Gardam

‘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 u

* A reissue of one of Jane Gardam's best-loved novels

A genuine masterpiece - funny, brilliant and wise.

A wonderful bittersweet story about a misguided do-gooder.

Het zou een leven lang duren - en Betty is dan al over- leden - totdat Edward Feathers en Terry Veneering, als advocaten felle tegenstanders in tal

A treasure trove of short stories from the beloved author of the Old Filth trilogy.

Another masterpiece from Jane Gardam and the second novel in the Old Filth trilogy. Filth (Failed In London, Try Hong Kong) is a successful lawyer wh

Eliza Peabody is een van die gevaarlijk onberispelijke vrouwen die geloven dat ze de waarheid in pacht hebben. Ze is een moderne Florence Nightingale,

Winner of the Macmillan Silver Pen Award 1995

A mysterious clergyman is dead. His daughter Athene is desolate. Through a muddle and the vagueness of her family, Athene finds herself in the summer

A loosely connected sequence of stories, offering vignettes of human foibles from the holiday island of Jamaica. Mrs Filling sees something nasty in t

This funny and wise masterpiece is being reissued as one of five titles celebrating Abacus's 50th anniversary, with a new introduction from Nina Stibb

A stunning novel, winner of the Whitbread Award, by the author of Old Filth and Last Friends.

A 'violent experience' at the age of nine colours Jessica Vye's schooldays and her reaction to the world around her, for she has been told that she is

A delightful and touching novel set in post-war summer of 1946 as three young women embark on the adult world.

Begin jaren zestig keert Betty, op dat moment nog Elizabeth, terug naar haar geliefde, lawaaiige en naar heerlijk eten geurende Hongkong, waar zij is

*A moving, Booker shortlisted story of a girl's coming of age, beautifully rejacketed for this reissue

‘Laat ik maar meteen vertellen dat ik door een overweldigende ervaring op mijn negende niet meer helemaal normaal ben.’ De overweldigende ervaring