Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tripe Advisor: Misadventures in the Bookshop, Wigtown | 2014 | Shaun Bythell | Buy |
| 2 | Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops | 2020 | Shaun Bythell | Buy |
These two standalone non-fiction books by Shaun Bythell sit outside his diary series but cover the same territory: life in and around The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland. Both are short, funny, and written in Bythell’s characteristically blunt voice.
Tripe Advisor (2014) was Bythell’s first book, collecting stories and observations from his years in Wigtown. The title is a play on the travel review site, and the book covers the eccentricities of small-town life in Scotland’s National Book Town. Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops (2020) takes a more focused approach, sorting bookshop visitors into seven distinct types and describing each with the weary affection of someone who has spent twenty years watching people browse. Both books will appeal to anyone who has ever spent an afternoon lost in a secondhand bookshop.