Dame Fiona Kidman is a leading contemporary novelist, short story writer and poet.
Kidman has won numerous awards, and she has been the recipient of fellowships, grants and other significant honours, as well as being a consistent advocate for New Zealand writers and literature.
She is the President of Honour for the New Zealand Book Council, and has been awarded an OBE and a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to literature.
18 Ebooks by Fiona Kidman
Fiona Kidman: Songs from the Violet Café
From the author of The Infinite Air, a powerful story of women’s lives spanning decades and continents.
New Zealand, 1943. Violet Trench crosses Lake Rotorua with a small boy, Wing Lee, but rows …
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Fiona Kidman: All Day at the Movies
Described as a ‘beautiful writer’ by The Times, Fiona Kidman brings us a sweeping saga of family ties, heartbreaks, and learning to live with the past.
‘A universal and honest book’ San Franc …
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Fiona Kidman: This Mortal Boy
Winner of The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2019
Winner of the Ngaio Marsh Crime Writing Awards 2019
Winner of the New Zealand Booklovers Prize for Fiction 2019
Winner of the NZ Heritage Book …
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Fiona Kidman: Jean Batten, Pilotin
Fiona Kidmans Roman erzählt die spannende Lebensgeschichte der neuseeländischen Flugpionierin Jean Batten (1909-1982). In den 1930er Jahren wurde sie als »die Garbo der Lüfte« zur Ikone der modernen …
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€16.99
Fiona Kidman: Needle in the Heart
A collection of six compelling stories linked by a central issue in the lives of the main characters, the defining incident that shapes their futures. The disappearance of a brother; an illegitimate …
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€7.49
Fiona Kidman: Paddy’s Puzzle
An internationally acclaimed novel, the Kirkus Reviews wrote, ‘Shrewdly balanced between earthy tenderness and the dreadful trauma of disillusionment: a grave yet limber narrative – and a very …
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Fiona Kidman: Best of Fiona Kidman’s Short Stories
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, …
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€8.99
Fiona Kidman: Book of Secrets
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 …
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Fiona Kidman: Captive Wife
Based on real events, this prize-winning novel is the compelling story of a marriage, of love and duty, and the quest for freedom in a pioneering age. When Betty Guard steps ashore in Sydney, in …
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€6.99
Fiona Kidman: At the End of Darwin Road
An evocative memoir about the emergence of a pre-eminent writer in a changing world’What I have to tell is largely a personal narrative about how I came to inhabit a fictional world’ This absorbing …
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Fiona Kidman: Infinite Air
A superbly written novel offering an intriguing interpretation of one of the world’s greatest aviators, the glamorous and mysterious Jean Batten. Jean Batten became an international icon in the …
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€11.99
Fiona Kidman: Ricochet Baby
A moving novel, with intelligent and compassionate insight into post-natal depression and the complexities of relationships. ‘When Roberta falls pregnant her whole family is filled with joy.’ Fallen …
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Fiona Kidman: True Stars
Who is trying to scare Rose? This gripping novel is a vivid portrayal of New Zealand in the 1980s. Rose Kendall is alone. She is isolated from her children, her friends, and her political ideals, and …
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Fiona Kidman: Breed of Women
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. …
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Fiona Kidman: Trouble With Fire
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 …
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€10.99
Fiona Kidman: Preservation
A serious but also blackly funny short story about old friendships, love and formaldehyde by one of New Zealand’s most distinguished writers.Now middle-aged, the one-time teenage rebels live staid, …
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€1.99
Steven Amsterdam & Natalie Baszile: Better than Fiction 2
From Lonely Planet, the world’s leading travel guide publisher, Better Than Fiction 2, the follow-up to 2012’s Better Than Fiction, is a second serving of true travel stories told by some of the …
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€8.11
Fiona Kidman: All the Way to Summer
A powerful collection of stories exploring love and longing from the award-winning author of This Mortal Boy.
Two mothers fight over who will wear a hat on their children’s wedding day. A ne …
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€9.99
