08 July 2020
Sunday Times bestselling author of Diary of a Bookseller and Confessions of a Bookseller, Shaun Bythell is back with Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops, which will be published in November 2020.
Shaun Bythell said: ‘After the publication of The Diary of a Bookseller, a reader pointed out that I had made completely unfair, sweeping generalisations about the customers on whom I depend for a living. Confessions of a Bookseller just made these even worse. Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops is likely to offend almost everyone who has ever crossed the threshold of a book shop.’
Profile Books will publish Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops as a £7.99 hardback in November 2020.
About Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
Everyone knows who you find in bookshops: people who want to buy books. But, that’s really only half the story. Affectionate, sardonic and laugh-out-loud funny, Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops is your indispensable guide to the flora and fauna waiting to be rediscovered in your recently unlocked local bookshop as observed by seasoned bookshop owner and ‘Scotland’s grumpiest bookseller,’ Shaun Bythell.
Join Shaun as he introduces us to seven bookshop characters, from the Person Who Doesn’t Know What They Want (But Thinks It Might Have a Blue Cover) to the harried Parents Secretly After Free Childcare and all the way over to the erotica section, where we’ll meet The Person Who Is Up to No Good.
About Shaun Bythell
Shaun bought The Bookshop in Wigtown on 1 November 2001, and has been running it ever since with an increasing passion for the business, matched only by a sense of despair for its future, and an ill-humour inspired by almost two decades of dealing with confused customers and surly staff. His internationally-bestselling books The Diary of a Bookseller (2017) and Confessions of a Bookseller. (2019) have been translated into over twenty languages, including Russian, Korean and French.