The Diary of a Bookseller

WEDNESDAY, 29 OCTOBER

Online orders: 1

Books found: 1

Eva spent the day in the festival office. She came back at lunchtime exhausted from a morning of data entry, then headed back to an afternoon of more of the same. When she came back to the shop at 5 p.m., she told me that she had ‘nearly slipped into a boredom coma’.

Kate the postie delivered four more anonymous postcards.

A customer looking for books on dogs kept talking over me as I attempted to direct her to the right section. I finally gave up and timed how long it took for her to stop talking. Two minutes and forty-three seconds.

After I closed the shop, I went for a walk with Eva to show her some of the more interesting parts of the town, including the martyrs’ graves, the medieval well and the monument on Windy Hill.

Till total £106

26 customers