Fiona Farrell

Books on prize lists

• Limestone

  Written in English

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  NZ Book Awards 2010 · Shortlist

  Limestone

  Limestone

  Fiona Farrell · 62 when first published

  Novel · 240 pages · Family

  AIAI-generated summary:A New Zealand art historian in her late forties travels to a conference in Ireland, meaning also to find the Irish father who went out for cigarettes when she was a child and never came back.

• Book Book

  Written in English

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  NZ Book Awards 2005 · Shortlist

  Book Book

  Book Book

  Fiona Farrell · 57 when first published

  Novel · 368 pages · Autofiction, Coming of age

  AIAI-generated summary:As war is fought in the Middle East, a New Zealand woman loses herself in ancient eyewitness accounts of a Persian war, and looks back on a life shaped by the books she has read since an Otago childhood.

• The Hopeful Traveller

  Written in English

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  NZ Book Awards 2003 · Shortlist

  The Hopeful Traveller

  The Hopeful Traveller

  Fiona Farrell · 55 when first published

  Novel · Historical

  AIAI-generated summary:In 1851 a party of English idealists founds a utopian colony on a small island off New Zealand; in 2001 six friends spend a night on the same island to mark a fiftieth birthday.