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The ShopShop Online View all Books View Categories Basket Checkout My account Delivery, Returns PaymentGalleryAboutBlogContact Menu The ShopShop Online View all Books View Categories Basket Checkout My account Delivery, Returns PaymentGalleryAboutBlogContact The Bookshop, Wigtown Largest second-hand bookshop in Scotland About Shop Online The Bookshop, Wigtown

The Bookshop is the largest second-hand bookshop in Scotland, with over a mile of shelving supporting roughly 100,000 books.

The shop, the oldest bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland’s National Booktown, is home to our extensive range of stock covering all subjects of all ages for all ages.

After years of selling through huge online monopolies, we finally decided that wed had enough of being told what to do by algorithmsand built our own online shop.

Here it is. We hope youll like it.

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The Diary of a Bookseller

A unique chance to join Shaun Bythell, the owner of The Bookshop, to see behind the scenes of the world that is bookselling. Through his honest and wryly hilarious diaries, we get a very different view of bookselling: one beset with malfunctioning heating, eccentric customers, bad-mannered, bin-foraging employees and a perennially empty till.

Shaun 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 charms and horrors of small town life.

International bestseller, The Diary of a Bookseller, has now been translated into twenty-eight languages.

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Confessions of a bookseller

Bookselling, Shaun reveals in his sequel to the bestselling The Diary of a Bookseller, is far from the idyll you might imagine. Beset by bizarre requests from customers who appear not to know what a shop is, locked in an endless struggle with Amazon and terrorised by his bin-diving, poultice-making employees, Shaun documents his trials and tribulations with a sharp eye and even sharper wit.

This is the inside story of a life lived in books: from the pleasures of the unexpected find to the friendships forged over shared tastes and the sadness of finishing a really good book, Confessions of a Bookseller will delight and inform until the very last page.

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Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops

In twenty years behind the till in The Bookshop, Wigtown, Shaun Bythell has met pretty much every kind of customer there is from the charming, erudite and deep-pocketed to the eccentric, flatulent and possibly larcenous.

In Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops he distils the essence of his experience into a warm, witty and quirky taxonomy of the book-loving public. So, step inside to meet the crafty Antiquarian, the shy and retiring Erotica Browser and gormless yet strangely likeable shop assistant Student Hugo along with much loved booksellers favourites like the passionate Sci-Fi Fan, the voracious Railway Collector and the ever-elusive Perfect Customer.

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Man sitting two seats away from me on the London to Glasgow train (seat A22, in the event that he's reading this) is sniffing loudly and wetly every six seconds. It's driving me demented. ... See MoreSee Less

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One might consider a slightly more direct line of communication to the gentleman on A22 to softly probe whether he might possibly be persuaded to reconsider the acoustics and humidity surrounding his muzzle devices in the for him least uncomfortable manner consistent with the circumstances.

Why earplugs or head sets were invented. Nothing communicates I dont want to listen to you quite so well.

You know what you have to do. Theres not a jury that would convict you.

One toxic fart should stop the sniffing.

Time for some DDT spray.

Everyone being very British about it and glowering inwardly? Its what Id do.

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