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Book Book by Fiona Farrell
$27.99 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: 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
$38.95 NZD
Category: NZ 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
Limestone by Fiona Farrell
$12.00 NZD
$29.99 (59% off)
Category: FICTION | Reading Level: very good
Clare Lacey is on a quest. In Ireland to attend an Art History conference, she sets out to find her father who walked out one day to buy a pack of cigarettes when she was a child, and disappeared. She is urged on her way by chance encounters: with a woman in a high tower, a blind man at a crossroads, a ...Show more
Quake Year by Fiona Farrell; Juliet Nicholas (Photographer)
$43.95 NZD
Category: NZ History | 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 Villa at the Edge of the Empire by Fiona Farrell
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-fiction | 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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