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

4.0

This little year-in-the-life memoir had a charmingly disjointed, jumping into the middle sort of feel. I wasn't always sure who people were but found the narrator to be endearingly grumpy and the behind-the-scenes glimpses of the secondhand book business were really interesting- what has value and what doesn't, the trips to acquire libraries when a private collector dies or downsizes, etc.