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A Long Way from Verona by Jane Gardam
29.99 NZD
Category: General 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
DNO The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam
47.99 NZD
Category: General 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
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
When sweet, healthy hearty Holly Fox dies suddenly in childbirth, the Surrey village whose pearl she was reverberates with shock. She leaves behind her a helpless, silent husband, and a tiny daughter, Faith. Everyone assumes Holly's loving and capable mother Thomasina will look after Faith, but when she ...Show more
God on the Rocks by Jane Gardam
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
During 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, a ...Show more
Last Friends by Jane Gardam
36.99 NZD
Category: General 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
27.99 NZD
Category: General 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
27.99 NZD
Category: General 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 by Jane Gardam
27.99 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: General 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: Classic Books
'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
Showing the Flag by Jane Gardam
27.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
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.
The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Filth (Failed In London, Try Hong Kong) is a successful lawyer when he marries Elisabeth in Hong Kong soon after the War. Reserved, immaculate and courteous, Filth finds it hard to demonstrate his emotions. But Elisabeth is different - a free spirit. She was brought up in the Japanese Internment Camps, ...Show more