The witty and sparkling new novel from Jane Gardam, bestselling author of Old Filth. Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat told with bristling tenderness and black humour the stories of that Titan o
A genuine masterpiece - funny, brilliant and wise - OLD FILTH is now reissued with a new cover.Long ago, Old Filth was a Raj orphan - one of the many young children sent 'Home' from the East to be fos
A box of delights - another masterpiece from Jane Gardam and a companion novel to OLD FILTH.Filth (Failed In London, Try Hong Kong) is a successful lawyer when he marries Elisabeth in Hong Kong soon a
Third book in the Old Filth trilogy (Old Filth, The Man in the Wooden Hat, Last Friends). The marriage of Edward Feathers and Betty as seen through the eyes of Edwards friend and Betty's lover Terry V
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
?I ought to tell you at the beginning that I am not quite normal having had a violent experience at the age of nine' Jessica Vye's 'violent experience' colors her schooldays and her reaction to the wo
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 rai
Originally published in 1977, Jane Gardam's Bilgewater is an affectionate and complex rendering-in-miniature of the discomforts of growing up and first love seen through the eyes of inimitable Marigol
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
Jane Gardam, author of the Old Filth Trilogy, delivers another modern classic in The Flight of the Maidens. With her characteristic wit, Gardam captures a moment in time for three young women on the c
A moving novel follows three unforgettable young Yorkshire women--Hetty Fallowes, determined to separate herself from her controlling mother; Una Vane, who delves into a relationship with a man from t
The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern literature. A lyrical novel that recalls his fully lived life, Old Filth has been acclaimed as Jane Gardam
Faith Fox has led a life full of heartbreak and abandonment, lacking in simplicity and love—and she’s not even one week old. She has suffered the unexpected and inexplicable loss of her m
A new collection of stories from a writer at the height of her powersA-a celebrated stylist admired for her caustic humor, freewheeling imagination, love of humanity and wicked powers of observation.
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 HOLLOW LAND. Everyd
In 1904, six-year-old Polly Flint is sent to live with her aunt’s in a house by the sea. Orphaned shortly thereafter, Polly will spend the next eighty years stranded in this quiet corner of the world
To escape her religious father and bitter mother, Margaret Marsh roams the meadows and beaches of coastal England, where she meets childhood friends of her mother that expose her to a side of her moth
