The Diary of a Bookseller (The Bookseller Series by Shaun Bythell Book 1)

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I have yet to question Nicky about this, but the answer will almost certainly be, ‘Aye, but they were on a boat for some of it.

I loved the outings where he goes to source books, most coming from deceased estates never knowing what kind of treasure or in most cases useless rubbish he will find. Nicky was particularly entertaining although probably more so on paper than if you had to actually live with her. Of course, being set in a village in Scotland, there had to be quirky characters and there are indeed plenty. According to Yves Kugelmann, a member of the board of the foundation, their expert advice was that Otto had created a new work by editing, merging, and trimming entries from the diary and notebooks and reshaping them into a "kind of collage", which had created a new copyright. He also has to battle with those that think nothing of selecting a number of books off the shelf, coming up to the counter and then offering a paltry sum for the books that they want.Bythell does video production and sells furniture, antiques and walking sticks carved by “Sandy, the tattooed pagan.

It also included sections of Anne's diaries which had previously been edited out, containing passages on her sexuality, references to touching her friend's breasts, and her thoughts on menstruation. In 1989, an English edition of this appeared under the title of The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition, including Mooyaart-Doubleday's translation and Anne Frank's versions A and B, based on the Dutch critical version of 1986. This is a biographical read guaranteed to delight all of us book obsessives and those curious about the nature of the book trade in all its glories and vagaries, narrated by a man who describes himself as both cantankerous and a curmudgeon. I found this book via a GR group read and it was a nice change of pace from most of my usual reading material, not the sort of thing I seek out, and so I'm glad I did. To me these things do not detract but are captivating additions — a glimpse into the mind of another person who has read the same book.Nicky didn’t manage to list a single book over the weekend because, as her note says: ‘The printer wilnae work. The good news, for those who liked his first book, myself included, is this one offers another whole year of his trials and tribulations. Attard had criticised this action only as a "question of money", [82] and Ertzscheid concurred, stating, "It [the diary] belongs to everyone.