Makaro press (105 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Like so many people her age, Harriet threw her thoughts down on a blog. However, her reasons for writing were different from her friends, and it was clear from the outset that she was a writer first and foremost. The Book of Hat captivates the reader with its facility for expressing everything…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. A memory-impaired time traveller attempts to correct a tragic mistake he made in 1977 when, panicked, he abandoned his brother on a frozen lake in Baltimore. Decades later, in 2011, a novelist researching at the Centre for Time in Sydney becomes romantically involved with a philosopher from Ne…

Zustand: very_good. Gently read. May have name of previous ownership, or ex-library edition. Binding tight; spine straight and smooth, with no creasing; covers clean and crisp. Minimal signs of handling or shelving. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ship…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. The seaside town of Taiwhenua is besieged by sunsets. They arrive every evening and don't leave until dark. It's the mid-1980s, and Shirley has just moved there from the city with a box of books and a broken heart. The last thing she needs is operatic sunsets, the unwelcome advances of the Puk…

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. 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 than boy. Kathy Sutcliffe lives in Rotorua and works as a teacher…

Softcover. Zustand: New. One day there's a big storm in Wellington and a little cloud gets his wish. He says goodbye to the angry storm cloud and goes off on adventures of his own - trying out different colours and shapes and exploring his city home. And then the wind takes him on an exhilarating ride up the North Island. But so…

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. 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 unnoticed. Invisible. Always coming in second. Not anymore. Aft…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Like so many people her age, Harriet threw her thoughts down on a blog. However, her reasons for writing were different from her friends, and it was clear from the outset that she was a writer first and foremost. The Book of Hat captivates the reader with its facility for expressing everything from the…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 174 pages. Cover worn.The seaside town of Taiwhenua is besieged by sunsets. They arrive every eveni ng and don't leave until dark. It's the mid 1980s, and Shirley has just moved th ere from the city with a box of books and a broken heart. The last thing she nee ds is operatic sunsets, the gatherings of…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. "Ian Harris's 'Faith and Reason' columns - which have featured in the Otago Daily Times for fifteen years, and in The Dominion Post and Touchstone as 'Honest to God' - argue that Christianity in this millennium is not the paradox it appears to be but religion at its most creative. Journalist Harris…

Paperback. Zustand: New. 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 unnoticed. Invisible. Always coming in second. Not anymore. Afte…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Like so many people her age, Harriet threw her thoughts down on a blog. However, her reasons for writing were different from her friends, and it was clear from the outset that she was a writer first and foremost. The Book of Hat captivates the reader with its facility for expressing everything from the…

Paperback. Zustand: New. 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 than boy. Kathy Sutcliffe lives in Rotorua and works as a teacher…

Paperback. Zustand: New. 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 snails, so Charlie starts cooking. After all, the ingredients a…

Paperback. Zustand: New. Making people laugh is what Summer does best. It's how she fits in. And is it any wonder with a family like hers? Top of the list of crazies is Pop, her stingy grandfather, who whips up possum stews and turns chicken scraps into the worst school lunches ever. So why does Juanita suddenly want to be her f…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 82 pages. The bounty of women, how far they?ll go, how far they can stretch ? to lo ve, to encompass, to bear. Find them here: bosom-packed, dreamy, dragging their offspring, twinsets askew, peeling, darning, preening. In Her Limitless Her Reih ana Robinson has created a beguiling space for her to…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 208 pages. Harriet Rowland -- known as Hat -- was 17 when she was diagnosed with osteosa rcoma, a rare form of cancer that began in her knee. At the time she was a stude nt at Queen Margaret College in Wellington, New Zealand. Going through treatment was often a lonely time, as friends -- while sup…

Paperback. Zustand: New. In Her Limitless Her we see the bounty of women, bosom-packed, dreamy, heretical, fecund, dragging their offspring, twinsets askew, peeling, darning, preening. How far they will go, how far they can stretch - "breathing as if it is the only thing she can do. " Spanning time and distance, crossing boundar…

Paperback. Zustand: New. Astrid thinks she is imagining the quiet boy who appears in her room in the middle of the night. He's called Tamati and lives in New Zealand. Astrid lives in Sweden. What's he doing here? And why does he keep turning up? Tamati tells Astrid they are time twins - children born at the exact same time - and…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 272 pages. Jane Carswell began her working life at Pegasus Press shortly after its audac ious publication of Janet Frame's novel Owls Do Cry, and years later she went on to publish a book herself, an award-winning memoir about teaching in China call ed Under the Huang Jiao Tree. The road between on…

Paperback. Zustand: New. No One Home tells the story of Keith Westwater growing up in 1950s New Zealand. At age seven he loses his mother to a botched operation and with her death loses a place to call home. So Keith and his brother take to the road with a gambling father, staying with relatives when their father can't have them…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 272 pages. cover lightly warped, writing on inside coverPeter Godfrey's influence on New Zealand choral music is immeasurable. The on ly person to have been chorister, choral scholar and director of music at King's College, Cambridge, Peter brought his extraordinary drive and passion to choirs in this c…