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Jane Gardam

(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)

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)

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)

Novellas

Facing the Music (2013)

Non fiction

The Iron Coast (1994)

Anthologies containing stories by Jane Gardam

The Armless Maiden (1995)
Supernatural Stories (1995)
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996)

Short stories

	Bang, Bang - Who's Dead? (1987)
	The Pangs of Love (1990)
	The Meeting House (1994)

Awards

	The Man 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

Jane Gardam recommends

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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