Any bibliophiles should race to get a copy.'

 Shiny New Books

Shaun Bythell

Shaun Bythell

Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, and also one of the organisers of the Wigtown Festival. His books about life running Scotland's largest second hand bookshop have been international bestsellers and translated into more than thirty languages.

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