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Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller
40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness tells the story of the author's mother, Nicola Fuller. Nicola Fuller and her husband were a glamorous and optimistic couple and East Africa lay before them with the promise of all its perfect light, even as the British Empire in which they both believed wane ...Show more
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
35.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
In 1972, when Alexandra Fuller was two years old, her parents finally abandoned their English life and returned to what was then Southern Rhodesia and to the beginning of a civil war. By the time she was eight, the war was in full swing. Her parents veered from being determined farmers to being blind dr ...Show more
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Alexandra Fuller was the daughter of white settlers in 1970s war-torn Rhodesia. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight is a memoir of that time, when a schoolgirl was as likely to carry a shotgun as a satchel. Fuller tells a story of civil war; of a quixotic battle against nature and loss; and of her family ...Show more
Leaving Before the Rains Come by Alexandra Fuller
36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
"I believed that if I moored myself to Charlie, I would know tranquility interspersed with organized adventure. He would stay in Zambia because he loved the romance of it. I could remain here, safely. Our lives would be the 'three rifles, supplies for a month and Mozart' of Out of Africa without the pla ...Show more
Scribbling The Cat : Travels with an African Soldier by Alexandra Fuller
27.99 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
From the author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight comes a powerful and sometimes painful account of an intense relationship - between a writer, her words, and those she chooses to write about.When Alexandra "Bo" Fuller was in Zambia a few years ago visiting her parents, she asked her father about a ...Show more
Scribbling the Cat by Alexandra Fuller
34.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
When Alexandra 'Bo' Fuller returns to her parents' farm in Zambia, she meets their charismatic neighbour, 'K', a hauntingly beautiful creature with a violent talent for survival. Helplessly fascinated by this man of extremes, she becomes enmeshed in the stories of his life and recklessly curious about h ...Show more
Travel Light, Move Fast by Alexandra Fuller
32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
From bestselling author Alexandra Fuller, the utterly original story of her father, Tim Fuller, and a deeply felt tribute to a life well lived Six months before he died in Budapest, Tim Fuller turned to his daughter: "Let me tell you the secret to life right now, in case I suddenly give up the ghost." T ...Show more
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