Stakes
A memoir
$31.20
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
2 June 2026
Summary
A darkly funny, sparkling follow-up to the author’s bestselling memoir, Grand.
You have to invite him in. You have to want the vampire’s badness in the house with you.
Growing up in Catholic Ireland, Noelle McCarthy is captivated by Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The vampire is a risk-free fantasy, a suave alternative to the fraught realities of desire.
Twenty years later, exhausted by her unruly appetites, Noelle returns to Dracula, reckoning with her own history and a changi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781776951031 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1776951034 |
| Author: | Noelle McCarthy |
| Publisher: | Penguin Group (NZ) |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 2 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 398g |
| Dimensions: | 154mm x 233mm x 21mm |
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About The Author
Noelle McCarthy
Noelle McCarthy is an author, broadcaster, and producer. Her first memoir, Grand—Becoming My Mother’s Daughter, won Best First Book of Non-Fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards in 2023. That year, she was the writer-in-residence at Victoria University’s International Institute of Modern Letters.
Noelle grew up in Ireland and started her radio career at 95bFM in Auckland in the early 2000s before going on to work at Radio New Zealand for more than a decade. She makes long-form narrative podcasts as Bird of Paradise Productions, alongside her husband, John Daniell.
Noelle lives in Featherston with John, their daughter, and many copies of Dracula.
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