Beryl Bainbridge was the author of seventeen novels.
The Dressmaker,
The Bottle Factory Outing,
An Awfully Big Adventure,
Every Man For Himself and
Master Georgie were all finalists for the Booker Prize, and
Every Man For Himself won the Whitbread Novel of the Year Prize. The Guardian includes
The Bottle Factory Outing on their list of the 100 Greatest Novels of All Time.
An Awfully Big Adventure was adapted for a film starring Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman.
Beryl Bainbridge died in July 2010.
20 Ebooks by Beryl Bainbridge
Beryl Bainbridge: The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress
In the tumultuous spring of 1968 a young English woman, Rose, travels from London to the United States to meet a man she knows as Washington Harold. In her suitcase are a polka dot dress and a …
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Beryl Bainbridge: Every Man For Himself
WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD PRIZE FOR FICTION 1996WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH WRITERS’ PRIZE 1997’A narrative both sparkling and deep . . . the cost of raising [the Titanic] is prohibitive; Bainbridge …
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Beryl Bainbridge: Master Georgie
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 1998SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FICTION PRIZEWINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE WH SMITH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDWhen Master Georgie – …
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Beryl Bainbridge: According To Queeney
‘A stellar literary event . . . written with panache and an enviable economy . . . the biggest risk of her literary life’ Margaret Atwood According to Queeney is a masterly evocation of the last …
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Beryl Bainbridge: Birthday Boys
A brilliantly realized evocation of the thoughts and voices of Captain Scott and the four men with him, who suffered extraordinary hardships before finally dying during their 1912 attempt to be the …
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Beryl Bainbridge: Awfully Big Adventure
‘This is one of Bainbridge’s best books. The close observation and hilarity are underlain by a sense of tragedy as deep as any in fiction’ The Times SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE IN 1990It is 1950 …
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Beryl Bainbridge: Young Adolf
Paranoid, wilful, lazy, the young Adolf Hitler turns up in Liverpool to stay with his brother Alois and sister-in-law Bridget. Hailed by Alois as a student and an artist, Adolf soon irritates his …
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Beryl Bainbridge: Injury Time
Edward is throwing a dinner party with Binny , his mistress. Aware that she has long been denied those small intimacies that his wife takes for granted – choosing a birthday present for his sister, …
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Beryl Bainbridge: Winter Garden
Quiet and reliable, Douglas Ashburner has never been much of a womaniser. So when he begins an extra-marital affair with Nina, a bossy, temperamental artist with a penchant for risky sex, he finds …
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Beryl Bainbridge: Dressmaker
‘The book I wish I’d written . . . Witty, chilling, every word in place’ Hilary Mantel, Guardian Wartime Liverpool is a place of ration books and jobs in munitions factories. Rita, living with her …
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Beryl Bainbridge: Bottle Factory Outing
Short-listed for the Booker Prize and named ‘one of the greatest novels of all time’ by The Observer, this riveting novel shows Beryl Bainbridge at her darkly comic best. Freda and Brenda spend their …
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Beryl Bainbridge: Girl In The Polka Dot Dress
In the summer of 1968, Rose sets off for the United States from Kentish Town; in her suitcase a polka-dot dress and a one-way ticket. Together with the sinister man known only as Washington Harold, …
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Beryl Bainbridge: Weekend With Claude
‘Extremely lively’ TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT’A work of art’ SCOTSMAN’Genius’ SUNDAY TIMESAn old snapshot shows a group of friends lounging in the sunshine, on a weekend in the country at the …
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Beryl Bainbridge: Sweet William
‘Cunningly clever, wry, dry, sharply pointed’ EVENING STANDARD’Alarming humour and a powerful talent’ DAILY TELEGRAPH’Bainbridge is brilliant at combining established fact and compelling fiction’ …
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Beryl Bainbridge: Quiet Life
‘The underrated A Quiet Life is one of the funniest books I have ever read’ HILARY MANTEL ‘One of the best novelists of her generation’ GUARDIAN Seventeen-year-old Alan can’t stand rows. But, though …
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Beryl Bainbridge: Harriet Said…
‘Harriet Said is a highly plotted horror tale that turns the "Obstinate Questionings" of puberty into deadly weapons’ NEW YORK TIMES ‘An extremely original and disconcerting story’ DAILY …
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Beryl Bainbridge: Another Part of the Wood
Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All repr …
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Beryl Bainbridge: La excursión
Freda y Brenda pasan sus días trabajando en una fábrica embotelladora de vino dirigida por unos italianos, Vittorio y Rossi, y comparten las noches en un deprimente estudio. No es sorprendente, pues, …
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Beryl Bainbridge: La chica del vestido de topos
Una comedia negra y perversa
En el lluvioso verano de 1968, Rose viaja desde Londres a Estados Unidos para reunirse con un hombre que conoce como Washington Harold. En su maleta lleva un vestido de …
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Dinesh Allirajah & Beryl Bainbridge: Book of Liverpool
Bringing together fiction from some of the city’s most celebrated writers, The Book of Liverpool traces the unique contours that decades of social and economic change can impress on a city. Set …
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