RaveThe Guardian (UK)In this brilliant sequel to The Diary of a Bookseller, Bythell plays the misanthrope to perfection. For fans of his first book there are many familiar faces ... wonderfully droll and often hilarious. It’s the kind of authentic humour that has been honed by years of infuriatingly close contact with the great book-buying general public ... But despite the gloomy picture he paints of bookselling, this is a delightfully heart-warming love letter to bookshops, one that celebrates their serendipity: the unexpected joy of coming across books you didn’t know existed.
