Showing the Flag

Author(s): Jane Gardam

Short Stories

The flag that is shown, literally and metaphorically, by these characters is always the Union Jack. Gardam's stories are acutely observed social commentaries on Englishness, its weaknesses and its illusions.


Product Information

Jane Gardam is a Whitbread Award Winner and her novel GOD ON THE ROCKS was runner-up for the Booker Prize. She is winner of the David Higham Award and the Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Prize.THE PANGS OF LOVE won the Katherine Mansfield Award.

General Fields

  • : 9780349122540
  • : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
  • : Sphere
  • : 01 July 2009
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Jane Gardam
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 823.914
  • : 192
  • : Modern fiction