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A Long Way from Verona by Jane Gardam
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'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' colours her schooldays and her reaction to the world around her- a confining world of Order Marks, wartime restrictions, viyella dresses, nicely-restrai ...Show more
Crusoe's Daughter by Jane Gardam
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
In 1904, when she was six, Polly Flint went to live with her two holy aunts at the yellow house by the marsh - so close to the sea that it seemed to toss like a ship, so isolated that she might have been marooned on an island. And there she stayed for eighty-one years, while the century raged around her ...Show more
DNO The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam
$48.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Written from the perspective of Filth's wife, "Betty", this is a story which will make the reader weep for the missed opportunities, while laughing aloud for the joy and the wit. Filth (Failed In London Try Hong Kong) is a successful lawyer when he marries Elisabeth in Hong Kong soon after the War. Rese ...Show more
Faith Fox by Jane Gardam
$30.00 NZD
Category: No Category
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 mother in childbirth; her father, an overworked doctor grown callous with stress, has neither the ability nor the inte ...Show more
Last Friends by Jane Gardam
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Old Filth #3 | Reading Level: very good
Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat told with bristling tenderness and black humour the stories of that Titan of the Hong Kong law courts, Old Filth QC, and his clever, misunderstood wife Betty. Last Friends, the final volume of this trilogy, picks up with Terence Veneering, Filth's great rival in w ...Show more
Last Friends (Old Filth # 3) by Jane Gardam
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'Like Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, the Old Filth trilogy restores us to an era rich in spectacle and bristling with insinuation and intrigue' Boston Globe 'Sharp, humane, generous and wonderfully funny, she is one of our very finest writers' Hilary MantelShortlisted for the 2014 Folio Prize.Old ...Show more
Old Filth by Jane Gardam
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Filth, in his heyday, was an international lawyer with a practice in the Far East. Now, only the oldest QCs and Silks can remember that his nickname stood for Failed In London Try Hong Kong. Long ago, Old Filth was a Raj orphan - one of the many young children sent 'Home' from the East to tbe fostered a ...Show more
Old Filth: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction by Jane Gardam
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
'I love Jane Gardam, especially Old Filth' Nina Stibbe'One of the finest writers around. Old Filth has stayed with me for years...Can't think of anyone who achieves so much with so few words' Sathnam Sanghera'Her work, like Sylvia Townsend Warner's, has that appealing combination of elegance, erudition ...Show more
Old Filth by Jane Gardam
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'Jane Gardam's work is rich and diverse and she writes beautifully. She's a treasure of contemporary English writing' Ian McEwan 'What a spiky brilliant sledgehammer of a novel is Jane Gardam's Old Filth' Patrick Ness Sir Edward Feathers has had a brilliant career, from his early days as a lawyer in S ...Show more
Old Filth - Abacus 40th edition by Jane Gardam
$20.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Abacus 40th Anniversary
Long ago, Old Filth was a Raj orphan - one of the many young children sent 'Home' from the East to be fostered and educated in England. Jane Gardam's novel tells his story, from his birth in what was then Malaya to the extremities of his old age. In so doing, she not only encapsulates a whole period fro ...Show more
Showing the Flag by Jane Gardam
$30.00 NZD
Category: No Category
The flag that is shown, literally and metaphorically, by these characters is always the Union Jack. Gardam's stories are acutely observed social commentaries on Englishness, its weaknesses and its illusions.