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A State of Siege & The Rainbirds by Janet Frame
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | 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 - An Autobiography Volume 2 by Janet Frame
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
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 - An Autobiography: Volume Two by Janet Frame
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
The autobiography of New Zealand's most significant writerNew 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 bu ...Show more
An Angel at My Table - An Autobiography Volume Two by Janet Frame
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | Reading Level: very good
An Angel at my Table is the second book of Janet Frame's three-volume autobiography, described by Michael Holroyd as 'one of the greatest autobiographies written this century'. It follows her life as a student and years of incarceration in mental hospitals. First published in 1984, it won the Non-fictio ...Show more
Daughter Buffalo by Janet Frame
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Dr Talbot Edelman is obsessed by the mechanics of dying. Not his own death, for he is still a young man, but by the memory of his grandfather. He changes his speciality to Death Studies and by operations on his dog, Sally, establishes her as an honorary person. When the dog dies and his girlfriend leave ...Show more
Daughter Buffalo by Janet Frame
$40.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Dr Talbot Edelman is obsessed by the mechanics of dying. Not his own death, for he is still a young man, but by the memory of his grandfather. He changes his speciality to Death Studies and by operations on his dog, Sally, establishes her as an honorary person. When the dog dies and his girlfriend leave ...Show more
Faces in the Water & The Edge of the Alphabet by Janet Frame
$16.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand 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
Intensive Care - A Novel by Janet Frame
$55.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Janet Frame - An Autobiography. To the Is-land, An Angel at my Table, The Envoy from Mirror City by Janet Frame
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Literature | 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.
Mona Minim and the Smell of the Sun by Janet Frame
$12.00 NZD
Category: 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