• Kiwi Tales #9: Ruth Shaw - The Bookseller at the End of the World

  • Jan 19 2024
  • Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
  • Podcast
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Kiwi Tales #9: Ruth Shaw - The Bookseller at the End of the World

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  • Ruth Shaw, author of bestselling "The Bookseller at the End of the World" and "Bookshop Dogs" describes with great courage and honesty her amazing life. This is an incredibly moving and inspiring story of tragedy and despair, but interlaced throughout with many heart warming moments. Episode Links: Two Wee Bookshop's Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100074150511871 0:00 Introduction 29:16 Early Life 40:33 1963 1:07:08 Navy Wren 1:15:06 Stuart Island and Meeting Lance 1:23:37 Tahiti 1:29:53 Suva 1:34:15 Joshua's Death 1:38:54 Papua New Guinea 1:45:58 Pirates 1:51:16 Mum's Illness & Death 1:55:00 Tough Times in Australia 2:11:11 Pig Farm 2:13:53 Sailing Australia 2:15:04 Kings Cross 2:16:23 Lance Reunion 2:22:22 Fiordland Ecology Holidays 2:27:15 Marriage to Lance 2:33:22 Search for Son 2:41:45 Bookshops 2:47:48 Final Questions

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