"Bythell, the 34-year-old proprietor of The Bookshop in Wigtown in Galloway, is an affable man, who looks a little like the shambling television chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s long-lost twin. Ordinarily, he is not the type to cause offence. Yet soon he will risk the wrath of his neighbours in this small town on Scotland’s south-west tip, when he holds a public bonfire of old and unread books."

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