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Book Book

By Fiona Farrell
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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,... Read More
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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 β€” 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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781869416195

Publisher: Random House New Zealand Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 September 2004

Country: New Zealand

Imprint: Vintage New Zealand

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 126.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 334g

Pages: 368

Collections

Fiction Fiona Farrell General Fiction Literary Fiction New Zealand and Australia Published New Zealand Poets New Zealand Published Penguin Books

About the Author

Born in Oamaru and educated at Otago and Toronto, Fiona Farrell has been writing since the 1980s. To date she has published two books of poetry, two collections of short stories and three novels. Her novel The Skinny Louie Book won the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction in 1992, and she has won many other awards, including the Bruce Mason Award for Playwrights and the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship in Menton.

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