Xlibris Nz: 203 books

After a gap in publishing of more than 20 years, recent poems have appeared in UK and NZ literary magazines, with a selection published by Auckland University Press in AUP New Poets Four, 2011: This excellent poet a kind of Ted Hughes crossed with Bukowski Gwilym Williams, Pulsar Poetry Harold Joness...

From the valleys of Te Urewera to the hinterlands of the South Island, and across to the red, dusty lands of Australia, these stories weave through a landscape of adventure and amusement, populated by larger-than-life characters. These were men and women who lived whole-heartedly their back-country...

In Life Changing, Alasdair Thompson outlines the events surrounding his sacking as chief executive of the Employers and Manufacturers Association, New Zealands largest business membership organisation, after twelve years of reorganisation and rebuilding the Association. He reveals his upbringing,...

I am a local man who is unable to work due to a disabling back injury caused in a truck accident in 2006, I am currently on the invalids benefit. I have a positive mental attitude and firmly believe that when one door closes another door opens. I also believe that knowledge is the key to a brighter...

When Christina was a little girls all she ever wanted was to be a nurse she thought all her chances were ruined when she became pregnant at seventeen. Suprisingly she managed to achieve her dream as a mature student Many amazing things happened along the way her journey in life that she believes has...

Bruce is a cheeky Kiwi boy who has a real sweet toothespecially for his favourite food, ice cream. He takes you on a journey of his dream to be able to eat only ice cream for a day. But it doesnt quite turn out how he thought it would.

Most of these poems were written with specific jazz tunes playing in my head. As I wrote each poem, the lines sang themselves into fragments, time was displaced, and reharmonization occurred. What started as one thing gradually became another. The remaining poems were written with the song lines of...

Sione Poilangi Paea, in his first book, presents his inspirational life story. This remarkable individual shows that anyone can overcome their lot in life and become successful. Sione was born in Tonga, into extreme poverty. His life was one of despair and tarnished dreams. His mother, a Christian,...

In the normal course of one's life, forty two days is a drop in the ocean. None of us usually do much with such a small drop. Given the opportunity to realise one's dream or destiny, forty two days is a lifetime. This is a true account of those days, magnified in a way that enables the reader to share...

Your five senses represent the five elements of nature. When I see progressive systems, smell fragrant flowers, hear good stories, speak about leadership, and read and think positive thoughts, I want to change systems. For as Bernard Shaw rightly quotes, The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;...

Prepare to be captivated by simplicity and gentleness. Be ready to share the poet's anger at some of the outrageous happenings that threaten our lives and the beauty of the earth. Travelogue takes you on a world tour where you will walk quietly beside a gently flowing river in Ambleside, dance...

Poems in this volume cover current themes on politics, power, and control in most major hot spots on the globe. Using deft poetic devices, serious in some poems and spoof in others, Marshall is able to draw the readers interest into these events. His acute poetic observation of control and its detrimental...

Out of the Blue invites the young reader along on a thrilling adventure with two school friends, Jack and Casey. The opening of this tale finds the two friends finishing a week of school and planning what to do during the weekend. This is to be a weekend like no other weekend! Jack and Casey are embroiled...

Brian La Trobe retired from Dental practice in 1986 to pursue his environmental interests. He designed South Africas first energy from waste programme using the landfill site of Grahamstown South Africa. Later, on behalf of the South African Research Commission, he researched and developed a sanitation...