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A State of Siege & The Rainbirds by Janet Frame
35.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: The Janet Frame Collection
"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)
35.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir | 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
Gorse is Not People - New and Uncollected Stories by Janet Frame
40.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
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
In the Memorial Room by Janet Frame
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Harry Gill, a moderately successful writer of historical fiction, has been awarded the annual Watercress-Armstrong Fellowship-a 'living memorial' to the poet, Margaret Rose Hurndell. He arrives in the small French village of Menton, where Hurndell once lived and worked, to write. But the Memorial Room i ...Show more
Janet Frame In Her Own Words by Janet Frame
30.00 NZD
42.00 (28% off)
Category: Biography/Memoir
'It is the desire really to make myself a first person. For many years I was a third person - as children are, 'they', 'she', and as probably oppressed minorities become, 'they'. - Janet Frame, radio interview about writing her autobiography (1983). For the first time ever, this collection brings togeth ...Show more
Mona Minim and the Smell of the Sun by Janet Frame
19.95 NZD
Category: Children
Currently Out of Print See new edition. Mona Minim is a house ant about to make her first journey out of the nest. But her excitment at smelling new things, especially the sunlight, turns to terror when one false step plunges her into a quite an unexpected adventure. Befriended by Barbara, a garden a ...Show more
Owls Do Cry: Text Classics by Janet Frame
16.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Text Classics
So the day promised fair, and the sea lay like a quilt with the waves tucked under, and the trees wavering like leafless water, cut to fit from a transparent block of blue air and frost. Owls Do Cry tells the story of the Withers family: Francie, who is twelve and about to start work at the woollen mill ...Show more
Scented Gardens for the Blind and the Adaptable Man by Janet Frame
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
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 Goose Bath by Janet Frame
30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: The Janet Frame Collection
'The sweet daily bread of language. Smell it rising in its given warmth taste it through the stink of tears and yesterdays and eat it anywhere with any angel in sight.' Janet Frame used to keep geese, using the base of an old garden fountain as their bath. In later years the geese went but the bath was ...Show more
The Goose Bath Poems by Janet Frame
40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
'The sweet daily bread of language. Smell it rising in its given warmth taste it through the stink of tears and yesterdays and eat it anywhere with any angel in sight.' Janet Frame used to keep geese, using the base of an old garden fountain as their bath. In later years the geese went but the bath was ...Show more
Towards Another Summer by Janet Frame
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
'The Southern Cross cuts through my heart instead of through the sky.' A weekend away from home. But where is home? Is it London? Or New Zealand? Grace Cleave, expatriate novelist living in London, is holidaying in the north of England. Her host asks why she has abandoned her homeland: 'Don't you ever w ...Show more
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