First published: 2012.

Between my father and the king -- The plum tree and the hammock -- Gavin highly -- The birds of the air -- In Alco Hall -- University entrance -- Dot -- The gravy boat -- I got a shoes -- A night at the opera -- Gorse is not people -- The wind brother -- The Friday night world -- The silkworms -- An electric blanket -- A bone in the throat -- My tailor is not rich -- The big money -- A distance from Mrs Tiggy-winkle -- Caring for the flame -- Letter from Mrs John Edward Harroway -- Sew my hood, cut my hair -- The atomiser -- The painter -- The people of the summer valley -- The spider -- A night visitor -- I do not love the crickets.

This brand new collection of 28 short stories by Janet Frame spans the length of her career and contains some of the best she wrote. None of these stories has been published in a collection before, and more than half are published for the first time in Between My Father and the King.