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Fiona Kidman

New Zealand (b.1940)

Dame Fiona Kidman, DNZM, OBE, is a respected and popular New Zealand novelist, poet and scriptwriter.

Novels

   A Breed of Women (1979)
   Mandarin Summer (1982)
   Paddy's Puzzle (1984)
     aka In the Clear Light
   The Book of Secrets (1987)
   Palm Prints (1994)
   True Stars (1995)
   Ricochet Baby (1996)
   The House Within (1998)
   A Needle in the Heart (2002)
   Songs from the Violet Cafe (2003)
   The Captive Wife (2005)
   The Infinite Air (2013)
   All Day at the Movies (2018)
   This Mortal Boy (2018)

Collections

   Honey and Bitters (poems) (1975)
   On the Tightrope (poems) (1978)
   Mrs. Dixon and Friend (1982)
   Unsuitable Friends (1988)
   Wakeful Nights (poems) (1991)
   The Foreign Woman (1993)
   The Best of Fiona Kidman's Short Stories (1998)
   The Trouble with Fire (2011)
   All the Way to Summer (2020)

Plays

Search for Sister Blue (1975)

Novellas

Preservation (2013)

Anthologies edited

   New Zealand Love Stories (2000)
   Best of New Zealand Fiction: Vol 1 (2004)
   The Best New Zealand Fiction, Volume 2 (2006)

Non fiction

   Gone North (1986) (with Jane Usher)
   At the End of Darwin Road (2008)
   Better than Fiction 2 (2015) (with Sophie Cunningham, Dave Eggers, M J Hyland, Lloyd Jones, Marina Lewycka, Alexander McCall Smith, D B C Pierre, Francine Prose and Jane Smiley)
   So Far, For Now (2022)

Fiona Kidman recommends

The Swimmers (2022)
Chloe Lane
"A beautiful, heart-rending and totally absorbing narrative, a compulsive page turner from start to end - it's a little masterpiece."

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