Jane Gardam

• Mar-1986
• / General Fiction
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From the award-winning author of Old Filth. “[A] wonderfully old-fashioned novel . . . This post-Victorian charmer is an engrossing delight” (People).   In 1904, six-year-old Polly Flint is sent by her sea captain father to live wi...

• Mar-1991
• / Fantasy
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• Sep-1993
• / General Fiction
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Includes "Bevis" by Jane Gardam, "A Friendship" by William Trevor and "The Candle Maker" by Rose Tremain. These stories were read to the Cheltenham Festival of Literature in 1991, 1992 and 1993 respectively....

• Aug-1995
• / General Fiction
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Winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel of the Year: “Gardam’s portrait of an insanely imaginative woman in an elusive midlife crisis is impeccably drawn” (The Seattle Times).With prose that is vibrant and witty, The Queen of the Tambourin...

• Sep-1995
• / General Fiction
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Molly Fielding's mother had been a terrible woman...'A terrible woman indeed. One need only to look at the old sepia photograph to see a vision of nastiness. The look of cunning, the self-satisfied smile, the aura of hauteur as she watches the little...

• Nov-1997
• / General Fiction
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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...

• Dec-1997
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1998
• / Literary
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• May-2001
• / General Fiction
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“A quirky coming-of-age story . . . Female adolescence as imagined by one of the 20th century’s best -- and most peculiar -- writers” (Kirkus Reviews).   Originally published in 1977, Jane Gardams Bilgewater is an affec...

• May-2001
• / General Fiction
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“Far more than just another coming-of-age story” from the award-winning author of the Old Filth trilogy (Bustle).   Jane Gardam’s marvelous stories of young girls on the threshold of womanhood -- God on the Rocks and Crusoe’s D...

• Jul-2001
• / Action Adventure
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The Whitbread Award�"winning author of the Old Filth trilogy captures a moment in time for three young women on the cusp of adulthood. Yorkshire, 1946. The end of the war has changed the world again, and, emboldened by this new dawning, Hetty Fallow...

• Nov-2003
• / Contemporary Romance
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A novel that’s “brilliant on sex, brilliant on bereavement and death, brilliant on god, brilliant on dottiness” from the acclaimed author of Old Filth (A. N. Wilson, Evening Standard).   The story of a motherless girl named Faith...

• Jun-2006
• / General Fiction
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First in the Old Filth trilogy. A New York Times Notable Book. “Old Filth belongs in the Dickensian pantheon of memorable characters” (The New York Times Book Review).Sir Edward Feathers has had a brilliant career, from his early days as a lawyer...

• Feb-2007
• / General Fiction
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“Engrossing stories of hilarity and heartbreak” from the Whitbread Award�"winning author of the Old Filth trilogy (The Seattle Times).A collection of stories from a writer at the height of her powers -- a celebrated stylist admired for her caust...

• Oct-2009
• / General Fiction
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Second in the Old Filth trilogy. “An astute, subtle depiction of marriage . . . absolutely wonderful” (The Washington Post).Acclaimed as Jane Gardam’s masterpiece, Old Filth is a lyrical novel that recalls the fully lived life of...

• Dec-2009
• / General Fiction
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The latest explosive novel from the bestselling Chris Ryan.

Two brothers.
One mission.
And a whole world of trouble. . .

Sam and Jacob Redman. Two brothers, SAS through and through. They fight alongside each other; they watch each...

• Nov-2010
• / General Fiction
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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 Times).Originally published in Great Britain in 1978, the novel describes Margaret Marsh’s ...

• Apr-2013
• / General Fiction
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“The satisfying conclusion to Gardam’s Old Filth trilogy offers exquisite prose, wry humor, and keen insights into aging and death” (The New Yorker).While Old Filth introduced readers to Sir Edward Feathers, his dreadful childhood, and his deca...

• Jun-2014
• / General Fiction
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From the inimitable Jane Gardam, whose Old Filth trilogy cemented her status as one of England’s greatest living novelists, comes a collection of short stories that showcase her subversive wit, gentle humor, and insight into the human condition. Ga...

• Jun-2014
• / General Fiction
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“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 cemented her status as one of E...

• Apr-2016
• / Literary
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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...

• Aug-2016
• / General Fiction
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Jane Gardam reveals again her brilliant diversity and deep understanding of the human condition. In "Light", an evocative, lyrical piece of magic realism, a beautiful Himalayan girl defies the destiny laid out for her by her mother but in so doin...

• / General Fiction
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New York Times Notable Book and Whitbread Award Winner: Tales of two boys’ adventures in the English countryside from “an exquisite storyteller” (The Seattle Times).The barren, beautiful Cumbrian fells provide the bewitching setting for the adv...

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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 mean-spirited and middle-aged Kensington widows, a dreaded stranger, and the mercurial...