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Book Book by Fiona Farrell
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
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: Fiction
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
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
Mr Allbone's Ferrets by Fiona Farrell
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
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: NZ Fiction
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 Villa at the Edge of the Empire by Fiona Farrell
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
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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