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  • Old Filth

    Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction

    by Jane Gardam ...
    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

    $4.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Black Faces, White Faces

    by Jane Gardam ...
    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

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Man In The Wooden Hat

    From the Orange Prize shortlisted author

    by Jane Gardam ...
    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

    $5.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Summer After The Funeral

    by Jane Gardam ...
    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

    $7.99 CAD

  • Last Friends

    From the Orange Prize shortlisted author

    by Jane Gardam ...
    '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

    $5.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Stories

    by Jane Gardam ...
    'Pure delight' The TimesThroughout her career, prize-winning novelist Jane Gardam has been writing glorious short stories, each one hallmarked with all the originality, poignancy, wry comedy and narrative brilliance of her longer fiction.Passion and longing, metamorphosis and enchantment are Gardam's themes, and like a magician she plucks them from the quietest of corners: from Wimbledon gardens ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Crusoe's Daughter

    by Jane Gardam ...
    '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

    $9.99 CAD

  • It’s a Man’s Life, Ladies: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him

    by Jane Gardam ...
    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

    $0.99 CAD

  • Going Into A Dark House

    by Jane Gardam ...
    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 Italian photographer go about his business. They say the camera never lies, but maybe this one did...'Going into the Dark House', the title story of ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Missing The Midnight

    by Jane Gardam ...
    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 doing destroys the village in which she was born. In 'Missing the Midnight', a young woman having failed her exams and lost the man she loves, journeys home ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Hollow Land

    by Jane Gardam ...
    Her territory isn't young or old; it's the heart-and brain-matter of people, their desires and worries and fantasies and intricate interactions. All of this is set capably against a particular landscape, and the result tends to be vivid and real. Beautiful, like Willa Cather' Meg Wolitzer, New York TimesThe barren, beautiful Cumbrian fells provide the bewitching setting for the adventures of Bill ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Faith Fox

    by Jane Gardam ...
    'She does fiction as it should be done, with confidence and insight' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie'Terribly funny & clever ... the best thing she's done' Victoria Wood'Brilliant on sex, brilliant on bereavement and death, brilliant on god, brilliant on dottiness' A. N. Wilson, Evening StandardWhen sweet, healthy hearty Holly Fox dies suddenly in childbirth, the Surrey village whose pearl she was ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD