“Shopkeeping: Stories, Advice, And Observations” by Peter Miller

A love letter to the small shop, and shop owners everywhere, by beloved bookseller Peter Miller.

Peter Miller has kept a design bookshop in Seattle for more than forty years. He has also written three books: Manuels about cooking and preparing food and about eating together. In this fourth book, he writes, for the first time, about his day job: shopkeeping.

Miller crafts stories from the bookshop floor- the joys, the perils, the hopes, the economies, and the details of running a shop. This essay collection is for the shop lovers, patrons, and owners- it captures the art, the task, and the heart of shopkeeping. Readers will come to understand how crucial the shop is to out towns and cities, representing the character and the strength and the testament of a community.

this is a Manuel, of sorts. A Manuel to the art of shopkeeping. It will surely lure you to the shops- it may even lure you to owning one.