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

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 focus a crucial turning point in her life.

Here, Janet Frame explores the Maniototo, that 'bloody plain' of the imagination which crouches beneath the world. Violent Pansy Proudlock, ventriloquist, also known as Alice Thumb, gossip, and as Mavis Furness Barwell Halleton, is the reader's guide.

'One of the most impressive accounts of madness to be found in literature ... A masterpiece' Anita Brookner

'The Daylight and the Dust' is a comprehensive selection of Janet Frame's short stories. Written over four decades, they come from her classic prize-winning collection 'The Lagoon and Other Stories', right up to 'You Are Now Entering the Human Heart'.

This autobiography traces Janet Frame's childhood in a poor but intellectually intense family, life as a student, years of incarceration in mental hospitals and eventual entry into the saving world of writers.

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 Between My Father and the King.

The piece 'Gorse is Not People' caused Frame a setback in 1954, when Charles Brasch rejected it for publication in Landfall and, along with others for one reason or other, deliberately remained unpublished during her lifetime. Previously published pieces have appeared in Harper's Bazaar, the NZ...

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 Zealand novels published, Owls Do Cry forms a loose trilogy with her two subsequent novels, Faces in the Water and The Edge of the Alphabet.

'One of the most impressive accounts of madness to be found in literature ... A masterpiece' Anita BrooknerPublished as part of a beautifully designed series to mark the 40th anniversary of the Virago Modern Classics.