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“fiona kidman”

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  • All Day at the Movies

    by Fiona Kidman ...
    **Plumes of flame pierced the night sky, curling and licking and caressing the hurrying clouds, and there was nothing anyone could do except watch the crop burn ...**In 1952, war widow Irene Sandie takes up work in New Zealand's tobacco fields, hoping to build a new life for herself and her daughter. But this bold act of female self-sufficiency triggers a sequence of events whose repercussions are ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Book of Secrets

    by Fiona Kidman ...
    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 from Scotland in 1817 to found a settlement in Nova Scotia, then subsequently to New Zealand via ... Read more

    $13.19 CAD

  • The Best of Fiona Kidman's Short Stories

    by Fiona Kidman ...
    An engrossing collection of short stories from one of New Zealand's most distinguished writers. Fiona Kidman first wrote short stories in the 1960s and has continued to publish them in books, magazines and journals ever since. Her style has evolved as she has explored different forms over the years, but her piercingly vivid realisations of everyday people have remained a characteristic of her ... Read more

    $12.09 CAD

  • Captive Wife, The

    by Fiona Kidman ...
    When Betty Guard steps ashore in Sydney, in 1834, she meets with a heroine's welcome. Her survival during a four-month kidnapping ordeal amongst Taranaki Maori is hailed as nothing short of a miracle. But questions about what really happened slowly surface within the ,lite governing circles of the raw new town of Sydney. Jacky Guard, ex-convict turned whaler, had taken Betty as his wife to his New ... Read more

    $13.19 CAD

  • At The End Of Darwin Road: A Memoir

    A Memoir

    by Fiona Kidman ...
    'What I have to tell is largely a personal narrative about how I came to inhabit a fictional world' This absorbing memoir explores the first half of writer Fiona Kidman's life, notably in Kerikeri amid the 'sharp citric scent of orange groves, bright heat and . . . the shadow of Asia' - at the end of Darwin Road. From the distance of France, where Kidman spent time as the Katherine Mansfield ... Read more

    $15.39 CAD

  • The Trouble With Fire

    by Fiona Kidman ...
    A beautiful collection of stories by a pre-eminent writer, shortlisted for major awards. 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 ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • A Breed of Women

    by Fiona Kidman ...
    A bestselling and influential novel, this compulsive story examines women's changing lives. 'One thing she had learnt was that she and Leonie belonged to a breed of women who were indestructible. They were survivors.' Taking risks is something Harriet seems driven to do as she struggles to retain her identity as a woman in the face of opposing demands from society. Through her adolescence in ... Read more

    $12.09 CAD

  • The Infinite Air

    by Fiona Kidman ...
    **LONGLISTED FOR THE IMPAC DUBLIN AWARD. The tale of the glamorous and pioneering woman known as 'the Garbo of the Skies'.**1909. In Rotorua, New Zealand, Nellie Batten pins a picture of legendary pilot Louis Blériot above the cot of her newborn daughter, Jean.1934. Jean Batten climbs into the cockpit of her Gipsy Moth, aiming to beat Amy Johnson's solo flight record from England to Australia ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • This Mortal Boy

    by Fiona Kidman ...
    The offender is not one of ours. It is unfortunate that we got this undesirable from his homeland.'Auckland, October 1955. If young Paddy Black sings to himself he can almost see himself back home in Belfast. Yet, less than two years after sailing across the globe in search of a better life, here he stands in a prison cell awaiting trial for murder. He pulled a knife at the jukebox that night, but ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • All the Way to Summer

    by Fiona Kidman ...
    **A powerful collection of stories exploring love and longing, from the award-winning author of *This Mortal Boy.***Two mothers fight about wearing a hat on their children's wedding day. A needle is lost inside a woman's body. A writer waits with a suitcase for a man who never comes.In thirteen short stories written over several decades, Dame Fiona Kidman vividly evokes the glow of desire and the ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Songs from the Violet Café

    by Fiona Kidman ...
    New Zealand, 1943. Violet Trench crosses Lake Rotorua with a small boy, Wing Lee, but rows back alone.Twenty years later, the same body of water is the scene of an event that will have lasting repercussions for Violet and her employees at the café she now runs on the lake shore. The lives of these young people will diverge, their paths to independence taking them as far apart as Cambodia and the ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • All the Way to Summer

    Stories of love and longing

    by Fiona Kidman ...
    A powerful collection of stories exploring love and longing from an exceptional writer. 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. Her writing made her a feminist icon in the early 1980s, and she has since continued to tell the realities of women ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD