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Book Book by Fiona Farrell
27.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non 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: NZ 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
Light Readings by Fiona Farrell
24.95 NZD
26.99 (7% off)
Category: NZ Fiction
Collection of Short Stories
The Best New Zealand Fiction: Volume 4 by Fiona Farrell
34.99 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: Contemporary 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
29.99 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
The Villa at the Edge of the Empire by Fiona Farrell
40.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: Very Good
A provocative and insightful exploration of rebuilding our homes, communities and cities after their devastation. Where are we? How did we get here? Where do we go now? From nineteenth-century attempts to create Utopias to America's rustbelt, from Darwin's study of worms to China's phantom cities, this ...Show more
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