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Barbara Else

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Invercargill, New Zealand

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http://www.elseware.co.nz

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Contemporary, Children's

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Barbara Else is a playwright and fiction writer, and has also worked as a literary agent, editor and fiction consultant. Else won the Victoria University Writer’s Fellowship in 1999, and was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature in 2005.

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Average rating: 3.71 · 827 ratings · 144 reviews · 32 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Traveling Restaurant: Jasper's Voyage in Three Parts (Tales of Fontania, #1) 3.72 avg rating — 266 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Laughing at the Dark 4.24 avg rating — 127 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Queen and the Nobody Boy (Tales of Fontania, #2) 3.76 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2012 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Warrior Queen 3.38 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Volume of Possible Endings (Tales of Fontania, #3) 3.79 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Go Girl: A Storybook of Epic NZ Women 3.92 avg rating — 37 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Knot Impossible: A Tale of Fontania (Tales of Fontania, #4) 3.79 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gingerbread Husbands liked it 3.00 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harsu and the Werestoat 3.29 avg rating — 17 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eating Peacocks 3.25 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Busy in the back room

It’s ages since I posted anything. I’ve been busy moving house and cities, and working on two new books.

I live in Dunedin now. My study has a view of the Pacific Ocean. Most days there’s a long flat horizon where sea meets sky. Sometimes there’s a huge roll of bumpy cloud far out there at the edge of a mirror-sea. Some days it’s all cloud or mist, and the white chimney of the house over the road s

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“I'm too old to figure out the rights and wrongs of everything.”
― Barbara Else, The Travelling Restaurant: Jasper's Voyage in Three Parts

tags: age, right, right-and-wrong, wrong

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Barbara’s Quotes

“How could meditation help you to quieten your mind when you needed to quieten your mind in order to meditate?”
― Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

tags: meditation

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