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Owls Do Cry: Text Classics

Janet Frame

Owls Do Cry is one of the classics of New Zealand literature, and has remained in print continuously for fifty years. A fiftieth anniversary edition was published in 2007. Regarded…

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The Lagoon: A Collection of Short Stories

Janet Frame

A collection of stories appeared in New Zealand in 1951, while the author was confined in a mental hospital.

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An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography

Janet Frame

The acclaimed autobiography of one of New Zealand’s best-loved writers. Introduced by Jane Campion, who made it into a prize-winning film.

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Prizes: The Selected Stories of Janet Frame

Janet Frame

The most comprehensive selection of Frame’s stories ever published, this exceptional collection includes pieces that were written over four decades, including stories from her debut collection, The Lagoon and Other…

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In the Memorial Room: Text Classics

Janet Frame

Janet Frame’s previously unpublished novel draws on her own experiences in Menton, France as a Katherine Mansfield Fellow. It is a wonderful social satire, a send-up of the cult of…

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The Daylight And The Dust: Selected Short Stories By Janet Frame

Janet Frame

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…

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Living In The Maniototo

Janet Frame

Through the eyes of a woman of myriad personalities - ventriloquist, gossip and writer, the author playfully explores the process of writing fiction: the avoidances, interruptions and irrelevancies, as well…

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Janet Frame

Claire Bazin,Tonya Blowers

Claire Bazin explores the extraordinary life of Janet Frame and highlights the author’s significant contribution to postcolonial and gender studies.

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Daughter Buffalo

Janet Frame

Considered New Zealand’s greatest living novelist, Janet Frame has also written short stories and a three-volume autobiography which has been filmed as a TV drama. In this novel, Dr Talbot…

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State of Siege

Janet Frame

Recipient of the prestigious Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1989, Janet Frame has long been admired for her startlingly original prose and formidable imagination. A native of New Zealand, she is…

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Living in the Maniototo

Janet Frame

Welcome to the comical, ironical, and multiple worlds of one Violet Pansy Proudlock (a ventriloquist), who is also known as Alice Thumb (a gossip and secret sharer of limited imaginings)…

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The Adaptable Man

Janet Frame

Electricity is coming to Little Burgelstatham, cottages are being modernized and the London overspill is encroaching on the village. Some would rather live in the past, but Muriel welcomes electricity…

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Intensive Care: A Novel

Janet Frame

Recipient of the prestigious Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1989, Janet Frame has long been admired for her startlingly original prose and formidable imagination. A native of New Zealand, she is…

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In the Memorial Room: A Novel

Janet Frame

Janet Frame’s previously unpublished novel draws on her own experiences in Menton, France as a Katherine Mansfield Fellow. It is a wonderful social satire, a send-up of the cult of…

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Scented Gardens for the Blind

Janet Frame

Vera is the mother who has willed herself sightless, Erlene, her daughter, has ceased to speak, and Edward, the husband and father, has taken refuge in a distant land. Beyond…

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Storms Will Tell

Janet Frame

A selection of Janet Frame’s poems drawn from both An Angel at My Table and The Goose Bath .

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Snowman, Snowman: Fables and Fantasies

Janet Frame

Recipient of the prestigious Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1989, Janet Frame has long been admired for her startlingly original prose and formidable imagination. A native of New Zealand, she is…

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Between My Father and the King: New and Uncollected Stories

Janet Frame

First published by Penguin Group (NZ), 2012, as ‘Gorse is not people’ –T.p. verso.

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An Angel At My Table

Janet Frame

With a heartfelt introduction from Jane Campion. Janet Frame brings the skill of an extraordinary novelist and poet to these vivid and haunting recollections.

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Towards Another Summer

Janet Frame

This is a novel of exile and return, which Janet Frame felt too autobiographical to be published in her lifetime. It is an exquisite work shot through with tenderness and…

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Towards Another Summer

Janet Frame

This is a novel of exile and return, which Janet Frame felt too autobiographical to be published in her lifetime. It is an exquisite work shot through with tenderness and…

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Faces in the Water

Janet Frame

Faces in the Water draws on the experiences of Janet Frame’s early life but it also explores the world of the mind - isolated and inarticulate.

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Owls Do Cry: A Novel

Janet Frame

Owls Do Cry is the first novel of one of New Zealand’s most acclaimed classic writers, Janet Frame. Hailed as a masterpiece on first publication in 1957, it is comparable…

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The Edge of the Alphabet

Janet Frame

Originally published: New York: G. Braziller, 1962.

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Janet Frame’s World of Books

Patricia Neville

This study investigates how Janet Frame weaves together literary sources from her extensive reading to create a web of intertextual relationships. Patricia Neville traces Frame’s passion for books beginning with…

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Faces In The Water

Janet Frame

‘One of the most impressive accounts of madness to be found in literature … A masterpiece’ Anita Brookner Published as part of a beautifully designed series to mark the 40th…

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Critical Spaces: Margaret Laurence and Janet Frame

Lorna Irvine (Contributor)

First major critical study and comparison of two important female writers, the Canadian Margaret Laurence and the New Zealander Janet Frame.

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The Unharnessed World: Janet Frame and Buddhist Thought

Cindy Gabrielle

Though New Zealand author Janet Frame (1924-2004) lived at a time of growing dissatisfaction with European cultural models, and though her (auto-)biography, fiction and letters all testify to the fact…

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In the Memorial Room

Janet Frame

Janet Frame’s previously unpublished novel draws on her own experiences in Menton, France as a Katherine Mansfield Fellow. It is a wonderful social satire, a send-up of the cult of…

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Owls Do Cry

Janet Frame

Owls Do Cry is the first novel of one of New Zealand’s most acclaimed classic writers, Janet Frame. Hailed as a masterpiece on first publication in 1957, it is comparable…

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