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Jane Gardam
A genuine masterpiece - funny, brilliant and wise.
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Another masterpiece from Jane Gardam and the second novel in the Old Filth trilogy.
First in the Old Filth trilogy. A New York Times Notable Book.
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A mysterious clergyman is dead. His daughter Athene is desolate. Through a muddle and the vagueness of her family, Athene finds herself in the summer after her father’s funeral marooned…
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Winner of the Macmillan Silver Pen Award 1995
This collection of short stories reveals the extraordinariness of ordinary people; ladies with a thing about vicars, strange events in ornate lavatories, and the English abroad - desperate and dotty…
A loosely connected sequence of stories, offering vignettes of human foibles from the holiday island of Jamaica. Mrs Filling sees something nasty in the midday sun; an English lawyer dallies…
The flag that is shown, literally and metaphorically, by these characters is always the Union Jack. Gardam’s stories are acutely observed social commentaries on Englishness, its weaknesses and its illusions.
Pure delight … One perfect story after another from the Whitbread Award-winning author of the Old Filth trilogy (The Sunday Telegraph).
From the inimitable Jane Gardam, whose Old Filth trilogy…
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*A moving, Booker shortlisted story of a girl’s coming of age, beautifully rejacketed for this reissue
The marriage of Edward Feathers and Betty as seen through the eyes of Edward’s friend and Betty’s lover Terry Veneering in the third book in the Old Filth trilogy (…
Jane Gardam, author of the Old Filth Trilogy, delivers another modern classic in The Flight of the Maidens. With her characteristic wit, Gardam captures a moment in time for three…
A beautiful collection of magic realist novellas taking this highly acclaimed author in a new direction.
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A coming-of-age novel from the author of God on the Rocks and Crusoe’s Daughter, A Long Way from Verona is a fiercely funny and personal novel.
Barbara Comyns
Barbara Comyns’ witty and touching classic The Vet’s Daughter tells the story of Alice, a young woman from Edwardian south London who is gripped by strange and mysterious powers.
From the author of the much-loved Old Filth trilogy, Jane Gardam’s short stories are as witty, scintillating, and emotionally acute as the greatest of her novels. This definitive collection, which…
Motherless and 16, Marigold is the headmaster’s daughter at a private all-boys school, where she hurdles headlong out of her own head and into the seething cauldron of adolescence: impossible…
The story of a motherless girl named Faith and her family and close friends, all of whom are determined to see her live a happy life.
Originally published: London: J. MacRae Books, 1981.
From the author of Old Filth, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, comes this new collection of stories that showcases Gardam’s caustic humor, freewheeling imagination, and wicked…
Second in the Old Filth trilogy. An astute, subtle depiction of marriage … absolutely wonderful (The Washington Post).
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: So charming a novel that you don’t want to give away a single one of the many twists of its plot (The New York…
* A new collection that is a masterclass in the art of the short story from Jane Gardam, bestselling author of OLD FILTH
* A brilliant, witty and moving novel about keeping the faith in extreme adversity
A stunning novel, winner of the Whitbread Award, by the author of Old Filth and Last Friends.
Winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel of the Year. –Page 4 of cover.
* A reissue of one of Jane Gardam’s best-loved novels
*A classic novel of English adolescence
A wonderful bittersweet story about a misguided do-gooder.
This collection brings together past and present, probing many and varied lives. The title story examines Jane Austen’s love life, while others introduce a trio of Kensington widows, mean-spirited and…
A young girl aspiring to be a writer recounts her experiences growing up in England during the Second World War.
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The third novel in the Old Filth trilogy
This delightful novel describes the post-war summer of 1946 - and follows the growing-up of three young women in the months between leaving school and taking up their scholarships at…
A treasure trove of short stories from the beloved author of the Old Filth trilogy.
Crusoe’s Daughter is Jane Gardam’s favorite among her novels, in part because it draws upon her own background. Like Polly Flint, Gardam’s mother was the daughter of a sea captain…
This funny and wise masterpiece is being reissued as part of Abacus’s 50th anniversary celebrations, with a new introduction from Nina Stibbe
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THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLED SIR EDWARD FEATHERS ONE OF THE MOST MEMORABLE CHARACTERS IN MODERN LITERATURE. A LYRICAL NOVEL THAT RECALLS HIS FULLY LIVED LIFE, OLD FILTH HAS BEEN…
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