The Diary of a Bookseller

WEDNESDAY, 12 NOVEMBER

Online orders: 2

Books found: 2

One of the online orders was for the Penguin edition of Huxley’s Eyeless in Gaza, a book I hadn’t even realised we had in stock.

Just before lunch a customer brought in four boxes of grubby trashy fiction. I fished out a few and offered him £15 for them. He proceeded to complain that £15 wouldn’t even cover the cost of the petrol he used to drive here with them. When I pointed out that I neither asked him to bring them here nor even knew that he was going to, he continued to complain until he finally left, muttering that he had a large library of rare antiquarian books that he ‘most certainly won’t be bringing to this establishment to sell’.

Winter is really setting in, and the shop is noticeably colder than it was a few weeks ago, despite the heating being on and the stove in the shop having been lit every day since the start of October.

Till total £67.95

7 customers