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Old Filth
Av Jane Gardam
Häftad, 2014
4,4 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (10)
144 kr
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'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'I love …
De sista vännerna
Av Jane Gardam
Pocket, 2018
3,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (7)
89 kr
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I den tredje och avslutande delen av trilogin om imperiets barn skildrar Jane Gardam advokaten Terry Veneerings liv och hans mycket laddade förhållande till kollegan och konkurrenten Sir Edward Feathers, vars hustru Betty alltid varit föremålet för de bådas åtrå. Och precis som de båda andra har …
En trogen kvinna
Av Jane Gardam
Pocket, 2018
3,9 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (9)
89 kr
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I den andra delen av Jane Gardams trilogi om imperiets barn är det Betty Feathers som står i centrum. Uppvuxen i Kina, tidigt föräldralös och utan någon verklig riktning i livet möter hon den engelske advokaten Edward Feathers, gifter sig och förblir honom trogen i ett barnlöst äktenskap. Men lika …
En engelsk gentleman
Av Jane Gardam
Pocket, 2018
3,8 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (24)
89 kr
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Sitt smeknamn, eller kanske öknamn, har han hittat på själv, med all den självironi en man uppväxt i utkanterna av det engelska imperiet kan uppbringa: Gamle Filth (Failed In London, Try Hongkong). Sir Edward Feathers var en gång en uppburen advokat och domare i Hongkong, nu är han gammal och …
Last Friends
Av Jane Gardam
Häftad, 2014
4,8 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (4)
144 kr
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'Gardam writes about love, death, loneliness, money and madness with gentle ferocity. The Old Filth trilogy should be read by anyone who has ever been interested in how we become who we are' Amanda Craig, Independent on Sunday'Sharp, humane, generous and wonderfully funny, she is one of our very …
Stories
Av Jane Gardam
Häftad, 2015
144 kr
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'Pure delight' The TimesThroughout 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 …
The Man In The Wooden Hat
Av Jane Gardam
Häftad, 2014
4,8 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (5)
144 kr
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'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 …
De sista vännerna
Av Jane Gardam
Ljudbok, 2017
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
169 kr
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I den tredje och avslutande delen av trilogin om 'imperiets barn' skildrar Jane Gardam advokaten Terry Veneerings liv och hans mycket laddade förhållande till kollegan och konkurrenten Sir Edward Feathers, vars hustru Betty alltid varit föremålet för de bådas åtrå. Och precis som de båda andra har …
En engelsk gentleman
Av Jane Gardam
Ljudbok, 2017
4,3 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
169 kr
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Sitt smeknamn, eller kanske öknamn, har han hittat på själv, med all den självironi en man uppväxt i utkanterna av det engelska imperiet kan uppbringa: Gamle Filth (Failed In London, Try Hongkong). Sir Edward Feathers var en gång en uppburen advokat och domare i Hongkong, nu är han gammal och …
Old Filth
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
Av Jane Gardam
E-bok, 2013
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
61 kr
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Jane Gardam''s funny and wise masterpiece, reissued with a new introduction by Nina Stibbe '' Old Filth has stayed with me for years'' SATHNAM SANGHERA ''Sharp, humane, generous and wonderfully funny'' HILARY MANTEL ''The last great book I read'' RACHEL WEISZ ''Gardam''s masterpiece'' GUARDIAN …
Bilgewater
Av Jane Gardam
Häftad, 1985
144 kr
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'One of the funniest, most entertaining, most unusual stories about young love' Evening Standard Marigold Green calls herself 'hideous, quaint and barmy'. Other people calle her Bilgewater, a corruption of Bill's daughter. Growing up motherless in a boys' school where her father is housemaster, she …
Queen Of The Tambourine
‘Brilliant’ The Sunday Times
Av Jane Gardam
Häftad, 1992
144 kr
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'Excellently done . . . Manic delusions have never been so persuasive . . . Very moving when it is not being exceedingly funny' Anita Brookner'An ingenious, funny, satirical, sad story . . . Vivid and poignant' Independent on Sunday'Wickedly comic . . . masterly and hugely enjoyable' Daily …
Crusoe's Daughter
Av Jane Gardam
Häftad, 2012
144 kr
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'Touching, terribly sad, funny: a smashing novel' The TimesIn 1904, six-year-old Polly Flint is sent by her sea captain father to live with her two holy aunts in a house by the sea on England's northeast coast. The house is so close to the sea it seems to toss like a ship, and so isolated, she …
It’s a Man’s Life, Ladies
A Short Story from the Collection, Reader, I Married Him
Av Jane Gardam
E-bok, 2016
78 kr
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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 together …
Summer After The Funeral
Av Jane Gardam
Häftad, 1992
154 kr
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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, …
Going Into A Dark House
Av Jane Gardam
Häftad, 1995
154 kr
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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 …
Pangs Of Love
Av Jane Gardam
Häftad, 1997
154 kr
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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 …
Black Faces, White Faces
Av Jane Gardam
Häftad, 1990
154 kr
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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.
Sidmouth Letters
Av Jane Gardam
Häftad, 1988
144 kr
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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 …
Flight Of The Maidens
Av Jane Gardam
Häftad, 2001
144 kr
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'A formidably intelligent, gentle, comic genius' A.N. Wilson'Gardam is a brilliantly subtle comedian who can keep the reader enraptured until the last page' The TimesSet during the post-war summer of 1946, The Flight of the Maidens follows the growing-up of three young women in the months between …
People On Privilege Hill
Av Jane Gardam
Häftad, 2008
144 kr
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'Gardam's prose is so economical that no moment she describes is either gratuitous or wasted' The New YorkerIt 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, …
Faith Fox
Av Jane Gardam
Häftad, 2008
144 kr
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'She does fiction as it should be done, with confidence and insight' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 'Terribly funny & clever ... the best thing she's done' Victoria Wood'Brilliant on sex, brilliant on bereavement and death, brilliant on god, brilliant on dottiness' A. N. Wilson, Evening StandardWhen …
God On The Rocks
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1978
Av Jane Gardam
Häftad, 2008
144 kr
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'A meticulously observed modern classic' IndependentDuring 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 …
Long Way From Verona
Av Jane Gardam
Häftad, 2009
144 kr
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'Jane Gardam is a wonderful writer. Her understanding of character and use of language are both remarkable' The Times'A Long Way from Verona is a brilliant, witty, and agonizingly true-to-life novel' Times Literary Supplement'A fiercly funny and personal book' Economist'Comedy and sympathy are the …
Showing The Flag
Av Jane Gardam
Häftad, 2009
235 kr
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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.
Showing The Flag
Av Jane Gardam
E-bok, 2016
45 kr
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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.
Sidmouth Letters
Av Jane Gardam
E-bok, 2016
45 kr
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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 …
Hollow Land
Av Jane Gardam
E-bok, 2020
45 kr
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Her territory isn''t young or old; it''s the heart-and brain-matter of people, their desires and worries and fantasies and intricate interactions. All of this is set capably against a particular landscape, and the result tends to be vivid and real. Beautiful, like Willa Cather'' Meg Wolitzer, New …
Hollow Land
Av Jane Gardam
Häftad, 2020
144 kr
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'Her territory isn't young or old; it's the heart-and brain-matter of people, their desires and worries and fantasies and intricate interactions. All of this is set capably against a particular landscape, and the result tends to be vivid and real. Beautiful, like Willa Cather' Meg Wolitzer, New …
