A review by roseanne80
The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell

5.0

About a 100 years ago, author Christopher Morley wrote “The Haunted Bookshop” which featured bookseller Roger Mifflin in his Brooklyn-based used bookstore. Roger is secretly writing an autobiography tentatively titled “What a Young Bookseller Ought to Know”. So of course, I had to read this book by a Scottish bookseller. Turns out Bythell is more misanthropic than Mifflin, but his was very entertaining read. I would categorize this as cozy - it was a pleasure at the end of the day to catch up with the shop and Wigtown’s local variables. I’m looking forward to reading the other books in this series.