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Shaun Bythell
Kirjat ja teokset yhdessä paikassa: 20 kirjaa, julkaisuja vuosilta 2018–2026, suosituimpiin kuuluu Remainders of the Day. Vertaile teosten hintoja ja tarkista saatavuus suomalaisista kirjakaupoista.
20 kirjaa
Kirjojen julkaisuvuodet: 2018–2026.
Remainders of the Day
Shaun Bythell
David R. Godine Publisher
2025
nidottu
Halvin toimitettuna 22,90 €
New from the author of Confessions of a Bookseller and Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops, another hilariously grumpy year behind the counter at The Bookshop. Though diaries of daily life, Shaun Bythell has created an endearing and cozy world for booklovers, a warm and welcome memoir of a life in books. The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland is a book lover's paradise, with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the portly bookshop cat. You'd think that after twenty years, owner Shaun Bythell would be used to his quirky customers by now. Don't get him wrong, there are some good ones among the antiquarian porn-hunters, die-hard train book lovers, people who confuse bookshops for libraries, and the toddlers just looking for a nice cozy corner in which to wee. He's sure there are some good ones. There must be . . . Filled with the pernickety warmth and humor that has touched readers around the world, stuffed with literary treasures, hidden gems, and incunabula, Remainders of the Day is a warm and welcome memoir of a life in books. If you're new to Shaun Bythell's bestselling series, this is a great place to start. If you're one of Bythell's legion of fans, welcome back to The Bookshop.
Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
Shaun Bythell
Profile Books Ltd
2024
pokkari
Halvin toimitettuna 15,90 €
**From the Sunday Times Bestselling Author** In twenty years behind the till in The Bookshop, Wigtown, Shaun Bythell has met pretty much every kind of customer there is - from the charming, erudite and deep-pocketed to the eccentric, flatulent and possibly larcenous. In Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops he distils the essence of his experience into a warm, witty and quirky taxonomy of the book-loving public. So, step inside to meet the crafty Antiquarian, the shy and retiring Erotica Browser and gormless yet strangely likeable shop assistant Student Hugo - along with much loved bookseller favourites like the passionate Sci-Fi Fan, the voracious Railway Collector and the ever-elusive Perfect Customer.
New from the author of Confessions of a Bookseller and Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops, another hilariously grumpy year behind the counter at The Bookshop. Though diaries of daily life, Shaun Bythell has created an endearing and cozy world for booklovers, a warm and welcome memoir of a life in books. The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland is a book lover's paradise, with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the portly bookshop cat. You'd think that after twenty years, owner Shaun Bythell would be used to his quirky customers by now. Don't get him wrong, there are some good ones among the antiquarian porn-hunters, die-hard train book lovers, people who confuse bookshops for libraries, and the toddlers just looking for a nice cozy corner in which to wee. He's sure there are some good ones. There must be . . . Filled with the pernickety warmth and humor that has touched readers around the world, stuffed with literary treasures, hidden gems, and incunabula, Remainders of the Day is a warm and welcome memoir of a life in books. If you're new to Shaun Bythell's bestselling series, this is a great place to start. If you're one of Bythell's legion of fans, welcome back to The Bookshop.
Bookseller and bestselling author Shaun Bythell is back, and he has some thoughts about that Kindle you bought over lockdown.
Sju sorters människor du träffar på i en bokhandel
Shaun Bythell
Natur Kultur Allmänlitteratur
2021
sidottu
"Underhållande guide till den lokala bokhandelns typiska kunder." DIAlla vet vilka man träffar i en bokhandel: människor som vill köpa böcker. Men, som Shaun Bythell avslöjar är det faktiskt bara halva sanningen. Shaun Bythell är bokhandlaren som helst inte skulle vilja ha några kunder. Lyckligtvis är det ganska få som kommer till hans butik i den lilla staden Wigtown i sydvästra Skottland, men de som kommer är fullt tillräckliga, och lätta att kategorisera. I boken möter vi bland annat kunden som inte vet vad hon vill ha (men att det ska ha ett blått omslag) och de stressade föräldrarna på jakt efter gratis barnomsorg. Och bland de sju kategorier återfinns Experten (uppdelad i en rad underkategorier, däribland Tråkmånsen och Den Hjälpsamme), Den unga familjen (Den utmattade och Den ambitiösa), Dagdrivaren och Den inte så tysta genomresanden (Visslaren, Sniffaren, Hummaren, Fjärtaren). Tillsammans utgör de sju typerna delar av en av de roligaste och elakaste böcker om böcker och bokköpare du någonsin kommer att läsa. Sju sorters människor du träffar på i en bokhandel är en oumbärlig guide till din lokala bokhandels flora och fauna.
Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
Shaun Bythell
David R. Godine Publisher Inc
2020
sidottu
A very funny view of books and the people who love them. It does take all kinds and Shaun Bythell knows them all--from the "Person Who Doesn't Know What They Want (But Thinks It Might Have a Blue Cover)" to the "Parents Secretly After Free Childcare." A wickedly witty field guide by the curmudgeonly author of Confessions of a Bookseller. From behind the counter, Shaun Bythell catalogs the customers who roam his shop in Wigtown, Scotland. There's the Expert (divided into subspecies from the Bore to the Helpful Person), the Young Family (ranging from the Exhausted to the Aspirational), Occultists (from Conspiracy Theorist to Craft Woman). Then there's the Loiterer (including the Erotica Browser and the Self-Published Author), the Bearded Pensioner (including the Lyrca Clad), and the The Not-So-Silent Traveller (the Whistler, Sniffer, Hummer, Farter, and Tutter). Two bonus sections include Staff and, finally, Perfect Customer--all add up to one of the funniest book about books you'll ever find. Shaun Bythell's unique observational eye and dry wit make this perfect for anyone who loves bookshops--including all the kinds of the people you meet inside.
Confessions of a Bookseller
Shaun Bythell
Profile Books Ltd
2020
pokkari
Halvin toimitettuna 19,90 €
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Irreverently funny ... kept me giggling all week.' Scotland on Sunday "Do you have a list of your books, or do I just have to stare at them?" Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland. With more than a mile of shelving, real log fires in the shop and the sea lapping nearby, the shop should be an idyll for bookworms. Unfortunately, Shaun also has to contend with bizarre requests from people who don't understand what a shop is, home invasions during the Wigtown Book Festival and Granny, his neurotic Italian assistant who likes digging for river mud to make poultices.
One cozy, funny, year with a Scottish used bookseller as he stays afloat while managing staff, customers, and life in the village of Wigtown. This endearing world is the next best thing to visiting your favorite bookstore (shop cat not included). Inside a Georgian townhouse on the Wigtown highroad, jammed with more than 100,000 books and a portly cat named Captain, Shaun Bythell manages the daily ups and downs of running Scotland's largest used bookshop with a sharp eye and even sharper wit. His account of one year behind the counter is something no book lover should miss. Shaun copes with eccentric staff, tallies up the day's orders, drives to distant houses to buy private libraries, and meditates on the nature of life and independent bookstores ("There really does seem to be a serendipity about bookshops, not just with finding books you never knew existed, or that you've been searching for, but with people too."). Confessions of a Bookseller is a warm and welcome memoir of a life in books. It's for any reader looking for the kind of friend you meet in a bookstore.
A WRY AND HILARIOUS ACCOUNT OF LIFE AT A BOOKSHOP IN A REMOTE SCOTTISH VILLAGE "Among the most irascible and amusing bookseller memoirs I've read." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times "Warm, witty and laugh-out-loud funny..." --The Daily Mail The Diary of a Bookseller is Shaun Bythell's funny and fascinating memoir of a year in the life at the helm of The Bookshop, in the small village of Wigtown, Scotland--and of the delightfully odd locals, unusual staff, eccentric customers, and surreal buying trips that make up his life there as he struggles to build his business . . . and be polite . . . In this wry and hilarious diary, he tells us the trials and tribulations of being a small businessman; of learning that customers can be, um, eccentric; and of wrangling with his own staff of oddballs. And perhaps none are quirkier than the charmingly cantankerous bookseller Bythell himself turns out to be. Slowly, with a mordant wit and keen eye, Bythell is seduced by the growing charm of small-town life, despite--or maybe because of--all the peculiar characters there.
Love, Nina meets Black Books: a wry and hilarious account of life in Scotland's biggest second-hand bookshop and the band of eccentrics and book-obsessives who work there '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.' (Mail on Sunday) 'Utterly compelling and Bythell has a Bennett-like eye for the amusing eccentricities of ordinary people ... I urge you to buy this book and please, even at the risk of being insulted or moaned at, buy it from a real live bookseller.' (Charlotte Heathcote Sunday Express) Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover's paradise? Well, almost ... In these wry and hilarious diaries, Shaun provides an inside look at the trials and tribulations of life in the book trade, from struggles with eccentric customers to wrangles with his own staff, who include the ski-suit-wearing, bin-foraging Nicky. He takes us with him on buying trips to old estates and auction houses, recommends books (both lost classics and new discoveries), introduces us to the thrill of the unexpected find, and evokes the rhythms and charms of small-town life, always with a sharp and sympathetic eye.
Shaun Bythell driver bruktbokhandel i den lille byen Wigtown i Skottland. Han har skrevet dagbok et helt år, fra februar 2014 til februar 2015. Han skriver om hva kundene kjøper, hva de spør etter, hva de sier og gjør, hva kollegaen har på seg, hva som er dagens fortjeneste, små trivielle ting som utgjør hverdagen. Den røde tråden er alt det rare og frekke kundene sier og gjør, og det som bærer boken er innblikket man får i en utsatt bransje. Forfatteren Shaun Bythell har drevet bokhandelen The Book Shop i Wigtown i seksten år. Det er det største antikvariatet i Skottland. En bokhandlers dagbok er hans første bok. Sagt om En bokhandler dagbok: «En tørrvittig skottes dagbok fra et iskaldt antikvariat i den lille byen Wigtown er årets morsomste lesing! Den er den perfekte gave til alle som leser, liker bøker, liker bokhandlere, liker antikvariater. Så den burde være midt i blinken for alle Tronsmo-kunder.» Tronsmobok, Instagram 9. desember 2017 «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 som much.» Mail in Sunday «Peopled with fascinating characters ... (and) laugh-out-loud funny» Herald