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An Angel At My Table by Janet Frame
$23.00 AUD
Category: Australian
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
$25.00 AUD
Category: General
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
In the Memorial Room by Janet Frame
$27.99 AUD
Category: 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
In the Memorial Room (Text Classics) by Janet Frame
$12.95 AUD
Category: Text Classics | 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
Owls Do Cry: Text Classics by Janet Frame
$12.95 AUD
Category: Text Classics | 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
Prizes: Selected Short Stories by Janet Frame
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The most comprehensive selection of Janet Frame's stories ever published, this exceptional collection has been chosen from the four different volumes released during her lifetime. Featuring the best of her stories, the book includes pieces that were written over four decades, including stories from her ...Show more
Towards Another Summer by Janet Frame
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
'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. It's a highly personal work that she did not want published until after her death. TO ...Show more
Towards Another Summer by Janet Frame
$20.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Suffused with beauty and tenderness and shot through with self-deprecating humour and frailty. Grace is taking a break from writing a long novel and seems to be losing her grip on daily life in London. She feels more and more like a migratory bird as the pull of her native New Zealand makes life in Engl ...Show more
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