52 stories, one for every week of the year. Some light and frothy, some dark and devious, some sweet and magical, and some just downright cheeky, heres a book of stories for those who might have given up on stories. Consider them the truffles at the feast, to savour and enjoy! These stories will lighten up any holiday or dull momenten routeto your ownparadiseisland. Meet Harry the hobbit, who receives a most unusual gift a magical typewriter on a mission a criminally inclined fantail an art thief with a moral imperative three bewitching beach beauties and their victim a group of smokers making their last stand aman who cant stop walking in circles a taniwha trapped in an elevator shaft Stock Car Sally wholl go all the way, bumper to bumper an amateur realtor from hell a political sausagea boatie with a mist that wont go awaya suitcase with its own agendaa drunk reporter who sobers up at his own funeral,and many more. Those of us who live onislandsknow the remote, bounded world they inhabit and will recognise the unbearable closeness of being they endure. We have found ourfreedom in confinement. But dont take our word for it we are storytellers of the most unreliable kind.Mike JohnsonsParadiseIslandis a place where memory and nostalgia mix and reality is lapped at every day by the tides of rediscovery. Back in the day, of course, it would have been so much simpler. Greg Treadwell, exeditor of the Gulf News, Hauraki Gulf. Written with wit, charm and colourful layers that...

Binding: Paperback;270 pages; Publisher: Lasavia Publishing; Classification: N/A; Weight: 521.43 g; Dimensions: N/A

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