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1	Old Filth more books like this by Jane Gardam add to wishlist Old Filth was a 'child of the raj'. His earliest memories are of his amah, a teenage Malay girl - not of his mother who is dead, nor his father who can't cope. But very soon he is torn away from the only person who loves him, and sent to be educated at 'Home', where he is boarded out with strangers...What is the terrible secret that the children ... see all copies from $4.95! new only from $9.13! \| SVS
2	The Queen of the Tambourine more books like this by Jane Gardam add to wishlist This winner of the 1991 Whitbread Best Novel of the Year Award traces the descent of Eliza Peabody into madness. Eliza's emotional breakdown occurs during a period of unbearable loneliness, during which she writes to her neighbor Joan to berate her for leaving her husband and children to travel the world. As more letters are presented, one ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.49! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Man in the Wooden Hat more books like this by Jane Gardam add to wishlist 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. Reserved, immaculate and courteous, Filth finds ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $8.54! \| SVS
4	God on the rocks more books like this by Jane Gardam add to wishlist 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, anchored in the past and a game of words; ... see all copies from $2.45! new only from $9.12! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	A long way from Verona more books like this by Jane Gardam add to wishlist '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-restrained essays and dusty tea shops. For Jessica ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.68! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The People on Privilege Hill more books like this by Jane Gardam add to wishlist Jane Gardam's delightful short stories range from the Lake District to Dorset; from Wimbledon, where an old Victorian mansion has been converted into a home for unmarried mothers, to wartime London, where a hospital is the scene of a job interview in the middle of the Blitz.In "Pangbourne" (not, in this instance, the place, but the name of an ape) ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $9.27!
7	The flight of the maidens more books like this by Jane Gardam add to wishlist At the end of the summer of 1946, Hetty, Una, and Lieselotte endure the stifling life in their small and boring Yorkshire village until scholarships to university enable them to escape. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.39! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The People on Privilege Hill and Other Stories more books like this by Jane Gardam add to wishlist From the author of "Old Filth," a "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year, comes this new collection of stories that showcases Gardam's caustic humor, freewheeling imagination, and wicked powers of observation. see all copies from $4.13! new only from $11.98! \| SVS
9	Faith Fox more books like this by Jane Gardam add to wishlist When little Faith Fox's mother dies giving birth to her, she is dumped by her negligent father, Andrew, at the hippie community where his brother is the guru. Faith's fate is in dispute as various relatives, including dotty grandparents, a pair of burglars, and an 11-year-old half-cousin try to figure out what on earth to do with the child. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Sidmouth Letters more books like this by Jane Gardam add to wishlist Jane Austen's love life- long the subject of speculation- is finally, delightfully dealt with in the title story of this collection. Many of the other stories, like 'The Sidmouth Letters,' bring together past and present- with sometimes hilarious, sometimes disturbing, often intensely moving results. With quiet elegance and devastating accuracy, ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $9.92! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Bilgewater more books like this by Jane Gardam add to wishlist Marigold Green calls herself 'hideous, quaint and barmy'. Other people calle her Bilgewater, a corruption of Bill's daughter. Growing up in a boys' school where her father is housemaster, she is convinced of her own plainness and peculiarity. Groomed by the wise and loving Paula, upstaged by bad, beautiful Grace and ripe for seduction by ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.39! \| first editions
12	Through the Dolls' House Door more books like this by Jane Gardam add to wishlist A children's fantasy, in which a collection of dolls is revealed to have a life and a history of its own. After they are abandoned by the two little girls who own them, the dolls begin to tell each other stories, and these narratives make up the better part of the tale. Although some of them, like one re-telling of Homer's Odyssey, are clearly ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.00! \| first editions
13 view cover	Crusoe's daughter more books like this by Jane Gardam add to wishlist In 1904, at the age of six, Polly goes to live with her two holy aunts. The house is so close to the sea it seems to toss like a ship, and so isolated, Polly might be marooned on an island. There she lives for 81 years, while the century rages around her and Victorian order becomes nuclear dread. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $29.72! \| first editions
14 view cover	The summer after the funeral more books like this by Jane Gardam add to wishlist A rather mysterious old clergyman is dead, and his most adoring child, sixteen-year-old Athene is desolate. A statuesque beauty, greatly admired, she is also lonely, untouchable and living a secret life of fairly dangerous fantasy. Athene's mother, at once highly organised and monumentally vague, dispatches her children to spend the holidays with ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.29! \| first editions
15 view cover	The pangs of love. more books like this by Jane Gardam add to wishlist With her customary accuracy, Jane Gardam reveals the extraordinariness of ordinary people as she deals with the pangs of love- fulfilled or hopeless, sexual or spiritual, tortured or hilarious- in these eleven stories. Paraded here are ladies with a 'thing' about vicars, strange events happening in ornate downstairs lavatories (and in ornate ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.94! \| first editions
16 view cover	Black woolly pony ; White chalk horse. more books like this by Jane Gardam, Janet Rawlins add to wishlist This is a collection of two books in one volume, both are stories about young girls and horses. The first story is about Bridget. Bridget loves her woolly pony William, but her father thinks that he is just a waste of money, until the day of the great snow storm. In the second story, the huge chalk cut-out horse on the hillside above Susan's ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $77.78! \| first editions
17 view cover	Going Into a Dark House more books like this by Jane Gardam add to wishlist 'Molly Fielding's mother had been a terrible woman...' A terrible woman indeed. One need only to look at the old sepia photograph to see a vision of nastiness. The look of cunning, the self-satisfied smile, the aura of hauteur as she watches the little Italian photographer go about his business. They say the camera never lies, but maybe this one ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $67.98! \| first editions
18 view cover	Missing the midnight : hauntings & grotesques more books like this by Jane Gardam add to wishlist Jane Gardam reveals again her brilliant diversity and deep understanding of the human condition. In 'Light', an evocative, lyrical piece of magic realism, a beautiful Himalayan girl defies the destiny laid out for her by her mother, but in so doing destroys the village in which she was born. In 'Missing the Midnight', a young woman having failed ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $60.24! \| first editions
19 view cover	Black faces, white faces more books like this by Jane Gardam add to wishlist A loosely connected sequence of stories, offering vignettes of human foibles from the holiday island of Jamaica. Mrs Filling sees something nasty in the midday sun; an English lawyer dallies while his wife goes mad in England; sexuality flares and everywhere farce and racial tension lurk. see all copies from $2.53! signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Missing the Midnight more books like this by Jane Gardam add to wishlist A collection of short stories from one of the most satisfying prose stylists of contemporary British fiction. Some have a Christmas theme, others are fables, many of them carry a touch of surrealism. The author is the winner of numerous literary prizes, including the Macmillan Silver Pen Award. see all copies from $2.53! new only from $13.31! \| signed copies \| first editions
21	The Iron Coast: Photographs of Yorkshire more books like this by Peter Burton (Photographer), Jane Gardam, Harland Walshaw (Photographer) add to wishlist This collection of photographs is accompanied by Jane Gardam's text, and concentrates mainly on a wild and beautiful part of Yorkshire known as the Iron Coast. It is a celebration of a varied and extraordinary landscape, its history and people. see all copies from $12.01! new only from $77.76!
22 view cover	The green man : an eternity by Jane Gardam, Mary Fedden add to wishlist This story offers a modern twist on the myth of the green man - the ancient fertility image of legend, church carvings and pub signs. see all copies from $14.41! first editions
23	Swan by Jane Gardam, John Dillow add to wishlist see all copies from $2.53! first editions
24	The pangs of love : and other stories by Jane Gardam add to wishlist see all copies from $28.29! first editions
25 view cover	Un Poney en la Nieve more books like this by Jane Gardam add to wishlist Bridget loved her pony, William, and it was difficult for her to have everybody make fun of him all the time. Then one day, when a big snowstorm strands Bridget's family, William saves the day. A story that will gladden the hearts of children. see all copies from $4.39! SVS

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