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Beryl Bainbridge


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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".
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   A Weekend with Claude (1967)
   Another Part of the Wood (1968)
   Harriet Said (1973)
   The Secret Glass (1974)
   The Bottle Factory Outing (1974)
   The Dressmaker (1974)
   Sweet William (1975)
   A Quiet Life (1976)
   Injury Time (1977)
   Young Adolf (1978)
   Winter Garden (1980)
   Watson's Apology (1984)
   Filthy lucre (1986)
   Forever England (1987)
   An Awfully Big Adventure (1989)
   The Birthday Boys (1991)
   The Dolphin Connection (1991)
   Something Happened Yesterday (1993)
   Every Man for Himself (1996)
   Master Georgie (1998)
   According to Queeney (1999)
   The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress (2011)
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Collections
   Watson's Apology, Mum and Mr. Armitage (1985)
   Mum and Mr. Armitage (1985)
   Collected stories (1988)
   Ox-Tales:Air (2009) (with others)
   Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season (2022) (with others)
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Anthologies edited
   New Stories (1981)
   Unnatural Causes (1986)
   Northern Short Stories Vol 5 (1994) (with David Pownall)
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Series contributed to
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Beryl Bainbridge recommends
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The Ice King (2022)
(Witch Ways)
Helen Slavin
"A highly original talent."
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Prodigal (2018)
Charles Lambert
"Charles Lambert is a seriously good writer."
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Bones in the Belfry (2008)
(Francis Oughterard, book 2)
Suzette A Hill
"I think this is tremendous."

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Anthologies containing stories by Beryl Bainbridge
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The Book of Liverpool (2008)
A City in Short Fiction
edited by
Maria Crossan and Eleanor Rees

Awards
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1973) : The Dressmaker
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1974) : The Bottle Factory Outing
Whitbread Prize Best Novel winner (1977) : Injury Time
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1990) : An Awfully Big Adventure
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1996) : Every Man for Himself
Guardian Fiction Prize Best Novel winner (1996) : Every Man for Himself
Whitbread Prize Best Novel winner (1996) : Every Man for Himself
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1998) : Master Georgie
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Best Book winner (1998) : Master Georgie


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