Mr Allbones Ferrets

Author : Fiona Farrell
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781869796228

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Mr Allbones' Ferrets by Fiona Farrell Pdf

An historical, pastoral, satirical, scientifical romance, with mustelids! A young man out poaching. A beautiful maiden in a mysterious house. A perilous voyage to distant islands. All the ingredients of a highly coloured Victorian romance are played out in the context of the great colonial experiment. Exotic species travelled back to stock the collections of Europe while useful species were dispatched to found new colonies in the antipodes. Walter Allbones really existed. So did his ferrets. From these facts, Fiona Farrell has spun a delicate, satirical fantasy about human folly and the perils attendant on disturbing the subtle balance of nature.

Author : Val Porter,Nicholas Brown
Publisher : Michael Joseph
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Ferret
ISBN : 072071592X

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The Complete Book of Ferrets by Val Porter,Nicholas Brown Pdf

Author : Fiona Farrell
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781775582021

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The Pop-up Book of Invasions by Fiona Farrell Pdf

Offering poems that draw vividly on the landscape, history, and mythology of Ireland—while making connections with her home and childhood—this collection of poems reflects the author's personal journey and the many "invasions" of past and present. She adapts and transforms several ancient Irish texts, rewriting their stories for a contemporary world.

Author : Fiona Farrell
Publisher : Vintage Books USA
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Books and reading
ISBN : 1869416198

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Book Book by Fiona Farrell Pdf

An evocative and moving mix of memoir and fiction from an award-winning novelist. 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 - offering mystery and solace, entertainment and enlightenment. From The Little Red Hen to Owls Do Cry, from T.S. Eliot to Aphra Behn, this frequently funny, always original novel is another extraordinary offering from the author of The Hopeful Traveller.

Author : Fiona Farrell
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781775581710

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The Broken Book by Fiona Farrell Pdf

A mix of poetry and prose, this compilation by New Zealand's Fiona Ferrell is simultaneously a memoir, a meandering travel book, and a poetry collection. Demonstrating how a natural disaster can turn a life upside down in an instant, this book consists of four essays about walking, interrupted by poems about the Christchurch earthquakes and their aftermath. Funny, timely, and deeply personal, it will resonate with a wide range of readers due to its references to France, Dunedin, Christchurch, Robert Louis Stevenson, Katherine Mansfield, and Voltaire.

Author : Robert McKay,Susan McHugh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031248726

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Animal Satire by Robert McKay,Susan McHugh Pdf

Animal Satire presents a cultural history of animal satire, a critically neglected but persistent presence in the history of cultural production, in which animals expose human folly while the strategies of satire expose the folly of human-animal relations. Highlighting the teeming animal presences across the history of satirical expression from Aristophanes to Twitter, with chapters on key works of literature, drama, film, and a plethora of satirical media, Animal Satire reveals the rich rhetorical significance of animality in powering the politics of satire from ancient and medieval through modern and contemporary times. More pressingly, the book makes the case for the significance of satire for understanding the real-world implications of rhetoric about animals in ongoing struggles for justice. By gathering both critical and creative examples from representative media forms, historical periods, and continents, this volume aims to enrich scholarship on the history of satire as well as empower creative practitioners with ideas about its practical applications today.

Author : Fiona Farrell
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781869791698

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Limestone by Fiona Farrell Pdf

A fabulous multi-levelled novel, shortlisted for the Montana NZ Book Awards. Clare Lacey is on a quest. In Ireland to attend an art history conference, she sets out to find her father who walked out one day to buy a packet of cigarettes when she was a child, and disappeared. She is urged on her way by chance encounters: with a woman in a high tower, a blind man at a crossroads, a singer whose song she does not understand . . . Clues lie all around on a labyrinth of walls - but the final clue lies deep within. With Irish roots and a nod to the Irish classic, The Year of the Hiker by John B. Keane, this is a contemporary novel about inheritance, belief, art, love . . . and limestone.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCSD:31822036342517

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The Publishers Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Fiona Farrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : New Zealand fiction
ISBN : 1869414578

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Light Readings by Fiona Farrell Pdf

Author : Fiona Farrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0143573756

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The Skinny Louie Book by Fiona Farrell Pdf

"Skinny Louie, daughter of Shanghai Lil, has a baby in the Begonia House on the day of the royal visit. Maura finds the baby and takes it home. Tia grows up with magical powers into the brave new world of the twenty-first century"--Publisher information.

Author : Fiona Farrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132779856

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Limestone by Fiona Farrell Pdf

A contemporary novel about inheritance, belief, art, love...and limestone.

Author : Fiona Farrell
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781869799502

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The Strange Case of the Disappearing Body by Fiona Farrell Pdf

An astute short story that challenges the formulaic and inhumane murder mysteries of television. A body is found floating in the bottom of a swimming pool. The police have no leads. Might the nosy cleaner have a theory about this strange case? After all, she is well used to reading the mess that people leave lying all around. Award-winning writer Fiona Farrell offers a refreshing take on death and justice in this intriguing mystery.

Author : Fiona Farrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029130254

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The Inhabited Initial by Fiona Farrell Pdf

A collection of poems with a light and dancing quality.

Author : Fiona Farrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0140168079

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The Skinny Louie Book by Fiona Farrell Pdf

This novel was first published in 1992 and has been out of print for two years. It won the fiction section of the New Zealand Book Awards in 1993. It is based around the story of two unusual girls growing up in New Zealand. The author was awarded the Mansfield Fellowship in Menton, France in 1996.

Author : Fiona Farrell
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781775537526

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The Villa At the Edge of the Empire by Fiona Farrell Pdf

A provocative and insightful exploration of rebuilding our homes, communities and cities after their devastation. Where are we? How did we get here? Where do we go now? From nineteenth-century attempts to create Utopias to America’s rustbelt, from Darwin’s study of worms to China’s phantom cities, this work ranges widely through history and around the world. It examines the evolution of cities and of Christchurch in particular, looking at its swampy origins and its present reconstruction following the recent destructive earthquakes. And it takes us to L’Aquila in Italy to observe another shaken city. Farrell writes as a citizen caught up in a devastated city in an era when political ideology has transformed the citizen to ‘an asset, the raw material on which . . . empire makes its profit’. In a hundred tiny pieces, she comments on contentious issues, such as the fate of a cathedral, the closure of schools, the role of insurers, the plans for civic venues. Through personal observation, conversations with friends, a close reading of everything from the daily newspaper to records of other upheavals in Pompeii and Berlin, this dazzling book explores community, the love of place and, ultimately, regeneration and renewal.