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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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The Man In The Wooden Hat

From the Orange Prize shortlisted author

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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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Last Friends

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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 Hollow Land

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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

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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
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Faith Fox

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'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

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'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
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God On The Rocks

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize

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'A meticulously observed modern classic' IndependentDuring one glorious summer between the wars, the realities of life and the sexual ritual dance of the adult world creep into the life of young Margaret Marsh. Her father, preaching the doctrine of the unsavoury Primal Saints; her mother, bitterly nostalgic for what might have been; Charles and Binkie, anchored in the past and a game of words; ... Read more

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'A meticulously observed modern classic' IndependentDuring one glorious summer between the wars, the realities of life and the sexual ritual dance of the adult world creep into the life of young Margaret Marsh. Her father, preaching the doctrine of the unsavoury Primal Saints; her mother, bitterly nostalgic for what might have been; Charles and Binkie, anchored in the past and a game of words;
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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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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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Bilgewater

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'One of the funniest, most entertaining, most unusual stories about young love' Evening StandardMarigold Green calls herself 'hideous, quaint and barmy'. Other people calle her Bilgewater, a corruption of Bill's daughter. Growing up motherless in a boys' school where her father is housemaster, she is convinced of her own plainness and peculiarity.Groomed by the wise and loving Paula, upstaged by ... Read more

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'One of the funniest, most entertaining, most unusual stories about young love' Evening StandardMarigold Green calls herself 'hideous, quaint and barmy'. Other people calle her Bilgewater, a corruption of Bill's daughter. Growing up motherless in a boys' school where her father is housemaster, she is convinced of her own plainness and peculiarity.Groomed by the wise and loving Paula, upstaged by
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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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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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Facing the Music

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A delightful short story from Jane Gardam, revisting that Titan of the Hong Kong law courts, Edward Feathers (known to many as Old Filth) in the days after he loses his beloved wife, Betty. ... Read more

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A delightful short story from Jane Gardam, revisting that Titan of the Hong Kong law courts, Edward Feathers (known to many as Old Filth) in the days after he loses his beloved wife, Betty.
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