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Hollins' poems are exquisite snapshots of love, loss, childhood, uncurled ferns and pohutukawa trees. They are at once chilling yet humorous, familiar yet absurd. They evoke an afternoon at a beachside cafe: the patrons, like his poems, seem to have been gathered from every corner of the earth, yet they feel comfortingly familiar like the voice of an old friend.

Gala, a young New Zealand woman, is fleeing a relationship. She leaves a note on the table next to her wedding ring. With her guitar and daughter in tow, she leaves LA and takes the bus to Texas. Three days later she arrives at midnight with only a few dollars in her pocket and a single phone number. Will she be able to find sanctuary, love and fortune in this unfamiliar country where people struggle to even understand her accent? ¿'and the...

Kleiner Fuchs und die Schlange Yellow Belli führen ein glückliches Leben auf der Wiese. Doch eines Tages kommen zwei große Fremde. Sie sind hier, um die Tiere zu vertreiben und einen neuen Winterpalast für die Bärenkönigin zu bauen. Die beiden Freunde begeben sich auf ein Abenteuer, um die Bärenkönigin umzustimmen und die Wiese zu retten. Sie entdecken, dass im Mondsteingebirge nicht alles in Ordnung ist. ¿ Hört zu, bitte, Kleiner Fuchs vers...

Little Fox and Yellow Belly the snake are living a happy life in the meadow. But one day a strange animal arrives on a boat. It's Pobo the Platypus. He's looking for a hero to save the faraway Island of Parrots from sinking into the ocean. Are Little Fox and Yellow Belly able to save the island or have they Finally met their match? ¿ Yellow Belly lifted his tail and wiped a tear out of his eye." You really are brave." Green Bum began to cry, w...

The classic story of Waiheke's settler families Now with a section on the island's indigenous history by historian, Paul Monin Beautifully written, filled with entertaining anecdotes, Waiheke Pioneers is a gem of historical storytelling It all started with listening to some of the stories told around our kitchen table. I found them so interesting that I started to jot them down. I suppose I've been collecting the island's history in ...

Kleiner Fuchs und die Schlange Yellow Belli führen ein glückliches Leben auf der Wiese. Doch eines Tages kommen zwei große Fremde. Sie sind hier, um die Tiere zu vertreiben und einen neuen Winterpalast für die Bärenkönigin zu bauen. Die beiden Freunde begeben sich auf ein Abenteuer, um die Bärenkönigin umzustimmen und die Wiese zu retten. Sie entdecken, dass im Mondsteingebirge nicht alles in Ordnung ist. Hört zu, bitte, Kleiner Fuchs versucht...

Little Fox and Yellow Belly the snake are living a happy life in the meadow. But one day two big strangers arrive. They are here to force out the animals and build a new winter palace for the Bear Queen. The two friends set off on an adventure to plead with the Bear Queen and save the meadow. They discover that all is not well in the Moonstone Mountains. "Look, please, " Little Fox desperately tried to think of something that would save him. ...

Why does a world-famous woman ask down-and-out private investigator Harry Mann to find her missing teenage daughter, Angela? What exactly do they see in each other's eyes? And why is anyone who has anything to do with Angela ending up dead? Why does concert pianist Hari Manze agree to perform for a crazed African dictator, who is building a Tower of Babel up to his brother, Christ, in the Kgalagadi desert? Why is he preparing a feast for eve...

Imaginative, funny, fast-paced Sci-fi for kids and grown-ups The Peels are a happy ordinary family of cybernetic aliens living on the nearby planet, Neeble Nobber Land. The family are excited to see the Earth's Acrobat's show, humans from Planet Earth performing marvelous circus tricks. Little do they know that they are about to be drawn into a murderous plot to start an interplanetary trade war.

The Little Book of Remedies is an Illustrated handbook to accompany the Lasavia vibrational remedy range. This Book covers the fundamentals of how to use vibrational remedies and the ideas behind them. It includes a commentary on each of Lasavia's thirty-five vibrational remedies which are divided into six ranges: wild weeds, native plants, birds, insects, minerals and trauma blends.

A Pattern of Shades is funny, thoughtful and moving. It's an authentic, biting, yet sympathetic portrait of rugged, communal life on Great Barrier Island in the 80s. It's 1984, Robert Muldoon calls a snap election, and on a remote gulf island, a group of young mums decide to hold an election night ball with a special floorshow. Mouse, an introverted single mum, living in a boatshed and tormented by her inner dragons, has created the floorsh...

From beneath the floor boards of an old abandoned hospital a stench is eminating. Small town New Zealand will never be the same again. Stench begins innocently enough, but grows into an intense and fantastic tale that will seize your imagination and refuse to let it go. This is Mike Johnson at his gripping and Gothic best. "a teen-flick horror movie set in small town New Zealand... a consummate performance." - The New Zealand Review of...

1526 is an Interlocking puzzle of characters and situations bound together by a central mystery - an entertaining epic, speckled with folklore, romance and battle that brings the early 16th century to life. Turkish forces destroy the Hungarian army and kill the king, throwing the realm into turmoil. In Renaissance Eisenberg, the Lutheran countess struggles against the humanist bishop for control of the city, while the count fights his way ho...

From a girl growing up in Hawkes Bay to a woman living on Waiheke Island, 'My First Pash and Other Stories' offers a series of entertaining tales of a life lived in New Zealand. At times gipping, funny, tragic, and cathartic, these stories condense the experience of a whole life into a few pages. In her warm, frank and colloquial style, Soljak also offers a subtle yet biting critique of New Zealand society.

I¿ve got a little gift for you. I`ve kept it all this time. It¿s a funny little something that I wish was mine.For young children it begins with the sounds of words, and the delight of those sounds. Sounds come before meaning. Delight comes before sense. Silly nonsense turns into fun.These little poems sound good read aloud by an adult or older child, as their true audience is children who have not yet learned to read or are just learning. Sim...

Singlets, Briefs, & Shorts is a must-have for collectors, and initiates, of contemporary New Zealand poetry. It's a broad, powerful and celebratory anthology, showcasing established and emerging poets. The book fuses a love of poetry with a love of arthouse films as each poem takes a short film from the Show Me Your Shorts festival for its inspiration. This collection contains poems that evoke, others that provoke, or reflect. Some are concept...

Piripai is natural history as prose poetry. It is a story of place, time and a subtle coming of age on the sand dunes between the river and the sea. The book is structured around twenty-six birds that inhabited Piripai, and ordered according to the time of year, beginning in spring and ending in winter. It is suffused with observation and memory, conveyed in a stripped-back style that both evokes and abstracts. Through the eyes of the book's t...

A beautiful, whimsical and enchanting fable of a rabbit, a woodcutter, a princess and the moon - Illustrator Ingrid Berzins has teamed up with poet Mike Johnson to produce this exquisite book. They made a house out of bricks and sand and sticky stuff but forgot to put in windows.

Ever popular thirteenth century Persian poet Rumi acts as poetic inspiration and intermediary in this powerful collection of love poems. At turns sacred and mystical, historic and contemporary, this suite of original verse sparkles with intensity and perceptiveness. Hide Your Eyes: The Rumi Poems explores the fraught interface between divine and profane love, where the mystical and earthly meet. These original poems draw from the world of t...

Jane Dawson is fourteen years old, lives with her mum and older sister, loves drawing and wears an old leather flying helmet. Facing another dull term at school, Jane loses herself in her art. But when a boy, Bailey Summer, moves in three doors down, with brooding good looks and a long grey trenchcoat, Jane is drawn out of her introspective world. The two collaborate. He writes. She draws. Their friendship grows. Yet there is something odd abo...