Beryl Bainbridge Book order

Beryl Bainbridge's Booker-shortlisted novel, reissued as one of five titles celebrating Abacus's 50th anniversary, with a new introduction by Amanda Craig

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'.

Beryl Bainbridge's classic early novel weaves a dark, clever tale of a young woman in thrall to a golden stranger in 1960s London.

The classic first novel that acclaimed author Beryl Bainbridge ever had published, in 1967, A Weekend with Claude is a wickedly funny portrait of frustrated middle-class lives.

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.

In 1968, during the investigation of Robert Kennedy's assassination, witnesses mentioned a girl in a polka dot dress at the Ambassador Hotel. THE GIRL IN THE POLKA DOT DRESS follows twelve-year-old Rose, who is linked to a dark past involving Dr. Wheeler, as she and Harold search for him across America, culminating at the hotel.

In the rainswept summer of 1968, Rose sets off for the United States from Kentish Town to meet a man she knows as Washington Harold, in her suitcase a polka-dot dress and a one-way ticket. In a country rocked by the assassination of Martin Luther King and a rising groundswell of violence, they are to join forces in search of the charismatic and elusive Dr Wheeler - oracle, guru and redeemer - whom Rose credits with rescuing her from a terrible childhood, and against whom Harold nurses a silent grudge. As they trail their quarry, zigzagging through America in a camper van, the odd couple - Rose, damaged child of grey postwar Britain, and nervous, obsessive, driven Harold - encounter a ragged counter-cultural army of Wheeler's acolytes, eddying among dangerous currents of obscure dissent and rage. But somewhere in the wide American darkness, Dr Wheeler is waiting.

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 Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally na ve and withdrawn.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.

A black comedy about Hitler's time in Liverpool* 'Vintage bittersweet Bainbridge' - MAIL ON SUNDAY schovat popis