276°
Posted 20 hours ago

The Diary of a Bookseller: Shaun Bythell (Shaun Bythell, 1)

£9.9£99Clearance
ZTS2023's avatar
Shared by
ZTS2023
Joined in 2023
82
63

About this deal

Recommended for all those who think it would be cool to have a bookshop and for the rest of us who enjoy reading and reading about what other people are reading. The first dramatization, written by the American author Meyer Levin, did not find a producer. Otto Frank, too, had his reservations about Levin's work..." [31] An elderly customer told me that her book club’s next book was Dracula, but she couldn’t remember what he’d written." a b Attard, Isabelle (1 January 2016). "Vive Anne Frank, vive le Domaine Public"[Long live Anne Frank, long live the Public Domain] (in French) . Retrieved 8 July 2019. The files are available in TXT and ePub format.

Shaun Bythell - owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop - is to publish his "wry and hilarious" diaries about bookselling with Profile Books. The nature of Holocaust denial: What is Holocaust denial?", JPR Report, 3, 2000, archived from the original on 18 July 2011 ; Prose, Francine (2009). Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife. New York: Harper. pp. 239–249. ISBN 978-0061430794.

Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops

The first German film version of the diary, written by Fred Breinersdorfer, was released by NBCUniversal in 2016. The film is derived from the 2014 Dutch stage production.

On 4 August 1944, they were discovered and deported to Nazi concentration camps. They were long thought to have been betrayed, although there are indications that their discovery may have been accidental, that the police raid had actually targeted "ration fraud". [19] Of the eight people, only Otto Frank survived the war. Anne was 15 years old when she died in Bergen-Belsen. The exact date of her death is unknown, and has long been believed to be in late February or early March, a few weeks before the prisoners were liberated by British troops on 15 April 1945. [20] Of course, one person’s good book is another person’s bad book; the matter is entirely subjective.” Shaun Bythell consideră, pe bună dreptate, că un „client ideal” nu caută prin rafturi la întîmplare, ci „știe exact ce vrea”: numește fără să clipească titlul, autorul și editura, fiindcă a citit o recenzie luminoasă în The Times și se încrede în părerea gazetarului (p.10). Un singur musafir îndeplinește toate condițiile cerute, domnul Deacon, un bătrîn ce va muri de Alzheimer (aflăm dintr-o notă strecurată în finalul cărții, la p.351). În absența domnului Deacon, anticarul nostru va rămîne doar cu clienți reali, adică prost crescuți, bădărani și ignoranți... Really bookish people are a rarity, although there are vast numbers of those who consider themselves to be such. The latter are particularly easy to identify – often they will introduce themselves when they enter the shop as ‘book people’ and insist on telling you that ‘we love books’. They’ll wear T-shirts or carry bags with slogans explaining exactly how much they think they adore books, but the surest means of identifying them is that they never, ever buy books.The entries can become repetitive, but book lovers will eat it up, and the shop’s eccentric (and sometimes epically stupid) customers, in combination with Bythell’s drier-than-wine-squeezed-from-the-President’s-grapes* sense of humor, give it a broader appeal.

Asda Great Deal

Free UK shipping. 15 day free returns.
Community Updates
*So you can easily identify outgoing links on our site, we've marked them with an "*" symbol. Links on our site are monetised, but this never affects which deals get posted. Find more info in our FAQs and About Us page.
New Comment