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An Angel At My Table by Janet Frame
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
With a heartfelt introduction from Jane Campion. Janet Frame brings the skill of an extraordinary novelist and poet to these vivid and haunting recollections. Gathered here in a single edition are the three parts of Janet Frame's autobiography. From a childhood and adolescence spent in a materially poor ...Show more
An Angel At My Table (Janet Frame Autobiography Omnibus) by Janet Frame
$19.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Gathered here in a single edition are the three parts of Janet Frame's autobiography. From a childhood and adolescence spent in a materially poor but intellectually intense railway family, through life as a student and years of incarceration in mental hospitals (essentially for wanting to pursue a caree ...Show more
An Angel at My Table - The Complete Autobiography by Janet Frame
$43.50 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The autobiography of New Zealand's most significant writer New Zealand's preeminent writer Janet Frame brings the skill of an extraordinary novelist and poet to these vivid and haunting recollections, gathered here for the first time in a single volume. From a childhood and adolescence spent in a poor b ...Show more
An Angel at My Table - The Complete Autobiography by Janet Frame; Jane Campion (Introduction by)
$0.00 AUD
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
Between My Father and the King: New and Collected Stories by Janet Frame
$29.95 AUD
Category: 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 by Janet Frame
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In 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 the future.' This writing evolved into an in ...Show more
In the Memorial Room by Janet Frame
$27.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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
In the Memorial Room (Text Classics) by Janet Frame
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
In the Memorial Room is a brilliant black comedy, by the celebrated author of An Angel at My Table. 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 Fr ...Show more
Living in the Maniototo by Janet Frame
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Through the eyes of a woman of myriad personalities - ventriloquist, gossip and writer - Janet Frame playfully explores the process of writing fiction: the avoidances, interruptions and irrelevancies, as well as a teasing blurring between fact and fiction. The landscape of the Maniototo becomes 'the blo ...Show more
Owls Do Cry: Text Classics by Janet Frame
$14.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
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
The Daylight And The Dust: Selected Short Stories By Janet Frame by Janet Frame
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
Written over four decades and including all of her best stories, this new selection illustrates Janet Frame's dazzling versatility. Her themes range from childhood, to old age, death and beyond. Some stories are firmly rooted in realism and others in glorious fantasy. In Frame's stories life is mysterio ...Show more
The Goose Bath: Poems by Janet Frame
$32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
This is the last great masterwork by a writer nominated 3 times for the Nobel Prize for Literature. A selection of over 100 poems that illustrate the shape of her life: her childhood and the subsequent difficult years in the mental hospitals; her travels, her life as a writer and more.