Remainders of the Day (eBook)

Laconic, droll, opinionated and unconvincingly misanthropic ... Wigtown's Pepys.

A book and bookshop lover's delight.

The second volume of memoirs by the Wigtown bookseller Shaun Bythell is as absorbing as the first

Tempted to follow your dream and open a second-hand bookshop? Don't do anything before you read Shaun Bythell ... second-hand bookshops are alive because of people like him.

Peopled with fascinating characters ... a sarcastic reminder of the struggles of small business ownership, the importance of community and the frustration of dealing with customers ... occasionally laugh-out-loud funny.

Funny and fascinating in equal measure - a must for all those of us who haunt the sepulchres where old books are laid to rest.

Gentle, funny and soothing

Any reader finding this book in their stocking on Christmas morning should feel lucky ... contains plenty to amuse - an excellent diversion

Equal parts preposterous and profound, sure to prove irresistible to fellow bibliophiles

The best parts are irreverently funny and only borderline legal ... he is certainly not self-serving in terms of writing about what he sees as his own failures and weaknesses ... has kept me giggling all week

Utterly compelling ... I urge you to buy this book

Effortlessly charming ... it is soothing to sink once again into the rhythms of Bythell's year

All the ingredients for a gentle human comedy are here, as soothing as a bag of boiled sweets and just as tempting to dip into

Bythell is having fun and it's infectious ... actually amusing

Crisp and often funny - and Bythell is canny enough to temper his pantomime misanthropy with bursts of sweetness

Wonderfully entertaining.

Warm, witty and laugh-out-loud funny, this gently meandering tale of British eccentricity will stay long in the memory.

I tore through the pages, but I was also rather sad when it finished - I could have read much, much more. Any bibliophiles should race to get a copy.