In Quarto [Paperback]

Margaret Squires has been running the Quarto Bookshop, St. Andrews since 1969. A second-hand and new bookshop, it specialises in golf and recycling student texts. The book is a collection of the columns she has been contributing to "The Scottish Book Collector" reflecting her life behind the counter. . "I like your column - are all your customers barking mad?" Customer. "Can't you tell me the story?" Student Customer, "The best golf bookshop on earth?" Today's Golfer. "...the sublime second-hand bookshop called Quarto" Tom Morton, Express.

Seven out of fifteen browsers in second-hand bookshops would like to open one of their own. "In Quarto" gives you some idea of what it would be like.
"I like your column - are all your customers barking mad?" Customer
"Can't you tell me the story?" Student customer
"What's your best price on this?" Another customer
"You're not going in there, we'll never get you out again!" Spouse intent on passing by the Quarto
"....the sublime second-hand bookshop called Quarto" Tom Morton, Express
"Margaret er kjent for sitt utrolige utvalg av gode golfboker" Halvor Kleppen, Golferen.
"The best golf bookshop on earth?"

(Japanese review of Quarto, in Japanese)

Margaret Squires graduated from Oxford and moved to St. Andrews with her lecturer husband. This small Scottish town has a surplus of University wives looking for work, so with two business partners, Margaret decided to provide her own career, looking on bookselling as a useful way to work part-time until her children grew up. Many years later, and a grand mother, she has bought out her business partners, and can't imagine why she ever wanted to do other than sell books. "In Quarto" is a celebration of the joys and annoyances that made it so difficult to do anything else. Besides, being her own boss has enabled her, not to take up golf, but to climb all the Munros (The 284 Scottish mountains over 3,000 feet.)