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Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops

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"A wickedly witty field guide to bookstore customers from the Person Who Doesn't Know What They Want (But Thinks It Might Have a Blue Cover) to the harried Parents Secretly After Free Childcare. It does take all kinds. If you visit bookshops more often than the grocery store, you'll recognize the types. There's the Expert (with subspecies from the Bore to the Helpful Person), the Young Family (ranging from the Exhausted to the Aspirational), Occultists (from Conspiracy Theorist to Craft Woman). Then there's the Loiterer (including the Erotica Browser and the Self-Published Author), the Bearded Pensioner (including the Lycra Clad), the The Not-So-Silent Traveller (the Whistler, Sniffer, Hummer, Farter, and Tutter), and the Family Historian (generally Americans who come to Shaun's shop in Wigtown, Scotland). Two bonus sections include Staff and, finally, Perfect Customer - all from Shaun Bythell (author of Confessions of a Bookseller), the funniest sell-and-tell observer in the house of books. This is the perfect read for anyone who ever felt a bookstore was home. You've been spotted! Or have you?"--

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English
Pages
128

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Cover of: Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
Feb 09, 2021, Blackstone Publishing
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Cover of: Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
Nov 24, 2020, David R. Godine, Publisher
hardcover in English
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Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
2020, Profile Books Limited, Profile Books
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Library of Congress
Z325.B97S48 2020, Z325.B97 S48 2020

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Format
hardcover
Number of pages
128

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Open Library
OL30625624M
ISBN 10
1567926924
ISBN 13
9781567926927
LCCN
2020028387
OCLC/WorldCat
1154095910

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OL21696105W

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