Summary
Why did the princess throw the frog against the wall?
A novel about a disappearance, searching for love and the power of stories.
A disappearance. An infatuation. The Frog Prince is an intriguing, multi-layered novel giving us a story, within a story, within a story.
Remember the kiss between the frog prince and the princess? What about the part where the princess angrily flings the frog against the wall?
What was that about?
At an internationa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143775492 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143775499 |
| Author: | James Norcliffe |
| Publisher: | Random House New Zealand Ltd |
| Imprint: | Vintage New Zealand |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2022 |
| Weight: | 402g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 153mm x 233mm |
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James Norcliffe
James Norcliffe is an award-winning poet, educator, editor, and author of books for adults and children.
He has held several prestigious fellowships:
- 2018 Creative New Zealand Randell Cottage Writing Fellow
- 2012 University of Otago College of Education Writer in Residence
- 2006 Fellow at Iowa University
- 2000 Robert Burns Fellow at Otago University
In 2003, Norcliffe, with Bernadette Hall, received the inaugural Christchurch Press Literary Liaisons Honour Award for ‘lasting contribution to literature in the South Island’. Norcliffe has taught English in Christchurch, China, and Brunei. He won the Lilian Ida Smith Award in 1990 and the New Zealand Poetry Society’s international competition in 1992.
His children’s fantasy novel, The Assassin of Gleam, won the Sir Julius Vogel Award for the best New Zealand fantasy novel of 2006 and was shortlisted for the 2007 LIANZA Esther Glen Medal. Reviewers praised its lifelike characters, dark mood, and sense of urgency, with Trevor Agnew in The Christchurch Press calling Norcliffe a “master storyteller.” Heather Murray in New Zealand Books highlighted Norcliffe’s ability to blend historical and poetic experience to create a believable and exciting story from a threatening world.
The Loblolly Boy, published in 2009, was acclaimed as a “rich fantasy” by Margaret Mahy, filled with twists, surprises, and mysteries. It won the 2010 NZ Post Junior Fiction Award, was shortlisted for the LIANZA Esther Glen Medal for Junior Fiction and the Sir Julius Vogel Science Fiction Award, and received a Storylines Notable Junior Fiction Book Award. Critics noted its appeal to both children and adults, with Booklist describing it as “an imaginative and richly atmospheric fantasy with sympathetic characters.” George Ivanoff in Australian Speculative Fiction in Focus called it an “entrancing, exciting, unexpected read” with a “wondrous, magical fairy-tale ambience.”
A sequel, The Loblolly Boy & the Sorcerer, released in 2011, was a finalist in the Junior Fiction category of the 2012 New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. The Enchanted Flute, a story described as a blend of fairy tale, mythology, and adventure, was a finalist in the 2013 Sir Julius Vogel Awards.
Norcliffe’s 2013 novel, Felix and the Red Rats, was praised for its intricate plot and blurring of reality and history, winning a Storylines Notable Junior Fiction Award in 2014. The Pirates and the Nightmaker, a continuation of the loblolly boy’s adventures, was published in 2015, earning a Storylines Notable Junior Fiction Award and a finalist nomination for the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults in 2016.
Sarah Forster, in The Sapling, described Norcliffe’s 2017 novel Twice Upon a Time as “traditional quest storytelling at its best, from a master of the form,” declaring that “James Norcliffe is a national treasure.”
He lives in Church Bay with his wife, Joan Melvyn.
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