Janet Frame

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1980
  • Latest Book:
    December 2015
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Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • Living in the Maniototo

    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) and, at other times, as Mavis Furness Barnwell Halleton (a w...

  • Scented Gardens for the Blind

    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 the author of eleven novels, four collections of stories...

  • Faces in the Water

    Written with unsparing precision and astounding immediacy, Faces in the Water takes the reader behind the walls of two hospitals--Cliffhaven and Treecroft--and into the hearts and minds of its confused and tormented patients. The experience of insani...

  • A State of Siege

    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 the author of eleven novels, four collections of stories...

  • The Edge of the Alphabet

    This extraordinary book justifies once again the statement John Barkham made when we published Miss Frame's first novel - Owls do Cry. Janet Frame, wrote Mr. Barkham, is the most talented writer to have come out of New Zealand since Katherine Mansfie...

  • Daughter Buffalo

    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 the author of eleven novels, four collections of stories...

  • Carpathians

    A fearful sense of unnamed and unnamable disaster haunts the pages of the 11th novel by this acclaimed New Zealand writer ( Faces in the Water, Living in the Maniototo ), whose topsy-turvy vision of a world beyond bearing reminds us uneasily of our o...

  • Reservoir

    The Reservoir is a collection of stories, sketches, poetic fragments, and memoirs-as-short-story. Set mostly in the author's native New Zealand, these works depict humankind's battle against disillusionment and emptiness. In the title story, a little...

  • Snowman Snowman; Fables and Fantasies

    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 the author of eleven novels, four collections of stories...



  • Mona Minim and the Smell of the Sun

    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 the author of eleven novels, four collections of stories...

  • Yellow Flowers in the Antipodean Room

  • Intensive Care

    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 the author of eleven novels, four collections of stories...

  • The Lagoon

    This collection of stories - Janet Frame's first published book - appeared in New Zealand in 1951, while she was confined in a mental hospital. It won the Hubert Church Award, and a threatened brain operation was averted. These stories bring into foc...

  • Adaptable Man

    Beneath the seemingly tranquil surface of an old English village lie murder, incest, and mystery. Alwyn Maude, a handsome young man, commits murder for no particular reason other than to kill. The senselessness of Alwyn's crime is contrasted with the...

  • Towards Another Summer

    "Selfâ€"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...

  • Prizes

    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 wer...

  • Between My Father and the King

    This brand new collection of 28 short stories spans the length of Frame’s career and contains some of the best she wrote. None of these stories have been published in a collection before, and more than half are here published for the first time in ...

  • In the Memorial Room

    Harry Gill, a moderately successful writer of historical fiction, has been awarded the annual Watercress-Armstrong Fellowship -- a Â'living memorial’ to the poet, Margaret Rose Hurndell. He arrives in the small French village of Menton, where Hurn...

  • Owls Do Cry

    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...



  • The Daylight And The Dust

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Janet Frame has published 20 books.

Janet Frame does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Owls Do Cry, was published in December 2015.

The first book by Janet Frame, Living in the Maniototo, was published in June 1980.

No. Janet Frame does not write books in series.
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