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Last Friends by Jane Gardam
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Old Filth #3 | Reading Level: very good
Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat told with bristling tenderness and black humour the stories of that Titan of the Hong Kong law courts, Old Filth QC, and his clever, misunderstood wife Betty. Last Friends, the final volume of this trilogy, picks up with Terence Veneering, Filth's great rival in w ...Show more
Old Filth by Jane Gardam
30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Filth, in his heyday, was an international lawyer with a practice in the Far East. Now, only the oldest QCs and Silks 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 tbe fostered a ...Show more
Old Filth - Abacus 40th edition by Jane Gardam
20.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Abacus 40th Anniversary
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 so doing, she not only encapsulates a whole period fro ...Show more
The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam
30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Filth (Failed In London, Try Hong Kong) is a successful lawyer when he marries Elisabeth in Hong Kong soon after the War. Reserved, immaculate and courteous, Filth finds it hard to demonstrate his emotions. But Elisabeth is different - a free spirit. She was brought up in the Japanese Internment Camps, ...Show more
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