Book Club: Shaun Bythell – Return of the Bookseller Diarist

Podcast: Best of the Spectator · The Spectator

Opublikowano: 2026-10-14

For this week’s Book Club, Sam Leith, the Spectator’s literary editor, is joined by Shaun Bythell, proprietor of The Book Shop in Wigtown, Scotland, and author of The Diary of a Bookseller series, to discuss the fourth instalment, The Return of the Bookseller’s Diary. They discuss the strange characters who wander into second-hand bookshops, the customers who haggle over £2 books, and how Bythell’s shop helped turn Wigtown into Scotland’s unlikely book town. They also explore the changing world of bookselling, from the rise of online marketplaces to the 18th-century bookseller James Lacki...