The Diary of a Bookseller

FRIDAY, 30 JANUARY

Online orders: 6

Books found: 5

Nicky was back in again. Following her illness, she appears to have forgotten about Foodie Friday, much to my relief.

While I was looking for a book – one of today’s orders – I discovered a copy of Rudyard Kipling’s Barrack-Room Ballads in the Scottish poetry section, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam in the history section and Journal of the Waterloo Campaigns in the First World War section. I have given up trying to understand how Nicky’s mind works.

The worst customer today was a balding man with a yellow ponytail who spent an hour breathing heavily in the erotica section, and thumbed his way through nearly everything with illustrations. He left without buying anything. In fact, I wonder whether it was a good thing that he left empty-handed, thus sparing me any sort of social interaction with him.

Till total £107

7 customers