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Decline and Fall on Savage Street by Fiona Farrell
$38.00 NZD
Category: 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
Limestone by Fiona Farrell
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand 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
Mr Allbone's Ferrets by Fiona Farrell
$27.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Dop 2007, Auckland An historical, pastoral, satirical, scientifical romance, with mustelids. A young man out poaching. A beautiful maiden in a mysterious house. A perilous voyage to distant islands. All the ingredients of a highly coloured Victorian romance are played out in the context of the great col ...Show more
The Deck by Fiona Farrell
$37.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand 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: New Zealand 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 Skinny Louie Book (Popular Penguin) by Fiona Farrell
$13.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: Very Good
Skinny Louie, daughter of Shanghai Lil, has a baby in the Begonia House on the day of the royal visit. Maura finds the baby and takes it home. Tia grows up with magical powers into the brave new world of the twenty-first century. Fiona Farrell's The Skinny Louie Book - always moving, often hilarious - i ...Show more
The Villa at the Edge of the Empire by Fiona Farrell
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand 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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