Janet Frame
The Goose Bath
$32.95 (Paperback book / Wilkins Farago )
Twice shortlisted for the Nobel Prize for Literature, celebrated New Zealand writer Janet Frame (An Angel at My Table ) used to keep geese, using the base of an old garden fountain as their bath. In later years the geese... More »
Angel At My Table
$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
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 ye... More »
Towards Another Summer
$23.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
*Sometimes, Grace thought, "no thank you" was the most chilling phrase in the English language.* Janet Frame wrote this small and exquisite novel in 1963 whilst taking a break from her longest novel, The Adaptable Man. I... More »
Faces In The Water
$23.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
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... More »
Living In The Maniototo
$23.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
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 teasin... More »
Yellow Flowers In The Antipodean Room
$9.95 (Paperback book / George Braziller )
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Living In The Maniototo
$24.95$8.95 (Paperback book / George Braziller )
A comic fantasy portraying the fortunes of a wandering novelist. Mavis Halleton, the heroine, is a woman of some fortitude and no small independence who manages to survive writer's block and widowhood as she makes her wa... More »
Scented Gardens For The Blind
$24.95$9.95 (Paperback book / George Braziller )
An account of the troubles that befall a young girl when her parents' marriage collapses. Erlene Glace, a New Zealand schoolgirl, stops speaking altogether shortly after her father Edward leaves the family to settle in E... More »