Jane Mary Gardam was an English writer of children’s and adult fiction and literary critic. She also penned reviews for The Spectator and The Telegraph and wrote for BBC Radio. She lived in Kent, Wimbledon, and Yorkshire. She won numerous literary awards, including the Whitbread Award twice. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.
Books in order of publication:
Children’s books
A Long Way from Verona (1971)
A Few Fair Days (1971)
The Summer After the Funeral (1973)
Bridget and William (1981)
The Hollow Land (1981), received the 1983 Whitbread Children’s Book Award
Horse (1982)
Kit (1983)
Kit in Boots (1986)
Swan (1987)
Through the Doll’s House Door (1987)
Black Woolly Pony (1993)
Tufty Bear (1996)
The Kit Stories (1998)
Short story collections
Black Faces, White Faces (1975), David Higham Prize for Fiction (1975), Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize (1975)
The Sidmouth Letters (1980)
The Pangs of Love and Other Stories (1983), Katherine Mansfield Award for 1984
Showing the Flag and Other Stories (1989)
Trio: Three Stories from Cheltenham (1993)
Going into a Dark House (1994), PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award for 1995
Missing the Midnight (1997)
The Green Man (1998)
The People on Privilege Hill (2007), nominated for the BBC National Short Story Prize
The Stories of Jane Gardam (2014)
Novels
Bilgewater (1977)
God on the Rocks (1978); *Prix Baudelaire (France) (1989): nominated for The Booker Prize Best Novel (1978)
Crusoe’s Daughter (1985)
The Queen of the Tambourine (1991); Whitbread Novel Award (1991)
Faith Fox (1996)
The Flight of the Maidens (2000)
Old Filth (2004)
The Man in the Wooden Hat (2009)
Last Friends (2013), shortlisted for the 2014 Folio Prize
Non-fiction
The Iron Coast (1994)
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