"delicious new gem"

Just reading the new Janet Frame to review. Can't wait to tell you all about this delicious new gem. The Memorial Room -- out April 24

— Paula Green (@PaulaJoyGreen) March 5, 2013

The Watercress Novel

Great to see anticipation is growing about this delightful novel that Janet Frame wrote in Menton in 1974 but never published.

"I'm sorry not to be doing anything with the novel I wrote in France," she said, some years later.

In the Memorial Room even found itself a place as a 'character' (fictionalised as "The Watercress novel") in her later masterpiece Living in the Maniototo (1979).

Text Publishing, jacketed hardback and e-book, 24 April 2013 (Australia/New Zealand)

 ISBN: 9781922147134

Counterpoint Press (USA) tba

Rights: The Wylie Agency http://www.wylieagency.com
 

High praise for Janet Frame's new story collection

There has been a  recent rush of glowing reviews for the beautiful, funny and moving posthumous collection of new stories by Janet Frame.

 

Two late reviews have come in for the New Zealand edition Gorse is Not People: New & Uncollected Stories (published in August 2012), coinciding with two early pre-publication reviews for the US edition Between My Father and the King: New and Uncollected Stories to be published in the USA in May 2013.

 

 

Both these titles contain exactly the same selection of stories, and reviewers have been united in their glowing praise for Frame's writing and for the collection.

Landfall Review Online

Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Booksellers New Zealand 

Large Print Gorse

Yes, there is a large print edition of Gorse is Not People. It's more expensive, but perhaps you could ask your local public library to invest in a copy!

Gorse is Not People: New and Uncollected Stories by Janet Frame (2012)
Read How You Want (Large Print Edition, paperback) $65.99 from The Nile Online

"beautifully rendered" - Publishers Weekly

Between My Father and the King, The US edition of Janet Frame's posthumous stories due out in May 2013, has attracted another starred review! This time from Publishers Weekly:

The review speaks of Janet Frame's "legacy of exceptional writing, both fiction and nonfiction" and says that this new collection "showcases her extraordinary gifts as an imaginative storyteller with a singular viewpoint".

"Even the weather, in “I Got a Shoes,” is transformed by Frame’s lovely vision: “It rained big drops, pelting down hard like a punishment.”

"a surprise present like no other"

There is a terrific review of Janet Frame's Gorse is Not People in the March 2013 issue of Landfall Review Online.

In 'Going to Town' reviewer Helen Watson White describes the posthumous volume of stories as "a gem of a book, or rather a string of gems, each uniquely coloured, cut and crafted."

White presents an informed and thoughtful analysis of the book, comparing it to the rest of Frame's oeuvre and finding that there is no question that each of the stories in this collection is of the highest quality, indistinguishable from those published in Janet Frame's lifetime:

 "I recommend that you read these comic, tragic and tragicomic pieces of prose theatre as I did, without any aids (for I didn't look up the note until I finished each one). I defy anyone to discriminate between those which were published early, or never, between those Frame submitted for publication herself, and those submitted on her behalf. You simply cannot tell, and they are selected and presented here just as they should be, to succeed on their own terms."

NZ Book Month

March is New Zealand Book Month - and time to support Kiwi writers!

 

Browse the NZ Book Month website and look out for the $5 giveaway vouchers in newspapers, at BNZ and at Caltex stations!