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1	The Birthday Boys more books like this by Beryl Bainbridge add to wishlist Set during the early part of the century, a novel about five men who, over a period of three years, celebrate their birthdays together in a variety of unusual locations. From the author of AN AWFULLY BIG ADVENTURE. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	According to Queeney more books like this by Beryl Bainbridge add to wishlist Samuel Johnson is the star of Beryl Bainbridge's novel, but his tale is told by a girl named Queeney, the oldest daughter of Mrs. Thrale, Johnson's wealthy friend (and the woman he unrequitedly loves) whose country house, Streatham Park, he sometimes shared. ACCORDING TO QUEENEY was shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize and was a New York Times ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Bottle Factory Outing more books like this by Beryl Bainbridge add to wishlist Freda and Brenda spend their days working in an Italian-run wine- bottling factory. A work outing offers promise for Freda, and terror for Brenda, passions run high on that chilly day of freedom, and life after the outing never returns to normal. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Awfully big adventure more books like this by Beryl Bainbridge add to wishlist Stella, star-struck teenage actress becomes involved in the backstage intrigues of a Liverpool repertory company. Her crush on the director of a production of "Peter Pan" has consequences she didn't dream of. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Injury time more books like this by Beryl Bainbridge add to wishlist Edward promised his wife he wouldn`t be late home. He was supposed to be discussing business with a client. Binny had reassured him that no-one would ever know he was having dinner at her house. The author also wrote "Harriet Salad", "The Dressmaker" and she is the winner of the Whitbread Prize. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.35! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Young Adolf more books like this by Beryl Bainbridge add to wishlist This novel is inspired by the notion that in 1912 Hitler came to stay with the family of his Irish half-sister-in-law, living off them for five months before overcoming his inertia to return to Austria. The author won awards for "The Bottle Factory Outing", "A Quiet Life" and "Injury Time". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Master Georgie more books like this by Beryl Bainbridge add to wishlist George Hardy is a successful Liverpool surgeon and an amateur photographer. He is also, secretly, an alcoholic and a homosexual. The facts of his life are narrated by the people in his life: Myrtle, an orphan girl who devotes her life to him, even surreptitiously bearing his children (his wife is barren); his brother-in-law Dr. Potter, a geologist ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Something Happened Yesterday more books like this by Beryl Bainbridge (Illustrator) add to wishlist Like Alan Bennett's Writing Home, this collection of Bainbridge's personal essays presents a pleasantly idiosyncratic blend of subtle observations on contemporary England and personal memories of its past. For six years during the late eighties and early nineties, Bainbridge often began her column with "Something happened yesterday..".. This ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.40! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Forever England: North and South more books like this by Beryl Bainbridge add to wishlist History ignores what literature does not: ordinary people, families, jobs, humble expectations, the etiquette of simply being alive. So history may divide England into two nations, the industrial North and the agricultural South, but it fails to examine the social and human roots of that notion -- unlike Beryl Bainbridge in this illuminating ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.92! \| first editions
10	Front Row: Evenings at the Theatre more books like this by Beryl Bainbridge add to wishlist With an outstanding introductory essay, one of the greatest living English novelists has assembled her writings, essays and reviews about the theatre to provide a highly individual view of contemporary theatre and actors. The incredible range of Beryl Bainbridge's talents is known to her most fervent admirers. As well as being one of Britain's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.96! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Every Man for Himself more books like this by Beryl Bainbridge add to wishlist Shortlisted for the Booker Prize For the four fraught, mysterious days of her doomed maiden voyage in 1912, the Titanic sails towards New York, glittering with luxury, freighted with millionaires and hopefuls. In her labyrinthine passageways are played out the last, secret hours of a small group of passengers, their fate sealed in prose of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12	Mum and Mr. Armitage: Selected Stories of Beryl Bainbridge more books like this by Beryl Bainbridge add to wishlist This collection of Bainbridge's short fiction dates from 1986. see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
13	The Secret Glass more books like this by Bainbridge add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
14 view cover	Front Row: Evenings at the Theatre: Pieces from the Oldie more books like this by Beryl Bainbridge add to wishlist Best known as an acclaimed novelist, Beryl Bainbridge is also a former actor. Expelled from school in Liverpool at the age of fourteen, she determined to tread the boards, joining the Liverpool Playhouse Theatre Company as an assistant stage manager. Here she received a unique form of education, reading Shakespeare and Ibsen, and eventually ... see all copies from $7.91! new only from $15.53!
15	Filthy lucre, or, The tragedy of Ernest Ledwhistle and Richard Soleway : a story more books like this by Beryl Bainbridge add to wishlist see all copies from $6.00! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16	Mum and Mr Armitage : and other stories by Beryl Bainbridge add to wishlist see all copies from $2.53! first editions
17 view cover	Winter garden more books like this by Beryl Bainbridge add to wishlist Ashburner's wife had been sporting about his need for a rest, packing him off on a holiday to Scotland. But in the taxi he changed his luggage labels and checked in for a flight to Moscow. He was the official companion to the artist Nina St Clair - but within 48 hours Nina had vanished. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.21! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Watson's Apology more books like this by Beryl Bainbridge add to wishlist In October 1871 a clergyman bludgeoned his wife to death. The circumstances of this tragedy led the author to speculate upon its causes. Delving into Home Office files and tracing the history of the relationship through letters and newspapers, she fills in the gaps with a novelist's imagination. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	A quiet life more books like this by Beryl Bainbridge add to wishlist Alan, a schoolboy living in a seaside village after the war, is concerned about the behaviour of his sister Madge. She has been seen talking to a German prisoner on the beach. Gradually her nightly disappearances affect the whole household. The parents become bitterly estranged, the wireless is turned up full volume so the neighbours won't hear ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.39! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	English Journey, Or, the Road to Milton Keynes more books like this by Beryl Bainbridge add to wishlist Beryl Bainbridge retraces the steps of J. B. Priestly that he chronicled in his Depression-era book, ENGLISH JOURNEY. Fifty years later, Bainbridge finds both differences and similarities. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Collected stories by Beryl Bainbridge add to wishlist Originally published in 1985, this collection of short stories now contains three more short stories and a novella, "Filthy Lucre". Beryl Bainbridge is the author "An Awfully Big Adventure", "Another Part of the Wood", "Harriet Said", "Birthday Boys" and "Bottle Factory Outing". see all copies from $2.62!
22 view cover	Dressmaker more books like this by Beryl Bainbridge add to wishlist 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 - the boy would have to go. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Harriet Said more books like this by Beryl Bainbridge add to wishlist Two schoolgirls spend their holidays in a rundown Northern resort. The younger one develops a morbid interest in an unhappily married, middle-aged man. She and her friend Harriet begin a plot to humiliate him. But their fantasy merges into reality, with shocking and unexpected results. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24	According to Queeny by Beryl Bainbridge add to wishlist see all copies from $8.96!
25	Colin Haycraft, 1929-1994: Maverick Publisher more books like this by Beryl Bainbridge add to wishlist Colin Haycraft, Chairman of Duckworth for nearly 25 years, and one of the country's last great independent publishers, died in September 1994. This volume of essays, written by a group of friends old and new, is an informal portrait of this man. Contributors include Beryl Bainbridge, Oliver Sacks, Francis King, Richard Gregory, Brian McGuinness, ... see all copies from $26.98! new only from $42.71! \| first editions

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