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Recipient of Michael King Fellowship talks about 'The Villa at the Edge of the Empire'. Audio

Fiona Farrell has been awarded the $100,000 Creative New Zealand Michael King Writer's Fellowship to research and write twin books, one fiction and one non-fiction, inspired by her experiences of the… Audio

David Hill reviews 'The Quake Year' by Fiona Farrell, Canterbury University Press/Nationwide Books. Audio

Christchurch writer Fiona Farrell offers revealing stories in her book of interviews called The Quake Year. Audio

Dealing with the aftermath of the earthquake Fiona looks things up. She discovers a poem and an account of the Lisbon earthquake in 1755. Audio

Stopped for lunch Fiona feels the quake on the 22nd of February 2011, but the car radio reveals the true impact. Audio

Jolted awake by the earthquake on the 4th of September 2010, Fiona and her community are relieved no one has died. Audio

The year Fiona noticed everything getting bigger, this masculinist era we're living in and how her granddaughter changes Fiona's perception when they walk together. Audio

Some history on Fiona's home in Banks Peninsula and what runs through her mind on her morning walk. Audio

Fiona walks her granddaughter down the steepest street in the world thinking about being in the autumn of her life and being accompanied by Spring. Audio

Walking a track in France following the same path as Robert Louis Stevenson's, 'Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes'. Audio

Walking out of necessity and walking for pleasure - Fiona rediscovers the latter while on the Katherine Mansfield fellowship in Menton in the south of France. Audio

Fiona Farrell attended the opening night of the venue's first show, Short Cut to Happiness, and provides us with an insight into the edgy new space. Audio

'Fleur: The life and times of pioneering restaurateur Fleur Sullivan', by Fleur Sullivan; and 'The Broken Book', by Fiona Farrell. Audio

Writer of novels, short stories, plays, poems and non-fiction, and Robert Burns fellow 2011 at the University of Otago. Her new travel book of essays and poems is The Broken Book. Audio

Rae McGregor reviews 'Limestone: A Novel' by Fiona Farrell. Published by Vintage. Audio

Akaroa writer and accommodation provider on the Banks Peninsula Track, who has just had published her new novel, Limestone. Audio