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100 _aShaw, Ruth
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245 1 4 _aThe bookseller at the end of the world /
_cRuth Shaw.
260 _aSydney :
_b Allen & Unwin,
_c 2022.
300 _a320 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
_billustrations (some colour) ;
_c23 cm
520 _aRuth 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 Cross 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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