{"product_id":"the-furphy-anthology-2024-by-the-furphy-literary-awards-9781761451911","title":"The Furphy Anthology 2024","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition features work from:\u003c\/p\u003e \n\u003cul\u003e \n  \u003cli\u003eKathryn Lomer\u003c\/li\u003e \n  \u003cli\u003eJane Downing\u003c\/li\u003e \n  \u003cli\u003ePaulette Gittins\u003c\/li\u003e \n  \u003cli\u003eElizabeth Walton\u003c\/li\u003e \n  \u003cli\u003eRobert Johnson\u003c\/li\u003e \n  \u003cli\u003eKathy Sharpe\u003c\/li\u003e \n  \u003cli\u003ePaulette Gittins\u003c\/li\u003e \n  \u003cli\u003eAmy St Lawrence\u003c\/li\u003e \n  \u003cli\u003eRowena Harding-Smith\u003c\/li\u003e \n  \u003cli\u003eLesley Boland\u003c\/li\u003e \n  \u003cli\u003eChristine Fontana\u003c\/li\u003e \n  \u003cli\u003eEmma Ashmere\u003c\/li\u003e \n  \u003cli\u003eThomas Allan\u003c\/li\u003e \n  \u003cli\u003ePhillip M. Everett\u003c\/li\u003e \n  \u003cli\u003eDeborah May\u003c\/li\u003e \n  \u003cli\u003eMinh Hiền\u003c\/li\u003e \n\u003c\/ul\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eJoseph Furphy wrote an Australian literary classic, \u003ci\u003eSuch is Life\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1903, under the pen name of ‘Tom Collins’, slang for ‘a tall story’. With its unreliable narrator travelling the countryside and telling the stories of the people he meets along the way, the alias was certainly appropriate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis brother John, a blacksmith, created agricultural implements, most notably the water carts used by the AIF during the First World War. Around these carts, stories were told, legs were pulled, rumours gathered momentum, and the term ‘furphy’ became part of the Australian lexicon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Furphy Literary Award was established in 1992. It became a national competition for the first time in 2020, which led to the first of the short stories being published. \u003ci\u003eThe Furphy Anthology 2024\u003c\/i\u003e features the sixteen short stories judged to be the best of the best in this year’s Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Arotahi Agency","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48244572750060,"sku":"9781761451911","price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781761451911-the-furphy-anthology-2024-1.jpg?v=1788002466","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-furphy-anthology-2024-by-the-furphy-literary-awards-9781761451911","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}