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Anna Gavalda
Life, Only Better
Mathilde is an art school dropout. Yann is an unemployed university graduate. When unexpected events disrupt their mundane lives, both throw caution to the wind and decide to change everything. -
Laurent Gaudé
Salina: The Three Exiles
Who will tell the tale of Salina, the mother of three sons, the woman with three exiles, the abandoned child with salty tears? She was taken in by Mamambala and raised as her daughter in a clan that only ever saw her as a stranger and which wanted to defeat her. At the twilight of her life, it... -
Laurent Gaudé
Hear Our Defeats
From the winner of the Prix Goncourt Timely and provocative, Hear Our Defeats is a novel about the battles that define us. The battles lost, won, and those still being fought. A French intelligence officer, Assem, is tasked with tracking down a former member of the U.S. Special... -
Jane Gardam
The Stories of Jane Gardam
This definitive collection, which brings together the best short works from throughout her remarkable career, showcases Gardam’s versatility and imagination as well as her richly developed sense of observation -
Jane Gardam
The Flight of the Maidens
Jane Gardam, author of the Old Filth Trilogy, delivers another modern classic in The Flight of the Maidens. With her characteristic wit, Gardam captures a moment in time for three young women on the cusp of adulthood. With keen perception the novel charts the course of this trio as they boldly... -
Jane Gardam
Bilgewater
Motherless and 16, Marigold is the headmaster's daughter at a private all-boys school, where she hurdles headlong out of her own head and into the seething cauldron of adolescence: impossible crushes, intimidating girls, and a fair share of awkwardness. -
Jane Gardam
The Hollow Land
These stories capture the beauty of the barren Cumbrian countryside, and among its few inhabitants, the lives of two young boys, Bell Teesdale and Harry Bateman. Bell, from a farming family, has been raised in the dialect, hard work, and myth of the fells. His new friend Harry is a tourist whose family... -
Jane Gardam
The Old Filth Trilogy Boxed Set
Told with Jane Gardam’s customary wit, the Old Filth trilogy is a deeply humane and often comic portrait of aging and a reminder that the experiences we choose to take with us in our twilight years are as unforgettable—and unpredictable—as life itself.
