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Last Friends (Old Filth # 3) by Jane Gardam
19.99 AUD
Category: 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
22.99 AUD
Category: 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 by Jane Gardam; Nina Stibbe (Introduction by)
22.99 AUD
Category: 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
22.99 AUD
Category: 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
14.99 AUD
Category: 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
The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam
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Category: 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
The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth #2) by Jane Gardam
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'What a lot Jane Gardam knows about love and its accommodations...And how elegantly and intelligently and kindly she writes about the instinctive, tendril-like gropings of one human heart towards another' Jane Shilling, Telegraph 'On its own, The Man in the Wooden Hat is funny and affecting, but read al ...Show more
The People on Privilege Hill by Jane Gardam
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Category: Fiction
It is a wet day in Dorset, and walking to a luncheon party is Sir Edward Feathers QC, followed by two elderly friends: his scruffy neighbour and sparring partner, Veneering, and Fiscal-Smith, the meanest lawyer ever to make a fortune at the Bar. Fans of Jane Gardam's bestselling novel, Old Filth, will ...Show more
The Stories by Jane Gardam
39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Throughout her career, prize-winning novelist Jane Gardam has been writing glorious short stories, each one hallmarked with all the originality, poignancy, wry comedy and narrative brilliance of her longer fiction. Passion and longing, metamorphosis and enchantment are Gardam's themes, and like a magic ...Show more
The Stories by Jane Gardam
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Throughout her career, prize-winning novelist Jane Gardam has been writing glorious short stories, each one hallmarked with all the originality, poignancy, wry comedy and narrative brilliance of her longer fiction. Passion and longing, metamorphosis and enchantment are Gardam's themes, and like a magici ...Show more
The Vet's Daughter: A Virago Modern Classic by Barbara Comyns; Jane Gardam (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The Vet's Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridden wife and shy daughter Alice in a sinister London suburb. He works constantly, captive to a strange private fury, and treats his family with brutality and contempt. After his wife's death, the vet takes u ...Show more
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