The other night I pulled this book from my shelves and re-read it. This was even better with the second read. See my full review HERE
Jessica Fox was living in Hollywood, an ambitious 26-year-old film-maker with a high-stress job at NASA. Working late one night, craving another life, she was seized by a moment of inspiration and tapped “second hand bookshop Scotland” into Google. She clicked the first link she saw.
A month later, she arrived 2,000 miles across the Atlantic in Wigtown, on the west coast of Scotland, and knocked on the door of the bookshop she would be living in for the next month .
Later I got thinking, The Bookshop (and yes, that is the shop name) in Wigtown, Scotland, and its owner, are the basis for these three delightful books I also have on my shelves.
Mr. Bythell has written these memoirs in a daily journal format and they chronicle the joys, bizarre customer requests, and struggles of a life lived above his used bookshop. I also browsed these another evening and, although I haven’t read them cover to cover, they are fun to dip into.
Sharply funny, often snarky, and filled with lots of literary nuggets to delight any bibliophile. These books have a permanent home here.
HERE is a video of shop and Mr. Bythell (sound quality isn’t very good, but no matter, it’s fun to peek into his shop.
And, a photo of the author in his shop. (I love the clutter, I could browse here for days.)
