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Within the clutter of a toy box there are treasures to be found. This is the territory that lies between adulthood and childhood, between dreams and wakefulness, when toys come alive and childhood stpories and songs echo in the adult mind.

Sophia Hardy's character driven poems focus on the lives of several characters affected by Jupiter's nearness to the earth. Sophia Hardy is a debut New Zealand poet who is has published in several New Zealand poetry jounrals and books. Jupiter's Perigee is crisp insight into the lives of both historical and modern people.

two stories, head to toe read one and follow the wormhole to the other. The cockroach knows all the scurrying places down on Insect Street. More than that, it can go to places no other creature can go, into the dark places, the slithering places, the cracks and crevices. The cockroach can eat the darkness. It eats away at the dark walls nobody can see. Its bronze shell protects it, and enables it to make the return to this visible world. Thus ...

Investigative journalist Jason Argonaut is not content to rest on his laurels and dream of past glories. No, he has to take too great an interest in his fascinating new neighbours, play the Grandfather Detective, and find himself in possession of the world best kept secret - or is it? A delicious mix of murder, mayhem and intrigue. Funny, farcical and deadly serious, Hold My Teeth While I Teach You To Dance will hold you in its magic grip to t...

A plague driven band of vagabonds and beggars, calling themselves The Shakespeare Company, arrive at the decaying little town of Babylon, where they perform King Lear in a whirl of mayhem and madness. As the night proceeds, they spin out of control, embodied by their roles. Narrated by the girl Curan, a minor character, this novel is part black comedy, part tragedy, part carnival, and implicitly dystopian. It is a bizarre and disturbing novel ...

Holed up in a Canterbury farmhouse is a family under siege from within - Grandfather in self-imposed exile, Father with a mind overwhelmed by shell-shock, Pito, a spirit that won't sleep, self-righteous Aunt Grin, and a litany of other dysfunctional bullies. But as the past begins to unravel, bones surface, the dumb shows play out, the powers shift and the characters' lives are transformed.