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Nina Bawden


(Nina Mary Mabey Bawden)
UK flag (1925 - 2012)

Nina Bawden CBE (born January 19, 1925, London) was a popular British novelist and children's writer. Her mother was a teacher and her father a marine. Bawden attended Somerville College, Oxford, where she gained a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
 


Genres: Children's Fiction
 
Series
Plato Jones
   1. The Real Plato Jones (1993)
   2. The Outside Child (1989)
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Novels
   Eyes of Green (1953)
   Who Calls the Tune (1953)
   The Odd Flamingo (1954)
   Change Here for Babylon (1955)
   The Solitary Child (1956)
   Devil by the Sea (1957)
   Glass Slippers Always Pinch (1960)
   Just Like a Lady (1960)
   In Honour Bound (1961)
   The Secret Passage (1963)
   Tortoise by Candlelight (1963)
   On the Run (1964)
     aka Three on the Run
   Under the Skin (1964)
   A Little Love a Little Learning (1966)
   The White Horse Gang (1966)
   The Witch's Daughter (1966)
   A Handful of Thieves (1967)
   A Woman of My Age (1967)
   A Grain of Truth (1968)
   The Runaway Summer (1969)
   Squib (1971)
   The Birds on the Trees (1972)
   Anna Apparent (1972)
   Carrie's War (1973)
   George Beneath a Paper Moon (1974)
   The Peppermint Pig (1975)
   Afternoon of a Good Woman (1976)
   Rebel on a Rock (1978)
   Familiar Passions (1979)
   The Robbers (1979)
   William Tell (1981)
   Walking Naked (1981)
   Kept in the Dark (1982)
   The Ice House (1983)
   The Finding (1985)
   On the Edge (1985)
   Princess Alice (1985)
   Circles of Deceit (1987)
   Henry (1988)
   Keeping Henry (1988)
   Family Money (1991)
   Humbug (1992)
   The House of Secrets (1992)
   Granny the Pag (1995)
   Welcome to Tangier (1996)
   A Nice Change (1997)
   Off the Road (1998)
   Ruffian on the Stair (2001)
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Picture Books show
 
Non fiction show
 
Books containing stories by Nina Bawden
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Sightlines (2001)
edited by
P D James and Harriet Harvey Wood

Award nominations
1987 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Circles of Deceit


Nina Bawden recommends
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Someone at a Distance (1953)
Dorothy Whipple
"It makes compulsive reading."

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