Start gifting
Libro.fm for Business
Start a membership, get two free audiobooks
Bookseller Created
Books about Books & Bookstores
Get two free audiobooks AND support local bookstores
Make the switch
Send as gift
Add to Wish List
Almost ready!
In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.
Log in Create account
Limited-time offer
Get two free audiobooks when you make the switch!
Now’s a great time to shop indie. When you start a new membership supporting local bookstores with promo code SWITCH, we’ll give you two bonus audiobook credits at sign-up.
Make the switch
Gift audiobook credit bundles
You pick the number of credits, your recipient picks the audiobooks, and your local bookstore is supported by your purchase.
Start giftingConfessions of a Bookseller
Narrator
Peter Kenny
This audiobook uses AI narration.
We’re taking steps to make sure AI narration is transparent.
Learn more
Length
9 hours 6 minutes
Language
English
This book is the next best thing to visiting your favorite bookstore—bookshop cat not included.
Go behind the scenes at The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland, with owner Shaun Bythell. Inside a Georgian townhouse with a stone façade on the Wigtown highroad, jammed with more than 100,000 books and one portly shop cat, Shaun manages the daily ups and downs of running Scotland’s largest used bookshop with a sharp eye and even sharper wit. His account of one year behind the counter is something no book lover should miss.
Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland, and also one of the organizers of the Wigtown Festival.
Peter Kenny, an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator, is a talented and experienced actor, voice-over artist, singer, musician, and designer, with over twenty-five years of experience working in theater, film, television, and audio. He has achieved great critical acclaim for multicharacter recordings of audiobooks by authors such as Iain Banks, Christopher Priest, and Edmund St Aubyn.
Featured in these playlists...
Reviews
“Among the most irascible and amusing bookseller memoirs I’ve ever read.”
“A full, appealing world populated with colorful characters. The Scottish landscape…is gorgeous.”
“A heartwarming love letter to books and bookshops, by an amenable fellow turned antisocial old misanthrope.”
“Bythell writes with biting humor.”
“Irascibly droll and sometimes elegiac, this is an engaging account of bookstore life…bighearted, sobering, and humane.”
“Confessions of a Bookseller is the quickest escape to a seaside village where books reign.”
“Kenney communicates the social interactions, as well as Bythell’s often ironic declarations, with judicious pacing…Anyone who has been to Wigtown will find this listen thoroughly accurate; anyone who likes books will find it a pleasing virtual visit.”
Expand reviews