{"product_id":"the-bookseller-at-the-end-of-the-world","title":"The Bookseller at the End of the World","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn extraordinary story.\u003c\/em\u003e Shaun Bythell, \u003cem\u003eThe Diary of a Bookseller\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRuth Shaw weaves together stories of the characters who visit her bookshops, musings about favourite books, and bittersweet stories from her full and varied life. She's sailed through the Pacific for years, been held up by pirates, worked at Sydney's Kings Cross with drug addicts and prostitutes, campaigned on numerous environmental issues, and worked the yacht \u003cem\u003eBreaksea Girl\u003c\/em\u003e with her husband, Lance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUnderlining 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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShaw's writing is pragmatic and restrained; her voice is so strong and assured that when grief appears you gasp at its intrusion and your heart stops a second.\u003c\/em\u003e Alexa Dretzke, Readings Hawthorn\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmazing!\u003c\/em\u003e Jack Tame, Newstalk ZB\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA fascinating, funny and moving story.\u003c\/em\u003e Nicky Pellegrino, New Zealand Woman's Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShaw 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.\u003c\/em\u003e Chris Moore, NZ Listener\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUtterly charming and filled with equal measures of heartbreak and humour, Ruth Shaw's memoir will have you booking the first flight to New Zealand to share a cup of tea at her Wee Bookshops. Shaw has been a cook, a nurse, sailor and world traveller, and endured immeasurable loss. But with Lance, the love of her life, Shaw has found her place bookselling in Fiordland.\u003c\/em\u003e Booksellers' Choice Australia\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCompelling. Shaw tells her own story free of over-sentimentality or self-pity; she's straightforward, frequently humorous... Her resilience, optimism and willingness to help others is to be admired; her remarkable story is to be read and reflected upon as it adds another vital perspective to a NZ life.\u003c\/em\u003e Dionne Christian, Sunday Star Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45595926888684,"sku":"9781988547756","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781988547756.jpg?v=1739155597","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/the-bookseller-at-the-end-of-the-world","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}