Fiona Farrell

Book Book

Vintage 2004 Paperback, 367pp. As war is waged in the Middle East, a woman in New Zealand has her nose in a book. Kate is immersed in other battles, engrossed in eyewitness accounts of an earlier war in ancient Persia. She has grown up, left her Otago home and returned, and in all these years books have shaped her life and made sense of the world - offering mystery and solace, entertainment and enlightenment. In an evocative and moving mix of memoir and fiction, award-winning novelist Fiona Farrell writes of life from The Little Red Hen to Owls Do Cry, from T.S. Eliot to Aphra Behn. Frequently funny, always original, Book Book is another extraordinary offering from the author of The Hopeful Traveller. (ISBN: 9781869416195). Good.

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Fiona Farrell

Book Book

Vintage 2004 Paperback, 367pp. As war is waged in the Middle East, a woman in New Zealand has her nose in a book. Kate is immersed in other battles, engrossed in eyewitness accounts of an earlier war in ancient Persia. She has grown up, left her Otago home and returned, and in all these years books have shaped her life and made sense of the world - offering mystery and solace, entertainment and enlightenment. In an evocative and moving mix of memoir and fiction, award-winning novelist Fiona Farrell writes of life from The Little Red Hen to Owls Do Cry, from T.S. Eliot to Aphra Behn. Frequently funny, always original, Book Book is another extraordinary offering from the author of The Hopeful Traveller. (ISBN: 9781869416195). Very Good.

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Fiona Farrell

Book Book

Vintage 2004 Paperback, 367pp. As war is waged in the Middle East, a woman in New Zealand has her nose in a book. Kate is immersed in other battles, engrossed in eyewitness accounts of an earlier war in ancient Persia. She has grown up, left her Otago home and returned, and in all these years books have shaped her life and made sense of the world - offering mystery and solace, entertainment and enlightenment. In an evocative and moving mix of memoir and fiction, award-winning novelist Fiona Farrell writes of life from The Little Red Hen to Owls Do Cry, from T.S. Eliot to Aphra Behn. Frequently funny, always original, Book Book is another extraordinary offering from the author of The Hopeful Traveller. (ISBN: 9781869416195). Good.

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Keywords: Fiction, NZ, Fiction9781869416195 9781869416195

Fiona Farrell

Book Book

Vintage 2004 Paperback, 367pp. As war is waged in the Middle East, a woman in New Zealand has her nose in a book. Kate is immersed in other battles, engrossed in eyewitness accounts of an earlier war in ancient Persia. She has grown up, left her Otago home and returned, and in all these years books have shaped her life and made sense of the world - offering mystery and solace, entertainment and enlightenment. In an evocative and moving mix of memoir and fiction, award-winning novelist Fiona Farrell writes of life from The Little Red Hen to Owls Do Cry, from T.S. Eliot to Aphra Behn. Frequently funny, always original, Book Book is another extraordinary offering from the author of The Hopeful Traveller. (ISBN: 9781869416195). Very Good.

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Keywords: Fiction, NZ, Fiction9781869416195 9781869416195

Fiona Farrell

Book Book

Vintage 2004 Paperback, 367pp. As war is waged in the Middle East, a woman in New Zealand has her nose in a book. Kate is immersed in other battles, engrossed in eyewitness accounts of an earlier war in ancient Persia. She has grown up, left her Otago home and returned, and in all these years books have shaped her life and made sense of the world - offering mystery and solace, entertainment and enlightenment. In an evocative and moving mix of memoir and fiction, award-winning novelist Fiona Farrell writes of life from The Little Red Hen to Owls Do Cry, from T.S. Eliot to Aphra Behn. Frequently funny, always original, Book Book is another extraordinary offering from the author of The Hopeful Traveller. (ISBN: 9781869416195). Fair.

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Fiona Farrell

Limestone

Vintage 2009 Paperback, 244pp. 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 couple of rotund earthlings, a singer whose song she does not understand . Clues lie all around on a labyrinth of walls - but the final clue lies deep within. With Irish roots and a nod to the Irish classic, The Year of the Hiker by John B. Keane, this is a contemporary novel about inheritance, belief, art, love . and limestone. (ISBN: 9781869791681). Good.

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Farrell, Fiona

The Quake Year

Canterbury University Press, 2012. First Edition, Softcover. Fine Condition. Fine 1st ed 2012 large format Canterbury paperback with stiff covers, many photos. Sent Airmail at no extra cost; Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. The book is available to view in-person at our Cambridge hub. The photos provided are of the actual book for sale, further condition-specific photos may be arranged upon request.

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Fiona Farrell

Six Clever Girls Who Became Famous Women

Penguin 1996 Paperback, 303pp. The first part of this novel is about six girls at school in 1960; later we meet Kathy, Greer, Caroline Heather and Raeleen again in 1995, confronting the issues of middle age. This is the author's second novel. She was awarded the New Zealand Fiction Award for The Skinny Louie Book in 1993. (ISBN: 9780140253566). Good.

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Fiona Farrell

The Skinny Louie Book

Penguin Books (NZ) 1992 Paperback, 285pp. This novel was first published in 1992 and has been out of print for two years. It won the fiction section of the New Zealand Book Awards in 1993. It is based around the story of two unusual girls growing up in New Zealand. The author was awarded the Mansfield Fellowship in Menton, France in 1996. (ISBN: 9780140168075). Good.

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Fiona Farrell

The Villa At the Edge of the Empire

Random House New Zealand Ltd 2015 Paperback. 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 work ranges widely through history and around the world. It examines the evolution of cities and of Christchurch in particular, looking at its swampy origins and its present reconstruction following the recent destructive earthquakes. And it takes us to L'Aquila in Italy to observe another shaken city. Farrell writes as a citizen caught up in a devastated city in an era when political ideology has transformed the citizen to ‘an asset, the raw material on which . empire makes its profit'. In a hundred tiny pieces, she comments on contentious issues, such as the fate of a cathedral, the closure of schools, the role of insurers, the plans for civic venues. Through personal observation, conversations with friends, a close reading of everything from the daily newspaper to records of other upheavals in Pompeii and Berlin, this dazzling book explores community, the love of place and, ultimately, regeneration and renewal. (ISBN: 9781775537519). Very Good.

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Fiona Farrell

The Villa At the Edge of the Empire

Random House New Zealand Ltd 2015 Paperback. 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 work ranges widely through history and around the world. It examines the evolution of cities and of Christchurch in particular, looking at its swampy origins and its present reconstruction following the recent destructive earthquakes. And it takes us to L'Aquila in Italy to observe another shaken city. Farrell writes as a citizen caught up in a devastated city in an era when political ideology has transformed the citizen to ‘an asset, the raw material on which . empire makes its profit'. In a hundred tiny pieces, she comments on contentious issues, such as the fate of a cathedral, the closure of schools, the role of insurers, the plans for civic venues. Through personal observation, conversations with friends, a close reading of everything from the daily newspaper to records of other upheavals in Pompeii and Berlin, this dazzling book explores community, the love of place and, ultimately, regeneration and renewal. Some tanning. (ISBN: 9781775537519). Good.

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