Nobody knows more about what has happened in a small community than the people who live in it. Especially if their families have lived there for generations. And so it is with True Tales - Kawau Island, a new book just out this month.

But what is the reality of island life? Who actually moves there? What do they do all day? Fact and fiction mingle as members of the Kawau Island "Bookworms" tell stories of discovery, love and laughter, fate, family, and friends.

When Laura McKenzie returned to Kawau Island with her friend Cass to live in her missing grandmother's cottage, it was a dream come true.

... Kawau.' 'Perhaps we've discovered them,' said Jane as she started back towards the beach. 'Starr's glow-worm. Well, there can't be many people who've tried to get up this silly valley at night. Up what is obviously not the track. The ...

A collection of new and selected poems; some poems appeared first appeared in Kookaburra (Kawau Island's magazine), New Zealand Poetry Society's anthologies, Takahe, or Words over the water.