Scotland
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Waverley by Sir Walter Scott
In my effort to fill the gaps in my classic literature knowledge, I’m making a conscious (potentially masochistic) effort to read novels/ authors I’ve sort of avoided. Waverley by Sir Walter Scott feels like one of those books I should probably purchase second-hand from The Bookshop in Wigtown. In fact, Shaun Bythell comes across Scott’s… Continue reading
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Lost and Found in Wigtown (The bookselling diaries of Shaun Bythell)
“A customer at 11.15 a.m. asked for a copy of Far from the Maddening Crowd. In spite of several attempts to explain that the book’s title is actually Far from the Madding Crowd, he resolutely refused to accept that this was the case, even when the overwhelming evidence of a copy of it was placed… Continue reading