The Bookseller at the End of the World

Ruth Shaw weaves together stories of the characters who visit her bookshops,musings about her favourite booksand bittersweet stories from her full and varied life before bookshops. She sailed through the Pacific for yearswas held up by piratesworked at Sydney’s King’s Cross with drug addicts and prostitutescampaigned on numerous environmental issuesand worked the yacht Breaksea Girl as an expedition/tourist boat with her husbandLance. 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 Lanceand 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.