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  • Bilgewater

    by Jane Gardam ...
    "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 affectionate and complex rendering-in-miniature of the discomforts of growing up and first love seen through the eyes of inimitable Marigold Green, an awkward, eccentric, highly intelligent girl ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Crusoe's Daughter

    by Jane Gardam ...
    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 with her aunts in a house by the sea on England's northeast coast. Orphaned shortly thereafter, Polly will spend the next eighty years stranded in this quiet corner of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • God on the Rocks

    by Jane Gardam ...
    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 coming of age one summer between the world wars. Caught in the backwash of a fervently religious father, a mother bitterly nostalgic for what might have been ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Stories of Jane Gardam

    by Jane Gardam ...
    "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 England's greatest living novelists, comes a collection of short stories that showcase her subversive wit, gentle humor, and insight into the human condition. Gardam's ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Hollow Land

    by Jane Gardam ...
    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 adventures of Bell and Harry, two children who find enchanting wonder at every turn as they explore the area that Bell's grandfather calls the hollow land. ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Old Filth Trilogy

    Old Fifth, The Man in the Wooden Hat, and Last Friends

    by Jane Gardam ...
    Series series Old Filth Trilogy
    The complete " wonderfully entertaining trilogy" about three British friends approaching their twilight years with bittersweet humor ( The Washington Post).Jane Gardam's beloved *Old Filth Trilogy—*including her masterpiece, Old Filth, voted one of the 100 greatest British novels in a BBC survey; The Man in the Wooden Hat; and *Last Friends—*are here presented in one volume.Emo... ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • The Queen of the Tambourine

    by Jane Gardam ...
    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 Tambourine traces the emotional breakdown—and eventual restoration—of Eliza Peabody, a smart and wildly imaginative woman who has become unbearably isolated in her ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Faith Fox

    by Jane Gardam ...
    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 and her family and close friends, all of whom are determined to see her live a happy life.Faith's mother died in childbirth; her overworked father cannot raise his child ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Old Filth

    by Jane Gardam ...
    Series Book 1 - Old Filth Trilogy
    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 in Southeast Asia, where he earned the nickname Old Filth (FILTH being an acronym for Failed In London Try Hong Kong) to his final working days as a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Long Way from Verona

    by Jane Gardam ...
    "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 Daughter—have delighted fans and critics alike. These "modern classics" are now joined by a novel that is equally fresh and genuine, comic and touching ( The Independent).Jessica ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The People on Privilege Hill

    by Jane Gardam ...
    "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 caustic humor, freewheeling imagination, love of humanity, and wicked powers of observation. This is a delightful grouping of stories, witty and wise, that ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Last Friends

    by Jane Gardam ...
    Series Book 3 - Old Filth Trilogy
    "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 decades-long marriage, The Man in the Wooden Hat was his wife Betty's story. Last Friends is Terence Veneering's turn. His beginnings were not those of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD