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Bainbridge, Dame Beryl was born on November 21, 1934. Daughter of Richard and Winifred (Baines) Bainbridge.
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Harriet Said...: A Virago Modern Classic (VMC)
(A girl returns from boarding school to her sleepy Merseys...)
A girl returns from boarding school to her sleepy Merseyside hometown and waits to be reunited with her childhood friend, Harriet, chief architect of all their past mischief. She roams listlessly along the shoreline and the woods still pitted with wartime trenches, and encounters 'the Tsar' - almost old, unhappily married, both dangerously fascinating and repulsive. Pretty, malevolent Harriet finally arrives - and over the course of the long holidays draws her friend into a scheme to beguile then humiliate the Tsar, with disastrous, shocking consequences. A gripping portrayal of adolescent transgression, Beryl Bainbridge's classic first novel remains as subversive today as when it was written.
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The Bottle Factory Outing (Bainbridge, Beryl) by Bainbridge, Beryl (1994) Paperback
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Beryl Bainbridge 10 Books Collection Set Pack (The Birthday Boys, Every Man for Himself, Master Georgie , The Bottle Factory Outing, An Awfully Big Adventure, Young Adolf, Injury Time, The Dressmaker, Winter Garden, According to Queeney,)
(This is a ten books collections. Titles in this collectio...)
This is a ten books collections. Titles in this collection are: The Birthday Boys, Every Man for Himself, Master Georgie , The Bottle Factory Outing, An Awfully Big Adventure, Young Adolf, Injury Time, The Dressmaker, Winter Garden, According to Queeney, Beryl Bainbridge is one of the greatest living novelists. Author of seventeen novels, two travel books and five plays for stage and television, she has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, and has won many literary awards including the Whitbread Prize and the Author of the Year Award at the British Book Awards.
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Harriet said Hardcover - 1973
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Young Adolf (Bainbridge, Beryl)
(In this hilarious and ingenious novel set in 1912, Young ...)
In this hilarious and ingenious novel set in 1912, Young Adolf Hitler, age twenty-three, comes to Liverpool, penniless, traveling with false papers, and perpetually stalked by imaginary enemies. His half-brother, Alois, who works as a hotel waiter and a salesman, has convinced him to assist in building a commercial empire based on the newly invented safety razor. Adolf moves in with Alois, his Irish wife, and their infant son and promptly inconveniences them: He is difficult, depressed, lies for days on the sofa, bungles the simplest jobs, and has not yet found himself. In episodes of disarming comedy, at every turn young Adolf becomes involved in ludicrous and embarrassing situations, so much so that he would never, for the rest of his life, mention his laughably awkward visit to England. Taking on one of history's odder incidents with her considerable imagination and wicked sense of humor, Beryl Bainbridge makes Adolf Hitler as absurd a figure in words as Charlie Chaplin made him on film.
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Every Man for Himself
(If ever a subject and a writer were perfectly matched it ...)
If ever a subject and a writer were perfectly matched it is here. The fated voyage of the Titanic, with its heroics and horror, has been dramatized many times before, but never by an artist with the skills and sensibility of Beryl Bainbridge. Bainbridge vividly recreates each scene of the voyage, from the suspicious fire in the Number 10 coal bunker, to the champange and crystal of the first-class public rooms, to that terrible midnight chaos in the frigid North Atlantic. This is remarkable, haunting tale substantiates Bainbridge as a consummate observer of the human condition.
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Master Georgie (Abacus 40th Anniversary)
(When Master Georgie - George Hardy, surgeon and photograp...)
When Master Georgie - George Hardy, surgeon and photographer - sets off from the cold squalor of Victorian Liverpool for the heat and glitter of the Bosphorus to offer his services in the Crimea, there straggles behind him a small caravan of devoted followers; Myrtle, his adoring adoptive sister; lapsed geologist Dr Potter; and photographer's assistant and sometime fire-eater Pompey Jones, all of them driven onwards through a rising tide of death and disease by a shared and mysterious guilt. Combining a breathtaking eye for beauty with a visceral understanding of mortality, Beryl Bainbridge exposes her enigmatic hero as tenderly and unsparingly as she reveals the filth and misery of war, and creates a novel of luminous depth and extraordinary intensity.
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An Awfully Big Adventure: A Novel
(Told with black humour, this is the story of a group of n...)
Told with black humour, this is the story of a group of no-hope rep actors in Liverpool in the mid-50s, doing Peter Pan. Stella, the heroine who is Tinkerbell, is a sad and lonely young woman who repeatedly calls the speaking clock for comfort. This book was shortlisted for The Booker Prize 1990.
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Every Man for Himself (Bainbridge, Beryl)
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Master Georgie (Abacus 40th Anniversary) by Beryl Bainbridge (4-Apr-2013) Paperback
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A Weekend With Claude (VMC) by Beryl Bainbridge (6-Dec-2012) Paperback
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The Bottle Factory Outing (Bainbridge, Beryl) Paperback September 6, 1994
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Master Georgie
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The Bottle Factory Outing Hardcover - 1975
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Sweet William
('People came in and out, chairs were moved, dishes gather...)
'People came in and out, chairs were moved, dishes gathered up on trays, but it was happening at a great distance; she concentrated entirely on his pink face crowned with foppish curls.' Genteel, passive Ann works for the BBC in London and is engaged to a successful academic, fulfilling her snobbish mother's ambitions - more or less - while the Swinging Sixties happen elsewhere, to other people. Then she meets William: snub-nosed and generous, cunning and protean. She is first seduced, then transfixed, as William's past, present and future swirl around her kaleidoscopically, overwhelmingly, and Ann is herself irrevocably, and irreparably, changed.
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Beryl Bainbridge 7 Books Collection Pack Set RRP: 55.93 (Master Georgie, Win...
(Title In This Collection:- Master Georgie Winter Garden...)
Title In This Collection:- Master Georgie Winter Garden The Girl In The Polka Dot Dress A Quiet Life A Weekend With Claude Sweet William Harriet Said... Master Georgie Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge, DBE was an English novelist. Bainbridge won the Whitbread Awards prize for best novel in 1977 and 1996; she was nominated five times for the Booker Prize. She was described in 2007 as "a national treasure". In 2008, The Times newspaper named Bainbridge among their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
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According To Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge (5-Sep-2002) Paperback
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The Birthday Boys
(An imaginative, brilliantly realized evocation of the tho...)
An imaginative, 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 first to reach the South Pole.
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Harriet Said
(Beryl Bainbridge's evocation of childhood in a rundown no...)
Beryl Bainbridge's evocation of childhood in a rundown northern holiday resort.
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Injury Time
(Edward is throwing a dinner party with Binny , his mistre...)
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, for example, or sorting his socks - he wants to give her a chance to feel more involved in his life, to socialise with some of his friends (the discreet ones). Things are a little awkward to begin with - a late start and him having to be away by half past ten - but everything seems to be going well. But then some uninvited, and reather forceful guests arrive, and it doesn't look like Edward is going to make it home on time.
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According to Queeney
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The Bottle Factory Outing
(Freda and Brenda spend their days working in an Italian-r...)
Freda and Brenda spend their days working in an Italian-run wine-bottling factory. A work outing offers promise for Freda and terror from Brenda; passions run high on that chilly day of freedom, and life after the outing never returns to normal. Beryl Bainbridge will dazzle readers in this offbeat, haunting yet hilarious novel.
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A Weekend With Claude
(An old snapshot shows a group of friends lounging in the ...)
An old snapshot shows a group of friends lounging in the sunshine, on a weekend in the country at the invitation of bearded, satyric Claude and his wife Julia. The girl in the centre is dreamy Lily, whose latest failed love affair forms the purpose of the weekend, as Lily's friends set out to help her ensnare an unwitting father for her unborn child. Next to her is Norman, a Marxist romantic hell-bent on seducing his milk-white hostess; behind them is old, persecuted Shebah; and, slightly apart, the young man on whom all hopes are pinned: quiet, pleasant Edward. Told through the fractured narratives of Claude, Lily, Shebah and Norman, in Beryl Bainbridge's first published novel a darkly comic weekend of friendship and failure unravels.
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Every Man for Himself by Bainbridge, Beryl (2012) Paperback
(First Edition)
First Edition
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Another Part of the Wood
(Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape mo...)
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 represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling. Joseph decides to take his mistress and son, together with a few friends, to stay in a cabin in deepest Wales for the weekend - with absolutely disastrous results. Beryl Bainbridge's gift for deadpan dialogue and spare narrative, and her darkly comic vision of the world, are all in evidence in this early novel.
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Forever England: North and South
(History ignores what literature does not: ordinary people...)
History ignores what literature does not: ordinary people, families, jobs, humble expectations, the etiquette of simply being alive. So history may divide England into two nations, the industrial North and the agricultural South, but it fails to examine the social and human roots of that notion -- unlike Beryl Bainbridge in this illuminating chronicle of six representative English families, three in the North and three in the South, which defines not only the geographical borders that divide them but also examines the circumstances of birth, class, economic opportunity, and social custom that confine them.
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Master Georgie: A Novel Hardcover November, 1998
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Dame Beryl Bainbridge
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Student, Merchant Taylor's School, Liverpool. Student, Arts Educational Schools, Tring.
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Master Georgie (Abacus 40th Anniversary)
(When Master Georgie - George Hardy, surgeon and photograp...)
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The Birthday Boys
(An imaginative, brilliantly realized evocation of the tho...)
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Young Adolf (Bainbridge, Beryl)
(In this hilarious and ingenious novel set in 1912, Young ...)
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Sweet William
('People came in and out, chairs were moved, dishes gather...)
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Harriet Said...: A Virago Modern Classic (VMC)
(A girl returns from boarding school to her sleepy Merseys...)
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A Weekend With Claude
(An old snapshot shows a group of friends lounging in the ...)
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Beryl Bainbridge 7 Books Collection Pack Set RRP: 55.93 (Master Georgie, Win...
(Title In This Collection:- Master Georgie Winter Garden...)
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Forever England: North and South
(History ignores what literature does not: ordinary people...)
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An Awfully Big Adventure: A Novel
(Told with black humour, this is the story of a group of n...)
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The Bottle Factory Outing
(Freda and Brenda spend their days working in an Italian-r...)
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Harriet Said
(Beryl Bainbridge's evocation of childhood in a rundown no...)
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Another Part of the Wood
(Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape mo...)
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Every Man for Himself
(If ever a subject and a writer were perfectly matched it ...)
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Injury Time
(Edward is throwing a dinner party with Binny , his mistre...)
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Beryl Bainbridge 10 Books Collection Set Pack (The Birthday Boys, Every Man for Himself, Master Georgie , The Bottle Factory Outing, An Awfully Big Adventure, Young Adolf, Injury Time, The Dressmaker, Winter Garden, According to Queeney,)
(This is a ten books collections. Titles in this collectio...)
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Every Man for Himself by Bainbridge, Beryl (2012) Paperback
(First Edition)
- The Bottle Factory Outing (Bainbridge, Beryl) by Bainbridge, Beryl (1994) Paperback
- Harriet said Hardcover - 1973
- Every Man for Himself (Bainbridge, Beryl)
- Master Georgie (Abacus 40th Anniversary) by Beryl Bainbridge (4-Apr-2013) Paperback
- A Weekend With Claude (VMC) by Beryl Bainbridge (6-Dec-2012) Paperback
- The Bottle Factory Outing (Bainbridge, Beryl) Paperback September 6, 1994
- Master Georgie
- The Bottle Factory Outing Hardcover - 1975
- According To Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge (5-Sep-2002) Paperback
- According to Queeney
- Master Georgie: A Novel Hardcover November, 1998
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Master Georgie (Abacus 40th Anniversary)
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Married Austin Davies, 1954 (divorced). 3 children.
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