Ben Shewry traces the long arc from rural New Zealand to the exacting world of fine dining, writing with the same intensity he brings to the pass.

This is a book about work — the kind that consumes you. Run through only industry that can consume you in this way.

Shewry is frank about ambition, ego, failure, anxiety, reinvention. He interrogates what it means to build something — a restaurant, a reputation, a life — and what it costs the people around you. The glamour is incidental; the pressure is constant.

Part kitchen memoir, part reckoning, Uses for Obsession looks at creativity without romance and success without soft focus.

Signed copy, as new.