Book lovers rejoice- your perfect job is here!
Do you long for endless days of sunshine, the sand between your toes, and enough books to satisfy your reading addiction? Does your perfect working day involve walking barefoot in soft, white sand with a book in your hand?
A luxury eco resort in the Maldives are looking for a passionate bibliophile who can blog about their time on the resort as the resident castaway bookseller. The pay is pittance but when the benefits are included it seems like a dream job. You may not walk away at the end with cash saved but you will have experienced an absolute dream come true for many reading addicts.
If this sounds up your sandy street then Soneva Fushi have a job for you…
Philip Blackwell of the bookseller family, is looking for someone with passion and humour, to write “an entertaining and lively blog that captures the exhausting life of a desert island bookseller”. For a minimum of three months the Man Friday bookseller will be reading, blogging, mingling with celebrities, entertain their children, and host creative writing courses for the guests. It will be exhausting but rewarding!
“We want someone on the ground who is creative and inspiring and can maybe get more people to share the pleasure of reading, which is what people enjoy doing on holiday,” The shop will hold books reflective of the immediate environment and colourful sea life, as well as titles that would interest wealthy holiday-goers. “They are highly educated, enquiring people who want to relax and get away from things but also think a bit and better themselves,” says Blackwell.
As the modern world pushes convenient technology on us at every turn, this resort and its bookseller are hoping a more discerning (*cough rich cough*) book lover will want exclusive, signed, or first-edition hard and paperbacks. Downloading a book is so normal these days that it seems niche and exclusive to hold a physical copy of a book in one’s hand. Anyone can have thousands of books on a device but how many can afford a library full of rare titles? As villas at Soneva Fushi are not cheap- they range from $2,000 a night (1 bed) to nearly $26,000 (9 bed)- the clientele is bound to be as exclusive as they come.
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