Jane Gardam: 28 books

From the inimitable Jane Gardam, whose Old Filth trilogy cemented her status as one of England’s greatest living novelists, comes a collection of short stories that showcase her subversive wit, gentle humor, and insight into the human condition. Gardam’s versatility is on full display, while her sublime grasp of language and powers of observation remain as provocative as ever.

It is with great pleasure that Europa Editions makes this Booker Prize short-listed novel newly available to the legions of Gardam fans.   Originally published in Great Britain in 1978, the novel describes Margaret Marsh¹s coming of age one summer between the world wars. Caught in the backwash of...

Een onberispelijke man Alles aan Edward Feathers is vlekkeloos - zijn garderobe, zijn manieren, zijn naam en faam als topadvocaat met een glansrijke carrière in Hongkong. Door en door een gentleman, die zijn bijnaam Old Filth - Failed In London Try Hong Kong - geen eer aandoet. Maar zijn onberispelijkheid...

Jane Gardam, author of the Old Filth Trilogy, delivers another modern classic in The Flight of the Maidens. With her characteristic wit, Gardam captures a moment in time for three young women on the cusp of adulthood. With keen perception the novel charts the course of this trio as they boldly face...

Book One in Jane Gardam's Old Filth Trilogy Sir Edward Feathers has had a brilliant career, from his early days as a lawyer in Southeast Asia, where he earned the nickname Old Filth (FILTH being an acronym for Failed In London Try Hong Kong) to his final working days as a respected judge at...

Book Two in Jane Gardam's Old Filth Trilogy The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern literature. A lyrical novel that recalls his fully lived life, Old Filth has been acclaimed as Jane Gardam?s masterpiece, a book where life and art merge....

Per quale ragione «L’ho sposato, lettore mio» è una delle frasi più celebri e citate della letteratura inglese? La risposta, tutt’altro che ovvia, risiede nel capolavoro da cui è tratta: Jane Eyre (1847), la storia di un’orfana che, grazie alla sola intelligenza e caparbietà, riesce a...

Originally published in 1977, Jane Gardam's Bilgewater is an affectionate and complex rendering-in-miniature of the discomforts of growing up and first love seen through the eyes of inimitable Marigold Green, an awkward, eccentric, highly intelligent girl. The Evening Standard described Bilgewater...

A short story by Jane Gardam from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre. In ‘It’s a Man’s Life, Ladies’, a young woman tells the story of her grandmother’s memories of married life. Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader, I Married Him, brings...

'It's a cliche to compare novelists to Jane Austen, but in the case of Jane Gardam it happens to be true. Her diamond-like prose, her understanding of the human heart, her formal inventiveness and her sense of what it is to be alive - young, old, lonely, in love - never fades' Amanda Craig 'Her...

La riproposta della fortunata trilogia dell’autrice britannica Jane Gardam con protagonista Sir Edward Feathers, meglio conosciuto come «Old Filth», celebre ex avvocato e stimato giudice in pensione che affronta la vecchiaia nel Dorset, dopo una brillante carriera a Hong Kong. Per chi ha amato i 'Melrose' di Edward St Aubyn e la saga della famiglia Cazalet di Elizabeth Jane Howard.

Het zou een leven lang duren totdat Edward Feathers en Terry Veneering, als advocaten felle tegenstanders in talloze processen, zich realiseren dat zij net zo goed vrienden hadden kunnen zijn. En toch: het blijft voor Edward een raadsel wat Betty zo aantrekkelijk vond aan Veneering. Hij is dan wel...

Is liefde een kwestie van principes? Na 'Een onberispelijke man' (DWDD Boek van de Maand) het - ook zelfstandig te lezen - vervolg: Betty's verhaal van haar huwelijk met Edward Feathers. Begin jaren zestig, het zijn de laatste dagen van het British Empire, keert Betty terug naar haar geliefde Hongkong,...

Book Three in Jane Gardam's Old Filth trilogy. Last Friends is the third and concluding novel in the highly praised trilogy that began with Old Filth and continued with The Man in the Wooden Hat. The haunting first novel was the story of a decades-long marriage that stretched from the...