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Jane Gardam


UK flag (b.1928)

Jane Gardam is a novelist, writer of short stories and author of children's books. She also reviews for the Spectator and the Telegraph, and writes for BBC radio, where her current project is 6 programmes on the suburbs. She lives in Kent, Wimbledon and Yorkshire. She is a winner of The Heywood Hill Literary Prize for a Lifetime's Contribution to Literature, twice winner of The Whitbread Fiction Award (for The Hollow Land and Queen of the Tambourine), and has been shortlisted for the Booker for God on the Rocks (which was also filmed for British TV). Her other books include The Flight of the Maidens, Faith Fox, Going into a Dark House and Missing the Midnight.
 
 
Series
Old Filth
   1. Old Filth (2004)
   2. The Man in the Wooden Hat (2009)
   3. Last Friends (2013)
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Novels
   A Few Fair Days (1971)
   A Long Way from Verona (1971)
   The Summer After the Funeral (1973)
   Black Faces, White Faces (1975)
   Bilgewater (1976)
   The Pineapple Bay Hotel (1976)
   God on the Rocks (1978)
   The Sidmouth Letters (1980)
   Bridget and William (1981)
   Horse (1982)
   Kit (1983)
   Crusoe's Daughter (1985)
   Kit in Boots (1986)
   Swan (1987)
   Through the Doll's House Door (1987)
   The Queen of the Tambourine (1991)
   Black Woolly Pony (1993)
   Faith Fox (1996)
   Missing the Midnight (1997)
   The Green Man (1998)
   The Flight of the Maidens (2000)
   The Pangs Of Love (2012)
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Collections
   The Hollow Land (1981)
   The Pangs of Love and Other Stories (1983)
   Kit / Kit in Boots (1988)
   Showing the Flag (1989)
   Trio (1993)
   Going into a Dark House (1994)
   Magical Stories (1995)
   Stories for Five-Year-Olds (1995)
   Stories for Six-Year-Olds (1995)
   Animal Stories (1995)
   Tufty Bear (1996)
   The Kit Stories (1998)
   The People on Privilege Hill (2007)
   The Stories (2012)
   Stories of Jane Gardam (2014)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Facing the Music (2013)
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Non fiction show
 
Jane Gardam recommends
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In the Place of Fallen Leaves (1993)
Tim Pears
"It is most beautifully written, hypnotic as Proust, very funny and full of love that doesn't cloy... It is a dreamy, easy, wonderful read - and quite remarkable for a first novel."

Anthologies containing stories by Jane Gardam
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Reader, I Married Him (2016)
Stories Inspired by Jane Eyre
edited by
Tracy Chevalier
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Life (2013)
Great Short Stories for Women by Women
edited by
Victoria Hislop

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Awards
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1978) : God on the Rocks
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2005) : Old Filth
Women's Prize For Fiction Best Novel nominee (2005) : Old Filth
Rathbone Folio Prize Best Book nominee (2014) : Last Friends


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