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Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness tells the story of the author's mother, Nicola Fuller. Nicola Fuller and her husband were a glamorous and optimistic couple and East Africa lay before them with the promise of all its perfect light, even as the British Empire in which they both believed wane ...Show more
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulnesstells the story of the author's mother, Nicola Fuller. Nicola Fuller and her husband were a glamorous and optimistic couple and East Africa lay before them with the promise of all its perfect light, even as the British Empire in which they both believed waned ...Show more
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
A story of survival and war, love and madness, loyalty and forgiveness, "Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness "is an intimate exploration of Fuller's parents and of the price of being possessed by Africa's uncompromising, fertile, death-dealing land. We follow Tim and Nicola Fuller hopscotching ...Show more
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Picador classics
With an introduction by Anne EnrightShortlisted for the Guardian First Book award, a story of civil war and a family's unbreakable bond.How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to.As ...Show more
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Alexandra Fuller was the daughter of white settlers in 1970s war-torn Rhodesia. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight is a memoir of that time, when a schoolgirl was as likely to carry a shotgun as a satchel. Fuller tells a story of civil war; of a quixotic battle against nature and loss; and of her family ...Show more
Leaving Before the Rains Come by Alexandra Fuller
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
The sequel to Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight. In her twenties Alexandra Fuller embarked on a new journey, into a long, tempestuous marriage to Charlie Ross, the love of her life. In this frank, personal memoir, she charts their twenty years together, from the brutal beauty of the Zambezi to the moun ...Show more
Leaving Before the Rains Come by Alexandra Fuller
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"I believed that if I moored myself to Charlie, I would know tranquility interspersed with organized adventure. He would stay in Zambia because he loved the romance of it. I could remain here, safely. Our lives would be the 'three rifles, supplies for a month and Mozart' of Out of Africa without the pla ...Show more
Scribbling The Cat : Travels with an African Soldier by Alexandra Fuller
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
From the author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight comes a powerful and sometimes painful account of an intense relationship - between a writer, her words, and those she chooses to write about.When Alexandra "Bo" Fuller was in Zambia a few years ago visiting her parents, she asked her father about a ...Show more
The Best American Travel Writing 2019 by Jason Wilson (Editor); Alexandra Fuller (Editor)
$0.00 NZD
Category: Essays & Anthologies | Series: The\Best American Series ® Ser.
An eclectic compendium of the best travel writing essays published in 2018, collected by Alexandra Fuller. BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING gathers together a satisfyingly varied medley of perspectives, all exploring what it means to travel somewhere new. For the past two decades, readers have come to recog ...Show more
The Legend of Colton H Bryant by Alexandra Fuller
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Colton H. Bryant grew up in Wyoming and never once wanted to leave it. Wyoming loved him and he loved it back. Two things helped Colton get through school and the neighbourhood bullies: his best friend Jake and his favourite mantra: Mind over matter -- which meant to him: if you don't mind, it don't ma ...Show more
Travel Light, Move Fast by Alexandra Fuller
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'You can survive more than you'd believe; Dad had told me that. He'd also told me you can survive more than you want; but it's not always up to you, not the enormous things, those are beyond all control...'
Travel Light, Move Fast by Alexandra Fuller
$33.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
From bestselling author Alexandra Fuller, the utterly original story of her father, Tim Fuller, and a deeply felt tribute to a life well lived Six months before he died in Budapest, Tim Fuller turned to his daughter: "Let me tell you the secret to life right now, in case I suddenly give up the ghost." T ...Show more
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