Beryl Bainbridge

• 1968
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Social dysfunction meets dangerous perversion in this black comedy about two misfit families camping in the Welsh woods. George McFarley, a six-foot-eight hulk of a man obsessed with the Holocaust, and his assistant, Balfour, an unbearably shy stu...

• Dec-1973
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If Liverpool in 1944 was grim for Rita and her aunts Nellie and Margo, Rita knew that life in America was gay and rich - she'd seen it in the movies. So when a GI came to call, she was sure that love and escape would follow. But Nellie knew different...

• Nov-1974
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The infamous Parkerâ€"Hulme murder case inspired this frightening tale of adolescent transgression in an English seaside town. When a thirteen-year-old girl returns from boarding school to her small hometown in Merseyside for summer break, her best f...

• Aug-1976
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Short-listed for the Booker Prize and named ''one of the greatest novels of all time'' byThe Observer, this riveting novel which was recently adapted on BBC Radio 4 shows Beryl Bainbridge at her darkly comic best.

Freda and...

• Sep-1976
• / Suspense
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In an English seaside village just after the Second World War, a seemingly ordinary family in a state of claustrophobic tension seethes with the violence that lies beneath so much of the surface of life...

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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After nearly thirty years of marriage, a Victorian clergyman, John Selby Watson, bludgeons his wife to death one Sunday afternoon after church. In this compelling tale by award-winning novelist Beryl Bainbridge, the seemingly ordinary history of thei...

• Nov-1986
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Romantic comedy meets social satire in this delirious novel about sexual freedom versus British tradition in swinging 1960s London. When dull professor Gerald leaves London for the United States, his fiancée, Ann, is a bit afraid and sad to see him ...

• May-1988
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• Feb-1991
• / Action Adventure
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Fifteen-year-old Stella is hired as an assistant stage manager for a theater repertory company's Christmas production of "Peter Pan," and although the director envisions a lighthearted play, Stella brings about an entirely different result...

• Feb-1993
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The dramatic, fictionalized account of Robert Falcon Scott’s famed and fatal expedition to Antarctica by one of Britain’s best-loved authors. Departing from Cardiff in 1910, the Terra Nova entered dark waters and headed south. On board were Pett...

• Sep-1995
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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 an...

• Sep-1997
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Recapturing the four crucial days prior to the sinking of the Titanic and the loss of fifteen hundred lives, this story is told from the perspective of Morgan, the American nephew of the owner of the shipping line, and reveals how his destiny is link...

• Nov-1998
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The highly acclaimed New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 1998 and Booker Prize Nominee that reinvents the historical novel from Beryl Bainbridge, the distinguished author of The Birthday Boys and Every Man For Himself. A misadventure in a brot...

• Jul-2001
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Bainbridge’s brilliantly imagined, universally acclaimed, Booker Prize-longlisted novel portrays the inordinate appetites and unrequited love touched off when the most celebrated man of eighteenth-century English letters, Samuel Johnson, enters the...

• Nov-2008
• / General Fiction
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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 one-way ticket. In an America recently convulsed by the A...

• Nov-2016
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The complete short stories -- including six previously uncollected works and one novella -- of award-winning British literary giant Beryl Bainbridge. From one of the United Kingdom’s most famed female novelists come nineteen different takes on the ...

• Nov-2016
• / Literary
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A group of eccentricfriends makes a mess of their shared holiday in this witty novel from one of Britain’s best-loved authors.

When Claude stumbles upon an old photo, memories of a weekend spent in the company of hi...

• Nov-2016
• / Literary
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A satirical thriller about a British adulterer in Russia from the award-winning author of The Bottle Factory Outing.

Middle-class, middle-aged, and middle-of-the-road lawyer Douglas Ashburner has never been much of a womanizer. So ...