• Remainders of the Day

  • More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown
  • By: Shaun Bythell
  • Narrated by: Peter Kenny
  • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (8 ratings)

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Remainders of the Day

By: Shaun Bythell
Narrated by: Peter Kenny
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New from the author of Confessions of a Bookseller and Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops, another hilariously grumpy year behind the counter at The Bookshop. Though diaries of daily life, Shaun Bythell has created an endearing and cozy world for booklovers, a warm and welcome memoir of a life in books.

The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland, is a booklover’s paradise, with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the portly bookshop cat. You’d think that after twenty years, owner Shaun Bythell would be used to his quirky customers by now. Don’t get him wrong, there are some good ones among the antiquarian porn-hunters, die-hard train book lovers, people who confuse bookshops for libraries, and the toddlers just looking for a nice cozy corner in which to wee. He’s sure there are some good ones. There must be …

Filled with the pernickety warmth and humor that has touched audiences around the world, stuffed with literary treasures, hidden gems, and incunabula, Remainders of the Day is a warm and welcome memoir of a life in books.

If you’re new to Shaun Bythell’s bestselling series, this is a great place to start. If you’re one of Bythell’s legion of fans, welcome back to The Bookshop.

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Notes from Bookshop heaven

Enormous fun to be had in the pages of Shaun Blythell’s Diaries, & in the reading performance of Peter Kenny… more, please!

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Delightful

I love his writing style and the narrators voice. It makes me want to keep listening. I hope he writes more books.

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  • 04-28-24

Follow the seasons in the boots of a Scottish bookseller

More diary entries from the Bookstore in Wigton. What I love about reading, and particularly listening, to the day-to-day happenings of small town life in Scotland and the ups-and-downs of bookstore work, is the sloweness that follows the seasons and the quietude that it allows you to sink into. There is something nostalgic about this and it’s old world setting especially for us Americans living fast paced lives and to hear it read is downright cathartic. While Shaun Blythell certainly does not romanticize the book trade in the slightest he does afford us the opportunity to spend a year in his shoes and enjoy the highs of a great find and the lows of Amazon’s kafkaesque online world, replete with Blythell’s dry, witty humor. When this book is at its best, it’s tying together quotes from books he found in his bookstore with his own experience as a bookseller to critique Amazon. When it’s not at its best, it feels like somewhat disjointed entries on random topics. Nevertheless it is always worth a listen and is easy enough to get hooked on. Hope there are more books of his to come!

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