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All Day at the Movies by Fiona Kidman
$38.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: Very Good
Wry, moving, beautifully observed and politically astute, this latest novel from one of our finest chroniclers pinpoints universal truths through very New Zealand lives. Life isn't always like it appears in the movies. In 1952, Irene Sandle takes her young daughter to Motueka. Irene was widowed during ...Show more
All the Way to Summer - Stories of Love and Longing by Fiona Kidman
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A powerful collection of stories exploring love and longing from the award-winning author of This Mortal Boy. Fiona Kidman's early stories about New Zealand women's experiences scandalised readers with their vivid depictions of the heartbreaks and joys of desire, illicit liaisons and unconventional love ...Show more
At the End of Darwin Road by Fiona Kidman
$34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good-very good
This absorbing memoir explores the first half of writer Fiona Kidman's life, notably in Kerikeri in Northland. From the distance of France, she reconsiders the past. A vivid memoir of place and family, and of becoming a writer. First published March 2008.
So Far, For Now by Fiona Kidman
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir
Evocative, wry and thought-provoking, this is a rewarding journey with one of our finest writers. It is a little over a decade since Fiona Kidman wrote her last volume of memoir. But her story did not end on its last page; instead her life since has been busier than ever, filled with significant changes ...Show more
The Book of Secrets by Fiona Kidman
$24.99 NZD
Category: FICTION
A classic, prize-winning novel about an epic migration and a lone woman haunted by the past in frontier Waipu. In the 1850s, a group of settlers established a community at Waipu in the northern part of New Zealand. They were led there by a stern preacher, Norman McLeod. The community had followed him f ...Show more
The Captive Wife by Fiona Kidman
$28.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
When Betty Guard steps ashore in Sydney in 1834, she meets with a heroine’s welcome — as befits a brave young woman who has survived being kidnapped by Taranaki Maori. But questions about Betty and her husband Jacky, a convict turned whaler, trouble the governing elite of the raw new town. Based on true ...Show more
The Infinite Air by Fiona Kidman
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
A superbly written novel offering an intriguing interpretation of one of the world's greatest aviators, the glamorous and mysterious Jean Batten. Jean Batten became an international icon in the 1930s. A brave, beautiful woman, she made a number of heroic solo flights across the world. The newspapers co ...Show more
The Infinite Air by Fiona Kidman
$30.00 NZD
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Category: NZ Fiction
"A superbly written novel offering an intriguing interpretation of one of the world s greatest aviators, the glamorous and mysterious Jean Batten. Batten became an international icon in the 1930s. A brave, beautiful woman, she made a number of heroic solo flights across the world. The newspapers couldn ...Show more
The Trouble With Fire by Fiona Kidman
$36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Fiona Kidman has a genius for peeling back the lives of ordinary people to reveal their hidden passions and complexities. In this brilliant new collection, she explores - with her customary subtlety and insight - how we are all touched and sometimes scarred by the flames of emotion - whether it be the i ...Show more
This Change in the Light - A collection of poems by Fiona Kidman
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Poetry | Reading Level: very good
A superb collection of poetry from one of New Zealand's top writers. Fiona Kidman's exquisite and adroit poetry invites the reader into her life, introducing us to her family, friends and places she has loved. In turn it touches our own experiences, offering universal relevance and insight.
This Mortal Boy by Fiona Kidman
$10.00 NZD
$27.99 (64% off)
Category: FICTION | Reading Level: very good
An utterly compelling recreation of the events that led to one of the last executions in New Zealand. Albert Black, known as the 'jukebox killer', was only twenty when he was convicted of murdering another young man in a fight at a milk bar in Auckland on 26 July 1955. His crime fuelled growing moral pa ...Show more
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