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  • An Angel at My Table

    The Complete Autobiography

    by Janet Frame ...
    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 but intellectually intense railway family, through life as a student, and years of incarceration ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Towards Another Summer

    A Novel

    by Janet Frame ...
    From the author of the universally acclaimed An Angel at My Table, this is an exquisitely written novel of exile and return, homesickness and belonging"Self–styled" writer Grace Cleave has writer's block, and her anxiety is only augmented by her chronic aversion to leaving her home, to be "among people, even for five or ten minutes." And so it is with trepidation that she accepts an invitation to ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Owls Do Cry

    A Novel

    by Janet Frame ...
    A landmark of modernist fiction, Owls Do Cry traces one family's unraveling in post-war New Zealand after their daughter is institutionalizedFirst published in New Zealand in 1957, Owls Do Cry, was Janet Frame's second book and the first of her thirteen novels. Now approaching its 60th anniversary, it is securely a landmark in Frame's catalog and indeed a landmark of modernist literature. The ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • In the Memorial Room

    A Novel

    by Janet Frame ...
    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 is not suitable—it has no electricity or water. Hurndell never wrote here, though it is expected ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • Owls Do Cry

    by Janet Frame ...
    Series Book 144 - Virago Modern Classics
    'Janet Frame was a unique and troubled soul whose luminous words are the more precious' HILARY MANTEL'Her dark, eloquent song captured my heart' JANE CAMPION'All my preoccupations as a writer - my notions of home, beauty, madness of sorts and longing - come from her' MEG MASONThere is nothing in the world the matter with me, except that I have been bathed in a trough and dipped under a waterfall ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Jay to Bee

    Janet Frame's Letters to William Theophilus Brown

    by Janet Frame ...
    In 1951, just days before her scheduled lobotomy after years in a mental hospital, New Zealand author Janet Frame's first collection of short stories unexpectedly won the Hubert Church Memorial Award, one of the country's most prestigious honors. The procedure was cancelled, and Frame would go on to become one of the seminal authors of contemporary New Zealand literature.During her time at the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Owls Do Cry

    by Janet Frame ...
    Narrated by Heather Bolton ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 56 min

    Owls Do Cry is Janet Frame's first novel. She describes her idea behind it in the second volume of her autobiography: 'Pictures of great treasure in the midst of sadness and waste haunted me and I began to think, in fiction, of a childhood, home life, hospital life, using people known to me as a base for main characters, and inventing minor characters.' Regarded by many as one of the best New ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Towards Another Summer

    by Janet Frame ...
    Narrated by Heather Bolton ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 48 min

    Grace, the protagonist, 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 England seem transitory. The desire to leave behind the social human agonies of appearing neither too clever nor too stupid, too helpful or too lazy, becomes overwhelming for ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    In the Memorial Room

    by Janet Frame ...
    Narrated by Humphrey Bower ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 37 min

    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 is not suitable – it has no electricity or water. Hurndell never wrote here, though it is ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    The Narrow Road to the Deep North

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