The earth moves according to its geological time, while upon it the lives and times of humans move by different rhythms. One house is the place where these forces interact. Fiona Farrell's new novel Decline and Fall on Savage Street, tracing the lives in one house through the twentieth century to the Christchurch earthquakes, is this week's Book of the Week. 

>> Read Stella's review. 

>> Extracts. 

>> Fiona Farrell on 'Standing Room Only': Sunday 6.8.17, 1:45. 

>> The author on writing the book. 

>> "Writing big" (whatever that means). 

>> A white-hot response. 

>> What makes a city a city? 

>> Fiona's writing day. 

>> Naughty reading secrets.