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The bookseller at the end of the world / Ruth Shaw.

By: Publisher: Auckland, New Zealand : Allen & Unwin, 2022Copyright date: �2022Description: 320 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781988547756
  • 198854775X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 381.45002092 23
LOC classification:
  • Z543.9.S52 S52 2022
Contents:
1. Two wee bookshops -- 2. The start of books and business -- 3. Know when to hold 'em -- 4. Naseby -- 5. 1963 -- 6. Off to the Navy -- 7. Stewart Island and meeting Lance -- 8. Working for the Archbishop -- 9. All aboard -- 10. My brief career as a burglar -- 11. Tragedy returns -- 12. Arriving in Rabaul -- 13. Please worry -- 14. Letters from home -- 15. Slipping away -- 16. Do not go gentle -- 17. The madhatter's mansion -- 18. Marriage, marijuana and the menagerie -- 19. A kind of magic -- 20. Resist much, obey little ... -- 21. Fighting for the opposition -- 22. Home beckons -- 23. Arriving home -- 24. The adventures of Lance -- 25. Finding my son -- 26. My blue-eyed boy -- 27. The bookseller at the edge of the world -- 28. Home Street.
Summary: 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 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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1. Two wee bookshops -- 2. The start of books and business -- 3. Know when to hold 'em -- 4. Naseby -- 5. 1963 -- 6. Off to the Navy -- 7. Stewart Island and meeting Lance -- 8. Working for the Archbishop -- 9. All aboard -- 10. My brief career as a burglar -- 11. Tragedy returns -- 12. Arriving in Rabaul -- 13. Please worry -- 14. Letters from home -- 15. Slipping away -- 16. Do not go gentle -- 17. The madhatter's mansion -- 18. Marriage, marijuana and the menagerie -- 19. A kind of magic -- 20. Resist much, obey little ... -- 21. Fighting for the opposition -- 22. Home beckons -- 23. Arriving home -- 24. The adventures of Lance -- 25. Finding my son -- 26. My blue-eyed boy -- 27. The bookseller at the edge of the world -- 28. Home Street.

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 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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