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Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Abacus
- Paperback Feb 14, 2023 | 9780349145266 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Paperback Mar 11, 2014 | 9780349139494 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Jun 4, 2015 | 9781405532440 | RRP $33.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Jan 17, 2013 | 9781405525480 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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Abacus
- Paperback Feb 14, 2023 | 9780349145266 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Paperback Mar 11, 2014 | 9780349139494 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Jun 4, 2015 | 9781405532440 | RRP $33.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Jan 17, 2013 | 9781405525480 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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Little, Brown Audio
- Paperback Feb 14, 2023 | 9780349145266 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Paperback Mar 11, 2014 | 9780349139494 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Jun 4, 2015 | 9781405532440 | RRP $33.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Jan 17, 2013 | 9781405525480 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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Abacus
- Paperback Feb 14, 2023 | 9780349145266 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Paperback Mar 11, 2014 | 9780349139494 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Jun 4, 2015 | 9781405532440 | RRP $33.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Jan 17, 2013 | 9781405525480 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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This funny and wise masterpiece is being reissued as part of Abacus's 50th anniversary celebrations, with a new introduction from Nina Stibbe
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
Filth, in his heydey, was an international lawyer with a practice in the Far East. Now, only the oldest QCs can remember that his nickname stood for Failed In London Try Hong Kong. Long ago, Old Filth was a Raj orphan - one of the many young children sent 'Home' from the East to be fostered and educated in England. Jane Gardam's novel tells his story, from his birth in what was then Malaya to the extremities of his old age. In doing so, she not only encapsulates a whole period from the glory days of the British Empire, through the Second World War, to the present and beyond, but also illuminates the complexities of the character known variously as Eddie, the Judge, Fevvers, Filth, Master of the Inner Temple, Teddy and Sir Edward Feathers.
Praise for Old Filth: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
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Beautiful, vivid and defiantly funny - The Times
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I recommend it wholeheartedly for its economy, breadth of narrative, and its insight, humour and pathos - Mail on Sunday
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What a spiky brilliant sledgehammer of a novel is Jane Gardam's Old Filth - Patrick Ness
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This novel is surely Gardam's masterpiece. On the human level, it is one of the most moving fictions I have read for years . . . This is the rare novel that drives its reader forward while persistently waylaying and detaining by the sheer beauty and inventiveness of its style. One must savour every phrase. The marriage of quirky eccentricity and psychological authenticity is a Gardam technique, but here her cunning wit, moving deftly between scenes and eras, displays the tragedy of a vintage world forever passing away - Guardian
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She does fiction as it should be done, with confidence and insight - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, praise for The Stories
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Typical excellence and compulsive readability . . . the miracle of "Old Filth" is that its hero eludes sociological or psychological pigeonholing. If he is a characteristic Raj orphan, he is also triumphantly his own man - New York Times
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