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An Angel At My Table by Janet Frame
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
19.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
Between My Father and the King: New and Collected Stories by Janet Frame
29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
This brand new collection of 28 short stories by Janet Frame spans the length of her career and contains some of the best she wrote. None of these stories has been published in a collection before, and more than half are published for the first time in Between My Father and the King. Previously publishe ...Show more
Faces In The Water by Janet Frame
23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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 that time to give me a clearer view of the future.' This writing evolved into an in ...Show more
HMAS Sydney: Australia's Greatest Naval Tragedy by Tom Frame
22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
The complete and authoritative account of the sinking of the HMAS Sydney, and the finding of her wreck in 2008. On 19 November 1941, the pride of the Australian Navy, the light cruiser Sydney, fought a close-quarters battle with the German armed raider HSK Kormoran off Carnarvon on the West Australian ...Show more
Happening 2: Design for Events by Frame Publishers
120.00 AUD
Category: Interior Design | Series: Happening Series
This inspiring book is a visual feast of 100+ global event designs which is a must for brand innovators and identity wizards. Happening 2 showcases every type of event experience, in the broadest sense possible - from fashion shows to festivals and exhibitions to exclusive product launches, ranging from ...Show more
Havisham by Ronald Frame
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
There was a delicate tracery of gold foil on the back of the dress. How strange that such a consummately made garment should be worn for this one day only. But, as every girl growing up understood, her wedding day was the most significant she would know: a woman's crowning glory. Catherine Havisham was ...Show more
Havisham by Ronald Frame
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A compelling prelude to Great Expectations, telling compelling story of Miss Havisham's early life, before heartbreak came to define her entirely. There was a delicate tracery of gold foil on the back of the dress. How strange that such a consummately made garment should be worn for this one day only. ...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: Fiction | 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
14.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
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
The Daylight And The Dust: Selected Short Stories By Janet Frame by Janet Frame
23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
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. Some stories are firmly rooted in realism and others in glorious fantasy. In Frame's stories life is mysterio ...Show more