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"""Bythell's wicked pen and keen eye for the absurd recall what comic Ricky Gervais might say if he ran a bookshop."" -- ""Wall Street Journal"" ""Narrator Peter Kenney picks up on the playful undercurrent running throughout this audiobook...Listeners will have fun because Kenney is having fun with the spot-on descriptions of buyers' quirks...He captures Bythell's persona as a lovable, judgmental bookselling busybody through a lively performance presented with the breathlessness of one friend confiding in another. Listeners will be laughing out loud throughout and recognize many of the species being described."" -- ""AudioFile"""

Bythell's wicked pen and keen eye for the absurd recall what comic Ricky Gervais might say if he ran a bookshop. -- Wall Street Journal Narrator Peter Kenney picks up on the playful undercurrent running throughout this audiobook...Listeners will have fun because Kenney is having fun with the spot-on descriptions of buyers' quirks...He captures Bythell's persona as a lovable, judgmental bookselling busybody through a lively performance presented with the breathlessness of one friend confiding in another. Listeners will be laughing out loud throughout and recognize many of the species being described. -- AudioFile

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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.

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