Jane Gardam, Author . Carroll & Graf $35 (278p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0879-6
Here is a great vacation read—but it's definitely not a throwaway. Prolific English novelist Gardam, Whitbread Award winner for both The Hollow Land
and Queen of the Tambourine,
has crafted a story through which readers can step into...
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Jane Gardam, Author . Carroll & Graf $25 (312p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1221-2
A motherless baby named Faith is the linchpin of this delightfully eccentric comedy of manners and miracles by Gardam, a two-time winner of the Whitbread Prize (The Hollow Land
; The Queen of the Tambourine)
. First published in Great Britain in...
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Jane Gardam, Author . Europa $14.95 (289p) ISBN 978-1-933372-13-6
British novelist Gardam has twice won the Whitbread and was shortlisted for the Man Booker. This, her 15th novel, was shortlisted in Britain for the Orange Prize; it outlines 20th-century British history through the life of Sir Edward Feathers, a...
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Jane Gardam, Author . Europa $15.95 (196p) ISBN 978-1-933372-56-3
Wry, economical and perpetually surprising, these 14 stories from English novelist Gardam (Old Filth
) follow the last of the intrepid, stiff upper lip WWII generation of British ladies and gentlemen. In the title story, octogenarian widower Edward...
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Jane Gardam, Author . Europa $15 (232p) ISBN 978-1-933372-89-1
Octogenarian Gardam's latest, told with quintessentially British humor, bookends the two-time Whitbread winner's earlier novel, Old Filth
, about a barrister who becomes a renowned lawyer in the Far East whose nickname, Filth, speaks...
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Jane Gardam, Europa (Penguin, dist.), $15 (208p) ISBN 978-1-933372-76-1
American readers first turned on to Gardam via Old Filth are in for a surprise with the witty though decidedly more serious story of Margaret Marsh, who comes of age in interwar England. Margaret grows up the only child in an oppressively religious...
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Jane Gardam, Author Yearling Books $3.25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-40433-0
Friends Mary and Claire, who as children shared playtimes with their special dolls, now have children of their own to continue the tradition; PW praised this ``clever bit of characterization, told with humor and imaginative zeal.'' Ages 9-12. (Apr.)
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Jane Gardam, Author Picador USA $11 (226p) ISBN 978-0-312-14398-5
Winner of Britain's Whitbread Award, Gardam's darkly comic novel is in the form of a series of letters written by a mentally disintegrating woman. (July)
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Jane Gardam, Author Atheneum Books $12.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-689-11792-3
Polly Flint, the central figure in this civilized English novel, is six years old as it opens in 1904, an old woman at its end, in 1985her mind and imagination filled with the presence of her heroic exemplar, Robinson Crusoe. Installed by her...
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Jane Gardam, Author Greenwillow Books $11.95 (120p) ISBN 978-0-688-07447-0
The premise of Gardam's latest novel is one with which most readers are familiarthat dolls come to life. Here, an eclectic group of dolls shared by English schoolgirls Mary and Claire tell their life histories while stuffed within the confines of...
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Jane Gardam, Author Greenwillow Books $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-07602-3
Wistful and childlike, Gardam's collection of short stories focuses on large and small crises in Lucy's life, such as wandering away from her home by the sea (in ``The Wonderful Day''), getting terribly wet, meeting her elderly aunts and returning...
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Jane Gardam, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-13151-7
This splendidly engaging, quirky epistolary novel is told from the point of view of Eliza Peabody, a middle-aged woman living in present-day South London. Eliza is an exceptionally unreliable narrator who begins a fervid letter-writing campaign to...
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Jane Gardam. Europa, $18 (208p) ISBN 978-1-60945-093-9
Completing the trilogy begun by Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat, Gardam's impeccable finale revisits the triad of Edward "Old Filth" Feathers; his wife, Betty; and his rival (and Betty's lover), Terry Veneering. Although this third...
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Jane Gardham. Europa (Penguin, dist.), $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-60945-199-8
The 28 short stories in this magnificent selection from British author Gardam date from 1977 to 2007, and span the length of her career. Some of these stories are connected to novels: “Old Filth,” like Gardam’s signature novel of the same name, is...
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Jane Gardam. Europa (Penguin, dist.), $15 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-60945-246-9
Fans of Gardam’s Old Filth trilogy will be pleased to discover this book of linked stories, first published in 1981. The collection follows the friendship of Harry Bateman and Bell Teasdale and their mischievous adventures in the Cumbrian...
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