The Diary of a Bookseller

THURSDAY, 15 JANUARY

Online orders: 4

Books found: 2

Wild and windy again today, but on a positive note, the gutter didn’t leak into the house.

The first customer of the day asked ‘Who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird?’ I told her it was Harper Lee, to which she replied, ‘Are you sure it wasn’t J. D. Salinger?’

At 3 p.m. the telephone rang. It was a journalist at The Observer who wanted to discuss the proposed wind farm.

I shut the shop at 3.30 p.m. and drove with Anna to Newton Stewart to visit Jessie in the hospital. She was in excellent spirits and we got back at 4 p.m. so I opened for the last hour. There were no customers.

Till total £30

3 customers