The Diary of a Bookseller

SUNDAY, 5 OCTOBER

Online orders: 6

Books found: 4

Nicky and Flo in. I bumped into Nicky in the kitchen at about 8.30 a.m. She told me, ‘You smell as good as a bacon roll.’

As always on the final day of the festival, there’s a sense of end-of-holiday blues, as the party begins to wind down. Despite it being the last day, there was the usual chaos going on in the Writers’ Retreat, with the staff and Maria being magnificently serene.

Eliot roped Anna into chairing Jen Campbell’s event, a talk about her new book, The Bookshop Book. It went extremely well, apart from me asking a particularly stupid question. Both Anna and Jen were erudite and entertaining.

As with every year, on the last day of the festival, we turned the Writers’ Retreat into a cinema. This year we set up the projector and watched Dr Who with Stuart, Beth and Cheyney.

Till total £568.75

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