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Old Filth

Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction

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Jane Gardam's funny and wise masterpiece, reissued with a new introduction by Nina Stibbe'Old Filth has stayed with me for years'SATHNAM SANGHERA'Sharp, humane, generous and wonderfully funny'HILARY MANTEL'The last great book I read'RACHEL WEISZ'Gardam's masterpiece'GUARDIANFilth, in his heydey, was an international lawye... ... Read more

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Jane Gardam's funny and wise masterpiece, reissued with a new introduction by Nina Stibbe'Old Filth has stayed with me for years'SATHNAM SANGHERA'Sharp, humane, generous and wonderfully funny'HILARY MANTEL'The last great book I read'RACHEL WEISZ'Gardam's masterpiece'GUARDIANFilth, in his heydey, was an international lawye...
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A Long Way From Verona

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'Jane Gardam is a wonderful writer. Her understanding of character and use of language are both remarkable' The Times'A Long Way from Verona is a brilliant, witty, and agonizingly true-to-life novel' Times Literary Supplement'A fiercly funny and personal book' Economist'Comedy and sympathy are the marks of Gardam's talent' Guardian'I ought to ... ... Read more

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'Jane Gardam is a wonderful writer. Her understanding of character and use of language are both remarkable' The Times'A Long Way from Verona is a brilliant, witty, and agonizingly true-to-life novel' Times Literary Supplement'A fiercly funny and personal book' Economist'Comedy and sympathy are the marks of Gardam's talent' Guardian'I ought to ...
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The Queen Of The Tambourine

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'Excellently done . . . Manic delusions have never been so persuasive . . . Very moving when it is not being exceedingly funny' Anita Brookner'An ingenious, funny, satirical, sad story . . . Vivid and poignant' Independent on Sunday'Wickedly comic . . . masterly and hugely enjoyable' Daily MailEliza Peabody is one of those dangerously blameless women who believes she has God in her pocket. She is ... Read more

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'Excellently done . . . Manic delusions have never been so persuasive . . . Very moving when it is not being exceedingly funny' Anita Brookner'An ingenious, funny, satirical, sad story . . . Vivid and poignant' Independent on Sunday'Wickedly comic . . . masterly and hugely enjoyable' Daily MailEliza Peabody is one of those dangerously blameless women who believes she has God in her pocket. She is
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The Man In The Wooden Hat

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Another masterpiece from Jane Gardam and the second novel in the Old Filth trilogy'She does fiction as it should be done, with confidence and insight' CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE'Witty, subversive, moving' THE TIMES'Full of the humour and eccentricity that have made Gardam one of the most enjoyable novelists writing today' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAYOld Filth told the sto... ... Read more

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Another masterpiece from Jane Gardam and the second novel in the Old Filth trilogy'She does fiction as it should be done, with confidence and insight' CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE'Witty, subversive, moving' THE TIMES'Full of the humour and eccentricity that have made Gardam one of the most enjoyable novelists writing today' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAYOld Filth told the sto...
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Showing The Flag

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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. ... Read more

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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.
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Crusoe's Daughter

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'Touching, terribly sad, funny: a smashing novel' The TimesIn 1904, six-year-old Polly Flint is sent by her sea captain father to live with her two holy aunts in a house by the sea on England's northeast coast. The house is so close to the sea it seems to toss like a ship, and so isolated, she might be marooned on an island.There Polly lives for 81 years, while the century rages around her and ... Read more

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'Touching, terribly sad, funny: a smashing novel' The TimesIn 1904, six-year-old Polly Flint is sent by her sea captain father to live with her two holy aunts in a house by the sea on England's northeast coast. The house is so close to the sea it seems to toss like a ship, and so isolated, she might be marooned on an island.There Polly lives for 81 years, while the century rages around her and
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The People On Privilege Hill

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'Gardam's prose is so economical that no moment she describes is either gratuitous or wasted' The New YorkerIt is a wet day in Dorset, and walking to a luncheon party is Sir Edward Feathers QC, followed by two elderly friends: his scruffy neighbour and sparring partner, Veneering, and Fiscal-Smith, the meanest lawyer ever to make a fortune at the Bar.Fans of Jane Gardam's bestselling novel, Old ... Read more

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'Gardam's prose is so economical that no moment she describes is either gratuitous or wasted' The New YorkerIt is a wet day in Dorset, and walking to a luncheon party is Sir Edward Feathers QC, followed by two elderly friends: his scruffy neighbour and sparring partner, Veneering, and Fiscal-Smith, the meanest lawyer ever to make a fortune at the Bar.Fans of Jane Gardam's bestselling novel, Old
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Last Friends

From the Orange Prize shortlisted author

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'Gardam writes about love, death, loneliness, money and madness with gentle ferocity. The Old Filth trilogy should be read by anyone who has ever been interested in how we become who we are' Amanda Craig, Independent on Sunday'Sharp, humane, generous and wonderfully funny, she is one of our very finest writers' Hilary Mantel'This humorous, melancholic final volume establishes the trilogy as a ... Read more

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'Gardam writes about love, death, loneliness, money and madness with gentle ferocity. The Old Filth trilogy should be read by anyone who has ever been interested in how we become who we are' Amanda Craig, Independent on Sunday'Sharp, humane, generous and wonderfully funny, she is one of our very finest writers' Hilary Mantel'This humorous, melancholic final volume establishes the trilogy as a
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The Pangs Of Love

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With her customary accuracy, Jane Gardam reveals the extraordinariness of ordinary people as she deals with the pangs of love- fulfilled or hopeless, sexual or spiritual, tortured or hilarious- in these eleven stories.Paraded here are ladies with a 'thing' about vicars, strange events happening in ornate downstairs lavatories (and in ornate upstairs ones), and the English abroad, desperate and ... Read more

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With her customary accuracy, Jane Gardam reveals the extraordinariness of ordinary people as she deals with the pangs of love- fulfilled or hopeless, sexual or spiritual, tortured or hilarious- in these eleven stories.Paraded here are ladies with a 'thing' about vicars, strange events happening in ornate downstairs lavatories (and in ornate upstairs ones), and the English abroad, desperate and
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Black Faces, White Faces

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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 while his wife goes mad in England; sexuality flares and everywhere farce and racial tension lurk. ... Read more

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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 while his wife goes mad in England; sexuality flares and everywhere farce and racial tension lurk.
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Summer After The Funeral

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A rather mysterious old clergyman is dead, and his most adoring child, sixteen-year-old Athene is desolate. A statuesque beauty, greatly admired, she is also lonely, untouchable and living a secret life of fairly dangerous fantasy.Athene's mother, at once highly organised and monumentally vague, dispatches her children to spend the holidays with assorted friends and relatives. For Athene, victim ... Read more

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A rather mysterious old clergyman is dead, and his most adoring child, sixteen-year-old Athene is desolate. A statuesque beauty, greatly admired, she is also lonely, untouchable and living a secret life of fairly dangerous fantasy.Athene's mother, at once highly organised and monumentally vague, dispatches her children to spend the holidays with assorted friends and relatives. For Athene, victim
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It’s a Man’s Life, Ladies: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him

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A short story by Jane Gardam from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.In ‘It’s a Man’s Life, Ladies’, a young woman tells the story of her grandmother’s memories of married life.Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader, I Married Him, brings together some of the finest and most creative voices in fiction today, to celebrate and salute the strength and ... Read more

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A short story by Jane Gardam from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.In ‘It’s a Man’s Life, Ladies’, a young woman tells the story of her grandmother’s memories of married life.Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader, I Married Him, brings together some of the finest and most creative voices in fiction today, to celebrate and salute the strength and
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