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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
Quake Year by Fiona Farrell; Juliet Nicholas (Photographer)
$19.99 NZD
$40.00 (50% off)
Category: New Zealand | 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 Deck by Fiona Farrell
$37.00 NZD
Category: 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: 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: Children | 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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