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The Bookseller at the End of the World
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By Shaw, Ruth
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Ruth Shaw weaves together stories of the characters who visit her bookshops, musings about her favourite books, and bittersweet stories from her full and varied life before bookshops. She sailed through the Pacific for years, was held up by pirates, worked at Sydney's King's Cros...s with drug addicts and prostitutes, campaigned on numerous environmental issues, and worked the yacht Breaksea Girl as an expedition/tourist boat with her husband, Lance. But underlining all her wanderings and adventures are some very deep losses and long-held pain. Balancing that out is her beautiful love story with Lance, and her delightful sense of humour. This memoir will make you weep and make you laugh and make you want to read more books - and make you want to visit Ruth and her two wee bookshops.
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| ISBN |
9781988547756 |
| Published NZ |
29 Mar 2022 |
| Publisher |
Allen & Unwin |
| Format |
Hardback |
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Awards, Reviews & Star Ratings
| NZ Review |
'A fascinating, funny and moving story.' Nicky Pellegrino, NZ Woman's Weekly 'Shaw can write about these peaks and troughs [of her life] without a skerrick of maudlin introspection or mawkishness. Battered and emotionally bruised, she marches on. In a word, dauntless, and it's exactly this quality that makes this memoir so readable.' Chris Moore, NZ Listener |
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Author's Bio
Ruth Shaw runs two wee bookshops in remote Manapouri in the far south of New Zealand.
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