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Sylvie the Second

Kaeli Baker · 2015

NZ$15.50 (€7.77 | $8.56 | £6.48 | ¥1,367)

Makaro Press 2015 Paperback. It\'s another hospital trip in the witching hours for Sylvie, as part of the support crew for her crazy sister, Calamity Cate. An overdose, this time. As usual, it seems like the family is so caught up in all of Cate\'s drama that Sylvie goes unnot...

Swan

Naomi Campbell · 1994

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.65 | ¥1,191)

BCA 1994 Hardback. DJ. Good.

The Saffron Robe

Jo Cutler · 2008

NZ$18.50 (€9.27 | $10.22 | £7.74 | ¥1,632)

Self-published 2008 Paperback. (ISBN: 9781877513275). Very Good.

Mudbound

Hillary Jordan · 2008

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.65 | ¥1,191)

William Heinemann 2008 Paperback. Cover a little creased, minimal foxing. (ISBN: 9780434018888). Good.

A Family History Of Smoking

Andrew Riemer · 2008

NZ$15.50 (€7.77 | $8.56 | £6.48 | ¥1,367)

Melbourne University Press 2008 Paperback, 224pp. A Family History of Smoking is a compelling memoir about two European families living through the last gasps of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. From great-grandfather David, who saw his family\'s fortunes decline with the gradual ...

Snails, Spells & Snazzlepops

Robyn Cooper · 2016

NZ$17.50 (€8.77 | $9.67 | £7.32 | ¥1,544)

Makaro Press 2016 Paperback, 164pp. Charlie is sick of living in a house with door handles that drop off and a mum with no money. It’s time for him to take the family finances into his own hands. TV chef Pierre Pascal has got rich from serving up weird stuff like frog legs and...

The Sam & Lucy Fables

Alan Bagnall · 2016

NZ$19.50 (€9.78 | $10.77 | £8.16 | ¥1,720)

Submarine Books 2016 Paperback, 48pp. The Sam & Lucy Fables shares the adventures of two clever pigs, Sam and Lucy, who are always keen to help their human friends in peculiar predicaments. From fixing magic carpets to teaching fish to read, Sam and Lucy solve each conundrum w...

Polaroid Nights

Lizzie Harwood · 2021

NZ$25.50 (€12.78 | $14.09 | £10.67 | ¥2,249)

Cuba Press Limited 2021 Paperback, 194pp. ""Auckland city bars, 1996, when the click / whirr of a Polaroid 600 proved you were living your best life. Betty\'s is on repeat: waitress till late, drink till dawn, in bed to forget. But partying like there\'s no tomorrow is no fix ...

A Sky Of Wretched Shells

Mark Blackham · 2021

NZ$19.50 (€9.78 | $10.77 | £8.16 | ¥1,720)

Cuba Press Limited 2021 Paperback, 189pp. "On an atoll not far from now, nor far from here, we meet a young man named Mala, who is eager to discover the secrets of his island home. Woleai is strangely unaffected by changes wreaking havoc across the rest of the planet – and Mal...

Both Feet In Paradise

Andy Southall · 2023

NZ$19.50 (€9.78 | $10.77 | £8.16 | ¥1,720)

Harlequin Worldwide Suspense 2023 Paperback, 384pp. After months of researching butterflies in Sāmoa, Adam is looking forward to returning home to his family. Then his transfer to the airport doesn’t arrive. Worse, a hastily arranged taxi takes him not to departures but an emp...

We Are Tiny Beneath The Light

Heidi North · 2019

NZ$21.50 (€10.78 | $11.88 | £8.99 | ¥1,896)

Cuba Press Limited 2019 Paperback, 60pp. We are tiny beneath the light charts the end of a marriage and the tumble of tiny moments that make up a life under stress, including the unexpected discoveries that can still bring joy – watching a child fly a blue kite or weaving word...

A Habit Of Writing

Helen Jacobs · 2020

NZ$19.50 (€9.78 | $10.77 | £8.16 | ¥1,720)

Cuba Press Limited 2020 Softcover, 58pp. Helen Jacobs wrote her first poem nearly fifty years ago in response to a TV programme on nuclear war. Elaine Jakobsson in her life as a local body politician and environmental activist - mayor of Eastbourne, she worked for the Women\'s...

A Tale Of Love

Linda Lê · 2018

NZ$19.50 (€9.78 | $10.77 | £8.16 | ¥1,720)

Makaro Press 2018 Paperback, 200pp. Ylane and Ivan meet for the first time in the library of a psychiatric hospital, falling instantly and deeply in love. In the shelter of the clinic they find happiness, but release into the outside world is frightening and love becomes a str...

The Birds Began To Sing: a Memoir of a New Zealand Composer

Dorothy Buchanan · 2021

NZ$35.50 (€17.80 | $19.62 | £14.85 | ¥3,131)

The Cuba Press 2021 Paperback. Dorothy Buchanan is a prolific, much loved and much awarded composer, who pioneered the composer-in-schools scheme and has been a force in music and music-making in Aotearoa for over half a century. (ISBN: 9781988595450). Mint.

Don\'t Forget To Feed the Cat: the Travel Letters And Sketches of Stewart Bell Maclennan

Mary Bell Thornton · 2019

NZ$23.50 (€11.78 | $12.99 | £9.83 | ¥2,073)

The Cuba Press 2019 Paperback. The 1958 travel letters and sketches of Stewart Bell Maclennan. \'Hello my dears, I\'m writing this in the train which is stopped at the moment at Salzberg for passport examination. So if the writing becomes erratic, you\'ll know I\'m on the way ...

Moon Boy

Kathy Sutcliffe · 2018

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.65 | ¥1,191)

Makaro Press 2018 Paperback, 297pp. Kat and Eru are new in town and trying to find their way. Not easy when her mum\'s in a relationship with his mum, and he\'s not your usual sort of guy: Maori with the palest skin and blond dreads and - strangest of all - no ears. More moon ...

Moon Boy

Kathy Sutcliffe · 2018

NZ$17.50 (€8.77 | $9.67 | £7.32 | ¥1,544)

Makaro Press 2018 Paperback, 297pp. Kat and Eru are new in town and trying to find their way. Not easy when her mum\'s in a relationship with his mum, and he\'s not your usual sort of guy: Maori with the palest skin and blond dreads and - strangest of all - no ears. More moon ...

The Boat That Brought Me The Lively Memoir Of A Diplomat, Husband And Self Confessed Cricket Tragic

Nick Bridge · 2019

NZ$25.50 (€12.78 | $14.09 | £10.67 | ¥2,249)

Cuba Press 2019 Softcover, 132pp. The only New Zealander to have been attacked by a library, former diplomat Nick Bridge writes of his liberation from English class constraints and an education at a Hampshire prep school to the opportunities of 1950s New Zealand and a co-ed st...

The Invading Sea: Coastal Hazards And Climate Change In Aotearoa New Zealand

Neville Peat · 2018

NZ$19.50 (€9.78 | $10.77 | £8.16 | ¥1,720)

Cuba Press 2018 Softcover, 240pp. Low-lying coast is a chronically grim frontline of climate change, socially and economically, and the frontline with the most to lose.\' New Zealand\'s coastline is under attack. When cyclones and king tides coincide, there is double trouble a...

The Invading Sea: Coastal Hazards And Climate Change In Aotearoa New Zealand

Neville Peat · 2018

NZ$19.50 (€9.78 | $10.77 | £8.16 | ¥1,720)

Cuba Press 2018 Softcover, 240pp. Low-lying coast is a chronically grim frontline of climate change, socially and economically, and the frontline with the most to lose.\' New Zealand\'s coastline is under attack. When cyclones and king tides coincide, there is double trouble a...