Patrick Evans
Gifted - Pt 3
Frank Sargeson is surprised that Janet has arrived to live and write in his army hut out the back. Audio
Gifted - Pt 2
It's the summer of 1955 and young Janet Frame has been brought to visit Frank Sargeson . . .'the man who fathered a nation's fiction'. Audio
Gifted - Pt 4
Frank and Janet sort out their writing routines and Janet is introduced to peppers. She sets to writing with a vengeance. Audio
Gifted - Pt 5
Janet bakes cakes for Frank's party and then disappears. Frank searches her hut again and discovers a write up of a conversation he'd had at the party. She'd been listening in. He realises she has a… Audio
Gifted - Pt 6
Frank has discovered that Janet has been writing about him, and is becoming increasingly annoyed by the fact that she's typing a lot more than he is. Audio
Gifted - Pt 7
Frank thinks he's set Janet up with Lyall Neary. Her writing has dropped off and his has begun to increase. Audio
Gifted - Pt 8
Frank discovers it's Little Ben, not Lyall, who has been visiting Janet at nights on his motorbike. Audio
Gifted - Pt 14
Frank has helped Janet post off her manuscript to a South Island publisher. His friend Harry is not well..... Audio
Gifted - Pt 15
Janet has had a positive response from her publisher and Frank is left on his own again. Audio
Gifted - Pt 9
Lyall has told Frank that Janet is mad; in fact she's a schizophrenic. Audio
Gifted - Pt 10
Frank asks the library for information on schizophrenia and Janet tells him she's finished writing her book. Audio
Gifted - Pt 11
Janet has gone south to visit her family and Frank's dear friend Harry has just turned up. Audio
Gifted - Pt 12
Frank relishes his mate Harry's return and begins to read Janet's work. Audio
Gifted - Pt 13
Harry and Janet don't like each other which causes tensions in the Sargeson household. Audio
Gifted - Pt 1
A fictionalized account of the year and a half spent by Janet Frame at writer Frank Sargeson's house in Takapuna. Audio
Bluffworld by Patrick Evans
A novel about bluffing, evasion and the decline of humanities in universities - you can't say Christchurch writer Patrick Evans is scared to tackle the big subjects! Bluffworld is set in a world… Audio
Patrick Evans: Salt Picnic
Christchurch author Patrick Evans returns to his muse - writer Janet Frame - for the third in his trilogy about her life. In Salt Picnic, set in 1956, Evans has fictionalised the few known facts about… Audio
Patrick Evans and Kate De Goldi: writers and writing
Patrick Evans is the author of the first biography of the writer Janet Frame. His play based on his 2010 novel, Gifted, is playing at Wellington's Circa Theatre, and his new novel, The Back of His… Audio
Literature Review: The Back of his Head by Patrick Evans
Published by Victoria University Press. Reviewed by Louise O'Brien, co-editor of the quarterly review, New Zealand Books. Audio
A Fragile Peace by Lindsay Wood
A classic story of the first Christmas in the trenches in 1914. Audio