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Jane Gardam

UK  (1928 - )
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About Jane Gardam
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.
 
New and Forthcoming Paperbacks

The People on Privilege Hill
The People on Privilege Hill

Non fiction
The Iron Coast
 
Anthologies containing stories by Jane Gardam
Supernatural StoriesThe Armless Maiden: And Other Tales for Childhood's SurvivorsThe Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories
 
Short stories
Bang, Bang - Who's Dead? (1987)
The Pangs of Love (1990)
The Meeting House (1994)


Awards
The Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1978) : God on the Rocks
Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction Best Novel nominee (2005) : Old Filth


Jane Gardam recommends
In the Place of Fallen Leaves
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."



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