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    An Awfully Big Adventure: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, 1990

    Beryl Bainbridge

    *‘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

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    The Bottle Factory Outing (50th Anniversary Edition)

    Beryl Bainbridge

    Beryl Bainbridge at her darkly comic best, reissued as part of Abacus’s 50th anniversary celebrations, with a new Introduction by Amanda Craig

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    Master Georgie: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, 1998

    Beryl Bainbridge

    A novel about one family’s experiences in the Crimean war.

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    Beryl Bainbridge

    Huw Marsh

    This study analyses Bainbridge’s work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies.

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    Beryl Bainbridge

    Huw Marsh

    This study analyses Bainbridge’s work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies.

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    Sweet William

    Beryl Bainbridge

    Beryl Bainbridge’s classic early novel weaves a dark, clever tale of a young woman in thrall to a golden stranger in 1960s London.

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    Another Part of the Wood

    Beryl Bainbridge

    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.

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    Winter Garden

    Beryl Bainbridge

    * An hilarious comedy of adultery. * ‘Razor sharp … Bainbridge takes special pleasure in human unpredictability. She shows that people are hardly ever what they appear’ NEW YORK TIMES…

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    Injury Time

    Beryl Bainbridge

    * A gripping thriller based on a real life event (the Balcombe Street siege)

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    Young Adolf

    Beryl Bainbridge

    A black comedy about Hitler’s time in Liverpool.

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    The Girl In The Polka Dot Dress

    Beryl Bainbridge

    * The new and last Beryl Bainbridge is a double murder mystery and a bittersweet masterpiece of the kind with which she has made her reputation

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    The Birthday Boys

    Beryl Bainbridge

    A Bainbridge classic

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    The Dressmaker: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, 1973

    Beryl Bainbridge

    Wartime Liverpool is a place of ration books and jobs in munitions factories. Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally naive and withdrawn. When she meets…

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    The Girl in the Polka-Dot Dress

    Beryl Bainbridge

    * The new and last Beryl Bainbridge is a double murder mystery and a bittersweet masterpiece of the kind with which she has made her reputation

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    Every Man For Himself: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, 1996

    Beryl Bainbridge

    A novel centred around the sinking of the Titanic, narrated by the young nephew of the owner of the shipping line, which recaptures the four days between the ship’s departure…

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    A Weekend With Claude

    Beryl Bainbridge

    The classic first novel that acclaimed author Beryl Bainbridge ever had published, in 1967, A Weekend with Claude is a wickedly funny portrait of frustrated middle-class lives.

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    Harriet Said…: A Virago Modern Classic

    Beryl Bainbridge

    The classic novel - the first she ever wrote - by acclaimed, Man Booker Prize-winning author Beryl Bainbridge, Harriet Said… is a dark and gripping story of adolescent transgression set…

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    A Quiet Life

    Beryl Bainbridge

    Beryl Bainbridge’s classic early novel of English domestic life after the War, A Quiet Life is laced with irony and wicked black humour, and was praised by Hilary Mantel as…

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    Into the Abyss: The Life of George R.Sims

    W.J. Fishman

    Provides an account of the life and work of the Victorian journalist, George R Sims.

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    You Have to Make Your Own Fun Around Here: Winner of the Beryl Bainbridge First Time Author Award

    Frances Macken

    A captivating, dark portrayal of friendship for fans of My Brilliant Friend

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    You Have to Make Your Own Fun Around Here: Winner of the Beryl Bainbridge First Time Author Award

    Frances Macken

    A captivating, dark portrayal of friendship for fans of My Brilliant Friend

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    You Have to Make Your Own Fun Around Here: Winner of the Beryl Bainbridge First Time Author Award

    Frances Macken

    A captivating, dark portrayal of friendship for fans of My Brilliant Friend

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    Bottle Factory Outing

    Bainbridge Beryl

    (Un)kind explores how the 'be kind' commandment distorts human relationships and works out worst of all for women.

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    You Have to Make Your Own Fun Around Here

    Frances Macken

    Told from Katie’s witty, quirky perspective, Frances Macken’s debut beautifully captures life in a small town and the power of yearning for something bigger.   

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