Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge DBE (21 November 1932 – 2 July 2010) was an English writer. She was primarily known for her works of psychological fiction...
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adapted from the Booker Prize-nominated 1989 novel of the same name by Beryl Bainbridge. In the film's prologue, a hotelier ushers someone into a bomb shelter...
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nominations: 7 nominations Salman Rushdie 6 nominations Margaret Atwood Beryl Bainbridge J. M. Coetzee Ian McEwan Iris Murdoch 5 nominations Sebastian Barry...
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The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress (category Novels by Beryl Bainbridge)
the last novel by writer Beryl Bainbridge published in 2011 following her death. As explained in the postscript: Beryl Bainbridge was in the process of finishing...
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Beryl Bainbridge, novelist Beryl Baxter (née M. Ivory), actress Beryl Beaurepaire, feminist Beryl Bernay, journalist, painter, and photographer Beryl...
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Postlethwaite. It is an adaptation of the 1973 novel The Dressmaker by Beryl Bainbridge. Set during the Second World War in England, the story concerns a claustrophobic...
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24 March 1965) is an English actress, the daughter of writer Dame Beryl Bainbridge (1932–2010). Davies began her acting career as Penny Lewis in the BBC...
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psychological novel written by Beryl Bainbridge. In 1973, it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Like many of Bainbridge's earlier works, the novel is...
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Young Adolf (category Novels by Beryl Bainbridge)
Young Adolf is a novel written by author Beryl Bainbridge, and first published in 1978 by Duckworth. Presented as biographical fiction, the book's main...
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An Awfully Big Adventure (novel) (category Novels by Beryl Bainbridge)
written by Beryl Bainbridge. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1990 and adapted as a movie in 1995. The story was inspired by Bainbridge's own experiences...
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explored deaths in unusual circumstances. The series writers included Beryl Bainbridge, Nigel Kneale and Lynda La Plante. This programme was produced by Central...
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of Beryl Bainbridge's books and love affairs". Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved 9 September 2021. Davies, Jojo (12 December 2010). "The Beryl Bainbridge...
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and Melvyn Bragg. It is based on the 1975 novel of the same title by Beryl Bainbridge. Sam Waterston - William McClusky Jenny Agutter - Ann Walton Anna Massey...
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later married former actress Rudi Davies, whose mother was novelist Beryl Bainbridge. admin (15 July 2009). "British Cinema – Scum (1979)". Flickering Myth...
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Road, Camden Town, now known as Ambedkar House, in 1921 and 1922. Beryl Bainbridge lived in Albert Street from the 1960s until her death in 2010. Playwright...
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Master Georgie (category Novels by Beryl Bainbridge)
Master Georgie is a 1998 historical novel by English novelist Beryl Bainbridge. It deals with the British experience of the Crimean War through the adventures...
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Every Man for Himself (novel) (category Novels by Beryl Bainbridge)
Every Man for Himself is a 1996 novel by Beryl Bainbridge about the 1912 RMS Titanic disaster. The novel won the 1996 Whitbread Prize, and was a nominee...
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Bainbridge is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Beryl Bainbridge (1932–2010), English novelist Beverley Bainbridge...
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also had a relationship with the novelist Beryl Bainbridge, with whom he had a daughter, Ruth. Bainbridge later said, "He showed up for Rudi's birth...
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Harriet Said... (category Novels by Beryl Bainbridge)
Harriet Said... was the first novel written by Beryl Bainbridge, based on newspaper reports about the Parker–Hulme murder case in New Zealand which involved...
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was responsible for publishing "Duckworth's best-selling author", Beryl Bainbridge. The company moved from Henrietta Street to The Old Piano Factory in...
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a lifetime to write, one can only feel gratitude that he did it." Beryl Bainbridge, Richard Adams, Ronald Harwood, and John Bayley also spoke positively...
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The Birthday Boys (category Novels by Beryl Bainbridge)
The Birthday Boys is a novel by Beryl Bainbridge. First published in 1991, this book tells the story of Captain Robert Scott's 1910-13 expedition to Antarctica...
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Lively A Stitch in Time — Winifred Gerin Elizabeth Gaskell — 1977 Beryl Bainbridge Injury Time — Shelagh Macdonald No End to Yesterday — Nigel Nicolson...
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The Bottle Factory Outing (category Novels by Beryl Bainbridge)
The Bottle Factory Outing is a 1974 novel by English writer Beryl Bainbridge. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize that year, won the Guardian Fiction...
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winners". In 2006, the Man Booker Prize set up a "Best of Beryl" prize, for the author Beryl Bainbridge, who had been nominated five times and yet failed to...
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dirt and drunkenness and disease." In a 1983 book of the same title, Beryl Bainbridge retraces Priestley's steps to capture the changes that half a century...
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in diary form, and tells the story of a man in the grip of alcohol. Beryl Bainbridge called it "both shocking and original". Fallada wrote the manuscript...
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'Horse slaughterer to Queen Victoria' Edward Hodges Baily, sculptor Beryl Bainbridge, author Abraham Dee Bartlett, zoologist, superintendent of the London...
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Heavy Water and Other Stories (most stories previously published) Beryl Bainbridge – Master Georgie Iain M. Banks – Inversions Alessandro Barbero – Romanzo...
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