Cuba press wellington (42 resultados)

Soft Covers. Condición: Very Good. None. First Edition. 24 cm, 243 pp, soft covers. A lovely copy.

Soft Covers. Condición: Very Good. None. First Edition. 23 cm, 240 pp, b&w photo illus, soft covers. VG copy.

Soft Covers. Condición: Very Good. None. First Edition. 20 cm, 321 pp, soft covers. VG copy.

Illustrated Papered Boards. Condición: Very Good. None. First Edition. 22 cm, 35 pp, illus, illus papered boards. VG copy. Dine (ilustrador).

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Franny is AWOL from her French translation job, her cat-sitting gig is making her anxious, and an obsessive personal project is shooting off in more directions than the London Underground. She needs to leave the UK and return home.But Aotearoa turns out to be less relaxing than she thought it would be, because she keeps running into people she'd rather avoid. Wellington is a nostalgia trip on repeat and the last thing Franny needs is distraction. For her own reasons, she is researching suicide, and the material she's unearthing is almost overwhelming.Bit by bit Wellington begins to grow on her. She finds herself chatting to a woman over kumara wedges, getting real with a nonagenarian aunt and attending a 'die-in' at a bank to protest global extinction. Meanwhile, Franny books a seat to watch the parliamentary debates for the End of Life Choice bill, and her research takes a startling turn .And How Are Things With You is shot through with the dark humour and dry observations that readers loved in Footnotes to Sex, a novel British broadcaster Bidisha described as 'Seinfeld meets Dorothy Parker'. And How Are Things With You is shot through with the dark humour and dry observations that readers loved in Footnotes to Sex, a novel British broadcaster Bidisha described as Seinfeld meets Dorothy Parker. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. In Aue eight-year-old Arama was taken by his brother, Taukiri, to live with Kat and Stu at the farm in Kaikoura, setting in train the tragedy that unfolded. Arama's aunty Kat was at the centre of events, but silenced by abuse her voice was absent from the story. In Kataraina, Kat and her whanau take over the telling. As one, they return to her childhood and the time when she first began to feel the greenness of the swamp in her veins - the swamp that holds her tears and the tears of her tipuna, the swamp on the land owned by Stu that has been growing since the girl shot the man. Becky Manawatu's new novel is the much-awaited sequel to award-winning bestseller Aue and is unflinching in its portrayal of the destructive ways people love one another and the ancestral whenua on which they stand. Becky Manawatu's new novel, the much-awaited sequel to award-winning bestseller Aue. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Soft Covers. Condición: As New. None. First Edition. 21 cm, 150 pp, pen & ink illus and colour photo illus, soft covers. As new. An off-grid house on Aotea Great Barrier Island promises to fulfil one man's dreams, until cracks start to appear. Part Man Alone, part love story, Island Notes explores questions of belonging, loss and impermanence and whether the life, seas and forests of a wild island can offer a reconciliation with our past. Award-winning science writer and advocate for the wilderness Tim Higham has written a memoir that draws inspiration from some of the great nature writers, while establishing his own distinctive and informed voice and a sense of place that could only be Aotearoa -- publisher information.…

Paperback. Condición: As New. 60 pages. For a while, living a digital life was like beinga successful swan. Dign ified gliding over the lakelike you understood the way the world worked, the world being hard bright stones at the bottomof the lake and you on the s urface, held up.Is our identity more of a composite than we realise? We often think of ourselves as formed from our core values or our DNA, but in this volume of poetry Mary Macpherson explores identity as a creation of the in teractions we have with others: friends, family and the wider world, and the evo lving role technology now plays in this. A playful and provocative collection th at drills into our social and media selves using elements from short stories, ar t projects and films.…

Paperback. Condición: As New. 60 pages. ?We are tiny beneath the light? charts the en d 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 ch ild fly a blue kite or weaving words to make sense of sorrow. Heidi?s second c ollection manages to speak of the beautiful and the ugly in a single breath, and out of enormity creates small parcels of light.…

Paperback. Condición: As New. 232 pages. r nose pierced, and the next her dad has disappeared. Now there?s a new home, a new school and new friends that are not really friends at all. Awkward Alice w ho forgets her lunch is not a great substitute, nor is the monster gnawing at Ha rriet?s insides that makes her binge on food. But then Alice invites her to th e best tree fort ever ? a place where Harriet no longer feels fat or friendles s or sad, and where the bird with the rusty-red feathers comes to show her what she can?t see for herself. mmerce-Tabs-panel--additional_information entry-content id=tab-additional_info rmation role=tabpanel aria-labelledby=tab-title-additional_information>.…

Paperback. Condición: As New. 58 pages. Saradha?s new collection, Photos of the Sky, starts with a declaration; end s in realisation. In between is a journey of reaching across the Tasman, shiftin g to a new home, reaching a place of disquiet and starting again. The full spect rum of emotions brings with it rain, sweat, tears, wildflowers and the promise o f snow.…

Paperback. Condición: As New. 68 pages. Fifty years after she arrived in New Zealand from Los Angeles, Mary Cresswell ?s focus is unchanged. As a poet with a scientist?s concern for detail she i s still drawn to nature and what humanity has done with it. Seascapes are rocky and forbidding, landscapes are arid and treeless, and drones keep an eye on us. The few surviving animals?one frog and two birds?speculate on ?extinction? ?? even as it is happening to them, just as the poet describes the strange parad ox of the pandemic that on one hand threatens humanity and on the other allows t he planet to breathe again. Mary uses word-play, satire and absurdity to tell he r story, and puts the body politic centre stage as the cause of and agent for re pairing the mess we are in. …

Paperback. Condición: As New. 58 pages. Helen Jacobs wrote her first poem nearly fifty ye ars ago in response to a TV programme on nuclear war. Elaine Jakobsson in her li fe as a local body politician and environmental activist - mayor of Eastbourne, she worked for the Women's Electoral Lobby and was later appointed to the Planni ng Tribunal - Helen Jacobs was the name she adopted for her writing. In 1984 she launched her first collection, with five more to come over the years, and becam e actively involved with the poetry community in Christchurch. Aged 90, Helen li ves in a retirement village, has lost her view of the Port Hills and her beloved garden, but still has a balcony of pot plants and survived a pandemic. The worl d continues to offer her things to write about, whether it is the lemons ripenin g outside her window, the jigsaw junkies in the library or a walk to the shops w hen she takes the long way to feel some of the joy of the hill walks she once tr easured. And there are her memories of Patea, where she grew up the daughter of a railwayman. While the quickness of her legs may have gone, Helen's quickness o f mind makes A Habit of Writing a delight.…

Soft Covers. Condición: Very Good. None. First Edition. 23 cm, 189 pp, colour photo illus, soft covers. A lovely copy. ```.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. 180 pages. A crash site memorial for a daughter is disturbed by road workers, a son goes missing after an earthquake, a husband struggles with his wife going into demen tia care, grandparents meet-up with a grandchild they lost contact with when his parents divorced, a late-in-life relationship is broken apart when his health d eclines, a couple who lease out their basement flat discover a former tenant has been linked to a murder .Each of Karen Phillips? stories is like the glass houses in the title story ? small pieces, some opaque and some transluc ent, that offer glimpses of ordinary families whose lives are coming apart, some times in ways imperceptible to the outside eye. Memories of a kinder past are on e way to pull things back together and simple humanity is another, but sometimes the answer is where you least expect it. …

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. 180 pages. A crash site memorial for a daughter is disturbed by road workers, a son goes missing after an earthquake, a husband struggles with his wife going into demen tia care, grandparents meet-up with a grandchild they lost contact with when his parents divorced, a late-in-life relationship is broken apart when his health d eclines, a couple who lease out their basement flat discover a former tenant has been linked to a murder .Each of Karen Phillips? stories is like the glass houses in the title story ? small pieces, some opaque and some transluc ent, that offer glimpses of ordinary families whose lives are coming apart, some times in ways imperceptible to the outside eye. Memories of a kinder past are on e way to pull things back together and simple humanity is another, but sometimes the answer is where you least expect it. …

Paperback. Condición: As New. 74 pages. An avid collector of works of art, and long fascinated by how artists see the wo rld, Peter Bland has drawn together poems for his 85th birthday that he's writte n over the years about paintings and the visual image. Never the name-dropper or cultural snob, Bland lines up art by a child alongside art by Brueghel or Gaugu in, and then takes the reader into the story of the painter or the painting, bot h shining new light and deepening the mystery. …

Paperback. Condición: As New. 96 pages. I walk into Ema Saik??s room to find the poet herself at the writing desk , long hair scraped back in a bun. She wears an embroidered robe. Tea? I offer. It seems the right thing to do.I let her choose the teapot. I was tossin g up between late evening blue and bright green. She claps her hands and says so mething about bamboo. So I go with the green one that looks like a Dalek._____________The poems in Janis Freegard?s new collection take their star ting point from the poet?s daily ritual of reading the tea leaves while writin g in the Ema Saik? room in the Wairarapa. This leads to unexpected discoveries about the world around her, from spider visitors to the writing room and a papyr us-fine gecko skin in the nearby wildlife sanctuary, to news of the ancient bdel loid rotifers that defy natural disasters and the recently extinct amphibians th at did not. Then a gender- and species-fluid interpreter turns up to help the po et work her way through the daily revelations in her tea cup ?Reading the Signs is a series of linked poems that are thoughtful and humorous, provoca tive and tender, and come together as a quiet epic about a planet that is fast r unning out of puff.…

Paperback. Condición: As New. 194 pages. Auckland city bars, 1996, when the click / whirr of a Polaroid 600 proved you were living your best life. Betty's is on repeat: w aitress till late, drink till dawn, in bed to forget. But partying like there's no tomorrow is no fix for the problems crowding in. Her ex is back and drinking at her favourite haunts, her flat was burgled and she faces eviction if she can' t pay late rent. And then there's the serial rapist called the Psychic who's ter rorising women in their homes. When her ex is murdered and left in her bed, Bett y and her flatmate Alabama turn to the bar world to find out who did it. Was it the Psychic - or someone closer? Polaroid Nights fizzes with the wild energy of the city nightlife of 1990s Auckland. It's compulsive reading - pitch-perfect wi th wicked humour and a dark hinterland that chills and fascinates in equal measu re. Don't miss this brilliant debut, the inaugural winner of the NZSA Laura Solo mon Cuba Press Prize.…

Paperback. Condición: As New. 98 pages. Kay McKenzie Cooke chronicles life as it comes to her ? the quotidian happe nings in and around her home in Dunedin and further south where she grew up, and not-so-ordinary upturned world she experiences when she visits her son in Berli n. And then there are those things that seem ordinary enough until the poet flip s them over so she can locate the beating heart.Wh?nau and t?puna (Kay is Ng?i Tahu and P?keh?) and the natural world are the places Kay is happiest and she writes with candour about grief and joy, loss and discovery. What comes through time and again in her work is a deep resilience born of always having o ne eye on the great mountains and rivers of the south and the other on the small things people hold close to make sense of an increasingly perplexing world.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. 350 pages. ?With expert control of narrative and language Andy Southall slowly reveals that everything is not as it seems.?? Pip Adam, author of 'Nothing to S ee' and 'New Animals' Adam is looking forward to returning home to his family. Then his transfer to th e airport doesn?t arrive. Worse, a hastily arranged taxi takes him not to depa rtures but an empty field in the middle of nowhere, and he misses his flight. As he fails to find alternative ways off the island ? other flights, ferries, ev en seagoing yachts ? he grows increasingly frustrated, especially as all overs eas phone lines and emails seem to be down as well. Eve, who offers to help him. He decides he has to trust her, for there is no one else. Yet he has a strange feeling he?s met her before ? in Paradise' is a masterpiece of storytelling that suspends the reader in a worl d of relentless beauty ? where one step forward is two steps back and nothing and no one can be relied on, least of all yourself.…

Paperback. Condición: As New. 226 pages. Stewart Bell Maclennan was the first Director of New Zealand's National Art G allery, and the first full-time professional director of a public art gallery in New Zealand. In 1958 he spent six months in Europe and America, visiting galler ies and museums to gather ideas. At home in Wellington his wife and four childre n eagerly awaited his letters, following his progress with coloured flags on a m ap on the lounge wall. His daughter, Mary Bell Thornton, has now put together a delightful collection of the letters to and from Stewart and his family ? includ ing some of the sketches he made while travelling. A frank and intimate record o f the art world of the 1950s, and packed with humour. boxes 1789 and 1790).…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Marketing executive Alison Morris bets her reputation on a project to sell empathy in a perfume bottle. Her husband, Jim, is inspired to try a similar thing in a game he's developing - sinking all their money into EmPath, where people progress by learning to understand one another without direct communication. All at once Alison's fragrance develops dangerous effects and Jim's game falters in the market, then the chemist working on the perfume project vanishes. His son, David, seems to be the only one looking for him. A widower with two children, David is a man of routine who just wants to get on with his life, but his love for his father takes him into a murky world where empathy can be bought and sold and can lead to murder. Powerful new novel by the author of Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize finalist Entanglement, set in contemporary US with a Kiwi protagonist. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Soft Covers. Condición: Very Good. None. First Edition. 24 cm, 270 pp, map, b&w (and some colour) photo illus, soft covers. VG copy. Irish men and women came to New Zealand in the 1930s to seek a better life, many carrying bitter memories of atrocities committed by the British. With WWII came the threat of conscription, but many Irish refused to betray their neutral homeland to fight for New Zealand and, by default, Britain. Peter Burke's father was one of the Sons of Eire - men who risked imprisonment and deportation by standing up to the New Zealand Government and appealing the draft in a dramatic case that paved the way for others, --Back cover.…

Soft Covers. Condición: Very Good. None. First Edition. 24 cm, 270 pp, map, b&w (and some colour) photo illus, soft covers. Author-signed gift inscription to half title. VG copy. Irish men and women came to New Zealand in the 1930s to seek a better life, many carrying bitter memories of atrocities committed by the British. With WWII came the threat of conscription, but many Irish refused to betray their neutral homeland to fight for New Zealand and, by default, Britain. Peter Burke's father was one of the Sons of Eire - men who risked imprisonment and deportation by standing up to the New Zealand Government and appealing the draft in a dramatic case that paved the way for others, --Back cover. Signed by Author(s).…

Illustrated Papered Boards. Condición: Very Good. None. First Edition. 22 x 27 cm landscape, 251 pp, (mostly) colour photo illus, illus papered boards. VG copy. A heavy book - overseas buyers please ask regards postage.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. 251 pages. 'Ken Kendalls deep desire to live by his art took him around the world through thick and very often thin. For forty years his res ponse to what he saw took form, initially in ceramic and terracotta, then flouri shing in bronze, with many sculptures cast by the artist himself. From life-size works to cotton-reel people, Kens humour and fundamental understanding of the h uman condition transformed his materials, and eventually after years struggling to make a living as a sculptor brought him artistic recognition and an internati onal following. Told in his own words, A Bronze Affair is the story of how Ken w ent from school teacher to Franciscan monk and master sculptor.'.…

Illustrated Papered Boards. Condición: New. None. First Edition. 24 cm, 248 pp, plans, b&w and colour photo illus, illus papered boards. New copy.

Paperback. Condición: As New. 140 pages. Ylane and Ivan meet for the first time in the lib rary of a psychiatric hospital, falling instantly and deeply in love. In the she lter of the clinic they find happiness, but release into the outside world is fr ightening and love becomes a struggle as reality intrudes. And yet this reality strangely has more in common with a fairy tale with its monsters and lost childr en and one true love. And like a fairy tale, there is always the sense of the na rrator watching and writing it all down. This is a novel as much about the power of reading and writing to transform as it is about the transformation of love. Both give the young lovers the opportunity to recover and recreate themselves, b ut Ylane and Ivan discover that just as there are always two sides to a page, so there is no single answer to the questions that besiege them. French Vietnamese author Linda Lê's novel is a powerful and many-faceted tale brought into Engli sh for the first time by New Zealand translator and writer Sian Robyns.…

Paperback. Condición: As New. 60 pages. In the year he turned 85, Peter Bland suffered a stroke. An actor and poet, h e?d always had a facility for writing and speaking, and now both were no longe r easy. But Peter started writing again, slowly by hand at first and then on his trusty electric typewriter. His daughter videoed him reading his work to post o n his Facebook page.The poems Peter wrote are 'Nowhere is too far off', a collection where memories of past journeys jostle with the immediacy of living on a hill in Mount Eden when there?s shopping to do and no easy way to do it. It is as if the borders of his life are dissolving: wolves lick his hand, bored angels are waiting and his home has become a wilderness. Peter Bland?s 25th co llection, packed with this poet?s curiosity, humour and warmth, is a signal to the world that words haven?t failed him yet.…