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The Novels of Beryl Bainbridge Volume One: An Awfully Big Adventure, The Birthday Boys, and Master Georgie
by Beryl Bainbridge
Three unforgettable novels from the “subversive and ever-mischievous imagination” of a celebrated British author and five-time Man Booker Prize nominee (The New York Times). With crisp prose and sardonic wit, Dame Beryl Bainbridge established a unique position for herself in the landscape of modern British literature. In the three...
Named by the Observer as “one of the 100 greatest novels of all time,” this dark comedy with a disturbing twist follows two working-class women in 1970s London. Unlikely friends Brenda and Freda share a rundown room in London and toil away at an Italian factory pasting labels onto wine bottles. Brenda, a shy and passive...
A Weekend with Claude: A Novel (Virago Modern Classics Book 37)
by Beryl Bainbridge
A group of eccentric friends 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 his friends come back in full force. In the snapshot are Lily, a thick-ankled girl who is unlucky in love; Edward, the...
Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Sex & Erotica
Young Adolf: A Novel (Bainbridge, Beryl)
by Beryl Bainbridge
A darkly humorous fictionalized account of Adolf Hitler’s alleged stay in England as a young man. Before becoming the Führer of the Third Reich, it is said Adolf Hitler was a failed artist who bummed around at his half-brother’s house in Liverpool from 1912 to 1913. Based on the memoir of the future despot’s sister-in-law, Bridget...
Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Historical Fiction; All Science Fiction
Harriet Said: A Novel
by Beryl Bainbridge
The infamous Parker–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 friend, Harriet, is not back yet, and she’s restless, anxious for something—...
Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Women's Fiction
Sweet William: A Novel
by Beryl Bainbridge
R omantic 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 go—never has he looked so handsome and masculine as when he’s about to board the...
Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Women's Fiction
The Dressmaker: A Novel
by Beryl Bainbridge
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: This psychological drama set in Liverpool during WWII follows the courtship of a US soldier and an English working-class girl. Rita is a passive and naïve seventeen-year-old who has been raised by two middle-aged aunts: Nellie, a curmudgeonly dressmaker obsessed with polishing the furniture, and...
Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Historical Fiction; All Teen Lit
The Novels of Beryl Bainbridge Volume Two: The Dressmaker, The Bottle Factory Outing, and Injury Time
by Beryl Bainbridge
Three darkly comic novels from the two-time Whitbread Award winner whose “masterful restraint . . . reveals an author in complete control of her artistry” ( The Guardian ). With taut prose and mordant wit, Dame Beryl Bainbridge established a unique position for herself as “one of the most distinctive and admired voices in postwar...
The tragicomic tale of a dysfunctional middle-class family in postwar England from the award-winning author of Injury Time. Though the Second World War has ended, times are anything but peaceful for seventeen-year-old Alan. His father, an entrepreneur who was once able to provide the family with a comfortable life, is now struggling to...
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 when he tells his wife he’s going on a fishing holiday, she takes his word for it. But instead of leaving...
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