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All Day at the Movies by Fiona Kidman
Category: Fiction
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 by Fiona Kidman
Category: Audio
Fiona Kidman's early stories about New Zealand women's experiences scandalised 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's ...Show more
All The Way To Summer by Fiona Kidman
Category: Audio
Fiona Kidman's early stories about New Zealand women's experiences scandalised 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's ...Show more
Songs from the Violet Cafe by Fiona Kidman
Category: Fiction
A woman rows across a lake with a small part-Asian child. The woman is Violet Trench, who in future years will run the Violet Caf? with an iron will.Those who work in her caf? come from a diverse range of backgrounds, but each with their own troubles and each affected by working for this enigmatic woman ...Show more
The Captive Wife by Fiona Kidman
Category: Australian History
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 Captive Wife (Popular Penguin) by Fiona Kidman
Category: Fiction
A prize-winning novel that has become a New Zealand classic. 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 s ...Show more
The Infinite Air by Fiona Kidman
Category: 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
This Mortal Boy by Fiona Kidman
Category: Fiction
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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