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A State of Siege & The Rainbirds by Janet Frame
$19.99 NZD
$38.00 (47% off)
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Series: The Janet Frame Collection | Reading Level: very good
"She is a giant among prose writers in English. It is impossible to call yourself well-read if you have not yet discovered Janet Frame"- Stephanie Dowrick, Sydney Morning HeraldHere at last is the opportunity for New Zealand readers to discover two of Janet Frame's most cinematic novels, highly readable ...Show more
An Angel at My Table - The Complete Autobiography by Janet Frame; Jane Campion (Introduction by)
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'Janet Frame's luminous words are the more precious because they were snatched from the jaws of the disaster of her early life. It is one of the classics of autobiography. She knew that a writer must search her soul in order to say anything that is essential' HILARY MANTEL'Janet Frame is the greatest Ne ...Show more
Between My Father and the King: New and Collected Stories by Janet Frame
$29.95 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction
This brand new collection of 28 short stories by Janet Frame spans the length of her career and contains some of the best she wrote. None of these stories has been published in a collection before, and more than half are published for the first time in Between My Father and the King. Previously publishe ...Show more
Faces in the Water & The Edge of the Alphabet by Janet Frame
$19.99 NZD
$34.99 (42% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
An omnibus of two early novelsIn Faces in the Water (first published in 1961), Janet Frame responded to her doctor's suggestion that 'as I was obviously suffering from the effects of my long stay in hospital in New Zealand, I should write my story of that time to give me a clearer view of my future'. Th ...Show more
Gorse is Not People - New and Uncollected Stories by Janet Frame
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: good
This brand new collection of 28 short stories by Janet Frame spans the length of her career and contains some of the best she wrote. None of these stories has been published in a collection before, and more than half are published for the first time in Gorse is Not People. The title story caused Frame a ...Show more
Intensive Care and Daughter Buffalo by Janet Frame
$19.99 NZD
$34.99 (42% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: The Janet Frame Collection | Reading Level: very good
Extending from World War I to an imagined twenty-first century, Intensive Care (first published in 1970) highlights the appalling treatment of the physically and mentally sick. Tom Livingstone, young and wounded in the trenches of Flanders, must learn the value of life and subsequently the value of deat ...Show more
Janet Frame - An Autobiography. To the Is-land, An Angel at my Table, The Envoy from Mirror City by Janet Frame
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography | Reading Level: very good
Janet Frame brings the skill of an extraordinary novelist and poet to these vivid and haunting recollections, gathere here for the first time in a single edition and complemented by previously unpublished photographs.
Living in the Maniototo by Janet Frame
$19.99 NZD
$29.99 (33% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
“Quirky, rich, eccentric” was Margaret Atwood’s response in the New York Times when this dazzling, award-winning novel appeared in 1979. Through the eyes of a woman of myriad personalities — ventriloquist, gossip and writer — Janet Frame playfully explores the process of writing fiction: the avoidances, ...Show more
Mona Minim and the Smell of the Sun by Janet Frame
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Janet Frame wrote this story in 1969 for her niece Pamela. This year we reissue this excellent story for children in a beautiful illustrated flexibind gift edition, with ribbon marker. Mona Minim is a house ant about to make her first journey out of the nest. But her excitement at smelling new things, e ...Show more
Prizes: the Best of Janet Frame's Short Stories by Janet Frame
$6.50 NZD
$34.99 (81% off)
Category: Literature | Reading Level: Very Good
The most comprehensive selection of Janet Frame's stories ever published, taken from the four different collections released during her life time and featuring the best stories she wrote. The stories included here were written over four decades, from her first collection THE LAGOON AND OTHER STORIES fir ...Show more
Scented Gardens for the Blind and the Adaptable Man by Janet Frame
$19.99 NZD
$34.99 (42% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Hailed by one reviewer as 'likely a work of genius', Scented Gardens For The Blind (first published in 1963) ostensibly follows the members of the fractured Glace family, suffering from different forms of sensory deprivation - the daughter mute, the mother blind, the father estranged - yet each living i ...Show more
The Carpathians by Janet Frame
$19.99 NZD
$29.99 (33% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: The Janet Frame Collection | Reading Level: near fine
What happens when the town of Puamahara begins to profit from its legend and the astronomers discovering the Gravity Star predict an unthinkable future? Mattina Brecon, a New Yorker, arrives in Kowhai Street, Puamahara, where her painstaking study of her neighbours is interrupted by a new kind of catacl ...Show more