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Jane Gardam Books in Order

Jane Gardam has written 35 books, published between 1971 and 2014. The first book is A Few Fair Days (1971) and the newest is The Stories of Jane Gardam (2014). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
35
Published
1971–2014
Pages on record
5,090 in 30 of 35 books
Reading time
85–127 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 5,090 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 30 of 35 titles with a page count on record.

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Jane Gardam wrote for children and for adults and worked as a literary critic, with reviews in The Spectator and The Telegraph and writing for BBC Radio. Gardam took the Whitbread Award twice, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2005 and appointed OBE in the 2009 New Year Honours. Thirty-five books are catalogued between A Few Fair Days (1971) and The Stories of Jane Gardam (2014), with Old Filth the one series listed. England, family life, adolescence and girls recur as subjects.

How many Jane Gardam books are there?

Jane Gardam has 35 books, released between 1971 and 2014. 3 of them belong to the Old Filth series.

Jane Gardam Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 35 Jane Gardam books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of A Long Way from Verona by Jane Gardam (1971)
  2. Cover of Black Faces, White Faces by Jane Gardam (1975)
  3. Cover of Bilgewater by Jane Gardam (1976)
  4. Cover of The Pineapple Bay Hotel by Jane Gardam (1976)
  5. Cover of God on the Rocks by Jane Gardam (1978)
  6. Cover of The Sidmouth Letters by Jane Gardam (1980)
  7. Cover of The Hollow Land by Jane Gardam (1981)
  8. Cover of The Pangs of Love and Other Stories by Jane Gardam (1983)
  9. Cover of Crusoe's Daughter by Jane Gardam (1985)
  10. Cover of Swan by Jane Gardam (1987)
  11. Cover of Showing the Flag by Jane Gardam (1989)
  12. Cover of The Queen of the Tambourine by Jane Gardam (1991)
  13. Cover of Black Woolly Pony by Jane Gardam (1993)
  14. Cover of Going Into a Dark House by Jane Gardam (1994)
  15. Cover of Faith Fox by Jane Gardam (1996)
  16. Cover of Missing the Midnight by Jane Gardam (1997)
  17. Cover of The Kit Stories by Jane Gardam (1998)
  18. Cover of The Green Man by Jane Gardam (1998)
  19. Cover of The Flight of the Maidens by Jane Gardam (2000)
  20. Cover of Old Filth by Jane Gardam, book 1 of the Old Filth series (2004)
  21. Cover of The People on Privilege Hill and Other Stories by Jane Gardam (2007)
  22. Cover of The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam, book 2 of the Old Filth series (2009)
  23. Cover of The Stories by Jane Gardam (2012)
  24. Cover of Last Friends by Jane Gardam, book 3 of the Old Filth series (2013)
  1. 1
    A Few Fair Days1971 · 119 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1971119
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  2. 2
    A Long Way from Verona1971 · 211 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1971211
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  3. 3
    The Summer After the Funeral1973 · 179 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1973179
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  4. 4
    Black Faces, White Faces1975 · 117 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1975117
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  5. 5
    Bilgewater1976 · 227 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1976227
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  6. 6
    The Pineapple Bay Hotel1976 · 133 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1976133
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  7. 7
    God on the Rocks1978 · confirmed 1/4
    1978–
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  8. 8
    The Sidmouth Letters1980 · 148 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1980148
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  9. 9
    The Hollow Land1981 · 158 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1981158
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  10. 10
    Bridget And William1981 · 48 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198148
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  11. 11
    Horse1982 · 46 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198246
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  12. 13
    Kit1983 · 42 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198342
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  13. 14
    Crusoe's Daughter1985 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1985224
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  14. 15
    Kit; Kit in Boots1986 · confirmed 1/4
    1986–
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  15. 16
    Swan1987 · 64 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198764
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  16. 17
    Through the Doll's House Door1987 · confirmed 1/4
    1987–
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  17. 18
    Showing the Flag1989 · 172 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1989172
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  18. 19
    The Queen of the Tambourine1991 · 260 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1991260
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  19. 20
    Trio1993 · 96 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199396
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  20. 21
    Black Woolly Pony1993 · 96 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199396
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  21. 22
    Going Into a Dark House1994 · 183 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1994183
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  22. 23
    Iron Coast1995 · confirmed 1/4
    1995–
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  23. 24
    Tufty Bear1996 · 63 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199663
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  24. 25
    Faith Fox1996 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1996320
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  25. 26
    Missing the Midnight1997 · 192 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1997192
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  26. 27
    The Kit Stories1998 · 111 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1998111
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  27. 28
    The Green Man1998 · 48 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199848
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  28. 29
    The Flight of the Maidens2000 · 278 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2000278
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  29. 30
    Old FilthOld Filth #12004 · 289 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004289
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  30. 32
    The Man in the Wooden HatOld Filth #22009 · 233 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2009233
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  31. 33
    The Stories2012 · confirmed 1/4
    2012–
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  32. 34
    Last FriendsOld Filth #32013 · 205 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013205
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  33. 35
    The Stories of Jane Gardam2014 · 476 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014476
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Jane Gardam books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Old Filth in order

3 books
  1. 1. Old Filth
  2. 2. The Man in the Wooden Hat
  3. 3. Last Friends

Standalone books

32 books

32 Jane Gardam titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Jane Gardam books in order?

You only need to read Jane Gardam books in order within the Old Filth series, which holds 3 of the 35 Jane Gardam books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Jane Gardam

Start with A Few Fair Days (1971), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Jane Gardam book?

The Stories of Jane Gardam (2014) is the newest Jane Gardam book released so far.

Is there a new Jane Gardam book coming?

No next Jane Gardam book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Awards Jane Gardam has won

Wikidata records 2 awards and 1 nomination for Jane Gardam. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

Jane Gardam at a glance

Died
Jane Gardam died in 2025, according to Wikidata.
Last book
The newest book credited to Jane Gardam on record dates from 2014.
Release pace
Jane Gardam books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
5,090 pages across the 30 of 35 books with a recorded length, a median of 165 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Jane Gardam books, 11 of 35, were published in the 1980s.

What the Jane Gardam books are about

30 of the 35 Jane Gardam books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: children's fiction is tagged on 9 of 30. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.