Our Book of the Week is The Bookseller at the End of the World by Ruth Shaw. Shaw didn't exactly intend to become a bookseller, but she found herself the proprietor of two tiny bookshops in the tiny settlement of Manapouri. In this charming volume, Shaw weaves together accounts of characters who visit her bookshop, musings on her favourite books, and bittersweet stories from her remarkable and varied life before she became a bookseller. She has 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. 
>>How to run a bookshop. 
>>Pirates, pigs and sex work. 
>>A life well lived. 
>>There were two... 
>>And now there are three!
>>Crammed with adventure. 
>>Read an excerpt.