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Before and after, Christina Stachurski
Remembering Christchurch: Voices from Decades Past Alison Parr Penguin, $45.00, ISBN 9780143573371 A Villa at the End of the Empire: One Hundred Ways to Read a City Fiona Farrell Vintage, $40.00, ISBN 9781775537519 King Rich Joe Bennett HarperCollins, $37.00, ISBN…
Tagged with: Alison Parr, Autumn 2016, Christina Stachurski, Fiona Farrell, HarperCollins, Issue 113, Joe Bennett, Penguin, Vintage
Posted in Non-fiction, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Sociology
Ths pm is lk a brkn cty, Louise O’Brien
The Broken Book Fiona Farrell Auckland University Press, $34.99, ISBN 9781869405762 Renowned for her short fiction, novels, poetry and plays, Fiona Farrell’s distinguished writing career earned her the 2007 New Zealand Prime Minister’s Award for Fiction. This latest work,…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2012, Fiona Farrell, Issue 97, Louise O’Brien
Posted in Essays, Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Essays, Literature, Poetry, Review
A hectic ride, Ruth Nichol
Limestone Fiona Farrell Vintage, $29.99, ISBN 9781869791681 By the time Murray lumbers into view on p15 of Fiona Farrell’s latest novel, Limestone, I knew I was in the hands of a writer who really knows what she’s doing. Dr Clare…
Tagged with: Fiona Farrell, Issue 87, Ruth Nichol, Spring 2009, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Slurries of history, Hugh Roberts
The Year of Adverbs Elizabeth Smither Auckland University Press, $14.95, ISBN 9781869403942 Just Poetry Alistair Te Ariki Campbell HeadworX, $19.99, ISBN 9780473124982 The Pop-up Book of Invasions Fiona Farrell Auckland University Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781869403881 Villon in Millerton James Norcliffe…
Tagged with: Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, Auckland University Press, Elizabeth Smither, Fiona Farrell, HeadworX, Hugh Roberts, Issue 80, Summer 2007
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Seeing as God saw, John McCrystal
Mr Allbones’ Ferrets: An Historical Pastoral Satirical Scientifical Romance, with Mustelids Fiona Farrell Vintage, $27.99, ISBN 9781869418649 “What a book a devil’s chaplain might write,” Charles Darwin exclaimed in a letter to eminent botanist J D Hooker, “on the clumsy,…
Tagged with: Fiona Farrell, Issue 80, John McCrystal, Summer 2007, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Frame with a lighter hand, Mark Williams
Book Book Fiona Farrell Vintage, $26.95, ISBN 1869416198 I associate being in Christchurch with knowing Fiona Farrell. Both of us came down from provincial North Island cities, Hamilton and Palmerston North, in the early 1990s. I came to teach in…
Tagged with: Fiona Farrell, Issue 66, Mark Williams, Vintage, Winter 2004
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Back to the future, Shelagh Duckham Cox
The Hopeful Traveller Fiona Farrell Vintage, $26.95, ISBN 1869415175 This island novel starts either in 1851 with a rail journey to the Crystal Palace in London or in 2001 in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the two…