Profile picks up third volume of bookseller Bythell's diaries

Profile Books has scooped Remainders of the Day, a series of diaries by author and bookseller Shaun Bythell.

Publishing director Cecily Gayford acquired world rights to the book from Jenny Brown Associates, for publication on 1st September. 

The book is a follow-up to The Diary of a Bookseller (Profile) and Confessions of a Bookseller (Profile) from Bythell, who is the owner of The Bookshop, in Wigtown.

"Remainders of the Day promises to transport readers back to 2016 with Bythell’s reflections on the Brexit vote, the ongoing tedium of being banned from Amazon seller central and the countless daily dramas of owning a second-hand bookshop in a small town on the south-west coast of Scotland," the synopsis reads. 

The first two volumes of his diaries have now sold more than 160,000 copies across formats and rights deals have been made in 29 different languages, according to the publisher. Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops, published as a till-point-hardback in autumn 2020, has sold more than 21,000 copies, Profile said.

Bythell will be touring the UK’s indie bookshops this autumn and will be appearing at his native Wigtown Book Festival in October.