Shaun Bythell拥有苏格兰**的二手书店Wigtown。这个书店有10万册图书，书架长达一英里(约合1.6公里)，蜿蜒的走廊和熊熊的大火，这一切都发生在海边一个美丽的乡村小镇上。图书爱好者的天堂吗?嗯,几乎……

在这些诙谐有趣的日记中，肖恩深入了解了书商生活中的磨难，从与古怪顾客的斗争，到与自己的员工的争吵，其中包括穿着滑雪服、四处觅食的尼基(Nicky)。他带我们去老庄园和拍卖行买东西，向我们推荐书籍(包括遗失的经典著作和新发现)，向我们介绍意外发现带来的兴奋，总是用敏锐而富有同情心的目光唤起小镇生活的节奏和魅力。

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.