The Birthday Boys
- 189 pages
- 7 hours of reading
The four men who accompanied Captain Scott on his doomed expedition each tell their own story in this fictional reconstruction of the attempt to reach the South Pole.
Beryl Bainbridge Books
November 21, 1932 – July 2, 2010
This English author is renowned for her psychological fiction, often set among the working classes. Her narratives delve into the intricacies of human nature and social dynamics, skillfully capturing the underlying tensions and emotions within everyday life. She is celebrated for a distinctive literary voice that brings complex characters to life with profound insight.
Sweet William
- 192 pages
- 7 hours of reading
Beryl Bainbridge's classic early novel weaves a dark, clever tale of a young woman in thrall to a golden stranger in 1960s London.
Harriet Said...
- 192 pages
- 7 hours of reading
The classic novel - the first she ever wrote - by acclaimed, Man Booker Prize- winning author Beryl Bainbridge, Harriet Said... is a dark and gripping story of adolescent transgression set in a 1950s seaside resort.
Beryl Bainbridge's classic early novel of English domestic life after the War, A Quiet Life is laced with irony and wicked black humour, and was praised by Hilary Mantel as 'one of the funniest books I have ever read'.
An Awfully Big Adventure
- 193 pages
- 7 hours of reading
This provocative and compelling novel by one of Britian's leading writers tells the darkly humorous tale of Stella, a star-struck, teenaged actress caught in the backstage intrigue of a 1950s Liverpool theater repertory company. Stella romances the director of a production of Peter Pan with consequences that would be uproariously funny if they were not so dire. The play becomes a metaphor for the darker side of youth as Stella is drawn into very adult mayhem.
In 1854, when the battle of Inkerman in the Crimea was over, five survivors were hurriedly assembled in front of the camera. A sixth figure added symmetry to the group - Master Georgie. In the distance a young woman circled round and round like a bird above a robbed nest
Injury Time
- 224 pages
- 8 hours of reading
A gripping thriller based on a real life event (the Balcombe Street siege) schovat popis
Every Man For Himself
- 214 pages
- 8 hours of reading
'Brilliant ... do not miss this novel' DAILY TELEGRAPH * *'A moving, microcosmic portrait of an era's bitter end' THE TIMES
Another Part of the Wood
- 176 pages
- 7 hours of reading
Joseph takes his mistress, son, and friends to a cabin in Wales for the weekend, leading to disastrous outcomes.
"Wartime Liverpool is a place of ration books and jobs in munitions factories. Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally na ve and withdrawn. When she meets Ira, a GI, at a neighbour s party she falls in love almost as much with the idea of life as a GI bride as with the man himself. But Nellie and Margo are not so blind..."--Back cover.
