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Book Book by Fiona Farrell
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This isn't strictly autobiography nor is it entirely fiction, but, through a story of a life, it shows that books have a certain function and this is the way they have functioned in this life: as something mysterious, consolatory, instructive, enlightening and amusing. The life in itself - of the growth ...Show more
Decline and Fall on Savage Street by Fiona Farrell
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
A fascinating novel about a house with a fanciful little turret, built by a river. Unfolding within its rooms are lives of event and emotional upheaval. A lot happens. And the tumultuous events of the twentieth century also leave their mark, from war to economic collapse, the deaths of presidents and pr ...Show more
Fiona Farrell - Nouns, verbs, etc (selected poems) by Fiona Farrell
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
One of New Zealand's most versatile writers, Fiona Farrell has published four collections of poetry over 25 years, from Cutting Out (1987) to The Broken Book (2011). Nouns, verbs, etc. collects the best work from these books, and intersperses them with other poems thus far 'uncollected'. The themes are ...Show more
Quake Year by Fiona Farrell; Juliet Nicholas (Photographer)
$42.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: very good
This touching collection of stories focuses on the lives of ordinary people from Christchurch, New Zealand, who have had to cope with the devastation caused by the earthquakes that struck the city on September 4, 2010 and Febraury 22, 2011. Going beyond simply imparting details of the physical damage ca ...Show more
The Best New Zealand Fiction: Volume 4 by Fiona Farrell
$17.50 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
This popular series continues with a new editor, Fiona Farrell, who has scoured the country and beyond for a sampling of the best stories being written by our writers today. She has selected a variety of voices and styles, with vivid images as diverse as a giant turtle burying its eggs in the sand, chil ...Show more
The Deck by Fiona Farrell
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
During a time of plague and profound social collapse, a group of friends escape to a house in the country where they entertain themselves by playing music, eating, drinking and telling stories about their lives. The Deck borrows the motifs of Giovanni Boccaccio's 14th-century masterpiece The Decameron t ...Show more
The Skinny Louie Book (Penguin Award Winning Classics) by Fiona Farrell
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
"Fiona Farrell's first novel - always moving, often hilarious - is a breathtakingly accomplished debut. It presents a head-on confrontation with a New Zealand psyche rarely found in history books.Skinny Louie, daughter of Shanghai Lil, has a baby in the Begonia House on the day of the royal visit. Maura ...Show more
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