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  • Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops by Shaun Bythell. Book cover has an illustration of people reading books, a black cat and a baby.
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    Shaun Bythell

    Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
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    In twenty years behind the till in The Bookshop...
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    Shaun Bythell

    The Diary of a Bookseller
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    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...
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    Shaun Bythell

    Confessions of a Bookseller
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    Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in W...
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    Grant Harrold

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    Peter Marshall

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    Longlisted for the 2024 Highland Book Prize Fro...
    Longlisted for the 2024 Highland Book Prize From Peter Marshall, winner of the 2018 Wolfson Prize, Storm’s Edge is a new history of the Orkney Islands that delves deep into island politics, folk be...
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