The Diary of a Bookseller

TUESDAY, 14 OCTOBER

Online orders: 2

Books found: 2

Two complete strangers came into the shop at the same time and in an extraordinary coincidence both asked at the same time for a copy of Gavin Maxwell’s House of Elrig. Sadly we don’t have a copy or I could have orchestrated a bidding war.

Ronnie the electrician turned up when the shop was full of customers and started loudly describing the various ways in which we could blow up Kindles. He has a disconcertingly comprehensive knowledge of bomb-making. I will probably go for a sugar/sodium chlorate mix, although he seems quite keen to try an oxyacetylene bomb. Customers who arrived half-way through the conversation gave him a wide berth.

Quiet day compared with yesterday.

Till total £72.30

11 customers