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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 Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally naive and withdrawn.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 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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    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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    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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    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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    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 Birthday Boys

    Beryl Bainbridge

    A Bainbridge classic

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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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    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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    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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    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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    According To Queeney

    Beryl Bainbridge

    An evocation of the last years of Dr Johnson. The time is the 1770s and 1780s and Johnson, having completed his life’s major work is running an increasingly chaotic life…

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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

    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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