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Bainbridge, Beryl 1932-2010

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Works: 98 works in 473 publications in 15 languages and 25,899 library holdings
Genres: Historical fiction  Biographical fiction  War stories  Domestic fiction  Sea stories  Historical fiction, English  Adventure fiction  Love stories  Legal stories  Detective and mystery stories 
Classifications: pr6052.a3195, 823.914
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26 editions published between and 2008 in 5 languages and held by 1,499 libraries worldwide
A novel on the 1854 Crimean War featuring a homosexual surgeon who volunteers to prove his manhood. He is George Hardy of Liverpool and he is accompanied by an assistant, a maid who bore the children which his barren wife claims. By the author of Every Man for Himself.
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28 editions published between and 2008 in 4 languages and held by 1,451 libraries worldwide
The sinking of the Titanic featuring Morgan, an American playboy who is the nephew of the ship's owner. After days of boozing and wenching, Morgan gets the opportunity to prove that he can also be a hero. By the author of The Birthday Boys.
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22 editions published between and 2009 in English and held by 1,363 libraries worldwide
A fictionalized account of Captain Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole in 1912, told from several points of view, Scott's as well as that of his men. The London Evening Standard called it "a daring leap of emphatic imagination."
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21 editions published between and 2003 in English and French and held by 1,284 libraries worldwide
Samuel Johnson, the literary giant of mid-eighteenth century London, becomes part of the chaotic household of wealthy brewer Henry Thrale.
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26 editions published between and 2010 in English and French and held by 1,105 libraries worldwide
"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."
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20 editions published between and 2008 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,084 libraries worldwide
The mother escapes the shabby English seaside house by reading novels in the railroad station at night while her husband weeps by the radio. The daughter sneaks out to meet her German P.O.W. lover, and the son "suffers the family he can neither alter or ignore, at least not until it has been destroyed."--Cover.
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19 editions published between and 2001 in English and held by 1,006 libraries worldwide
Strange circumstances of the Stockwell Tragedy have led Beryl Bainbridge to speculate upon its causes. The bare bones of the case emerge from letters, newspapers, and home office files, but it is the novelist's imagination that fills in the gaps to present a horrific, if somewhat comic, portrait of a marriage.
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25 editions published between and 2010 in English and Hungarian and held by 994 libraries worldwide
Naive Rita is living with her Aunts Nellie and Margo in wartime Liverpool. Her innocence ends when she falls in love with a sullen, insensitive American soldier.
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21 editions published between and 2005 in English and Undetermined and held by 989 libraries worldwide
A story based on a journal entry of Adolph Hitler.
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30 editions published between and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 951 libraries worldwide
It is 1950 in Liverpool, and Stella, just fifteen-years-old, is hired as an assistant stage manager for a repertory theatre company's production of Peter Pan. Meredith, the director, and O'Hara, who plays Captain Hook, envision a lighthearted play unburdened by symbolism, but the innocent Stella begins to create an entirely different drama.
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20 editions published between and 2009 in English and Undetermined and held by 947 libraries worldwide
Edward is throwing a dinner party with his mistress. Aware that she has long been denied those small intimacies that his wife takes for granted. Things seem to be going well but then some uninvited guests arrive and Edward is going to be late home.
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13 editions published between and 2003 in English and held by 907 libraries worldwide
Douglas Ashburner had never been a womanizer, if his wife had murmured a single reproach he would immediately have made a clean breast of things. Instead, her reaction to his sudden need for a lone fishing holiday in the Highlands seemed positively encouraging.So it is that Ashburner finds himself changing luggage labels in the taxi to Heathrow and checking in with his companions on the flight to Moscow.
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22 editions published between and 2004 in English and French and held by 814 libraries worldwide
Londres, dans les années 70. Anne est fiancée à un jeune homme qui part travailler aux États-Unis. Elle rencontre William, un écrivain dont elle tombe amoureuse. Enceinte, elle découvrira que non seulement William est marié et père de famille mais qu'il entretient également d'autres maîtresses...
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23 editions published between and 2005 in English and Spanish and held by 776 libraries worldwide
"At thirteen there is very little you can expect to salvage from loving someone. No one will let you love yet. You're not expected to. But in the holidays, Harriet's plump dreamy girlfriend develops a morbid interest in an unhappily married, middle aged man. The two schoolgirls, lost in their own little fantasy world, begin a plot to humikiate 'the Tsar'. But in their secret schemes and artful ways, fantasy merges into reality with disturbing and unexpected results." -- Back cover.
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5 editions published between and 1987 in English and held by 637 libraries worldwide
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7 editions published between and 1994 in English and held by 630 libraries worldwide
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21 editions published between and 2010 in English and held by 562 libraries worldwide
In the remote cottage in Wales, two urban couples are spending their holiday with an idealistic owner and his protege. At the beginning everything is idyllic-- the mixed group of adults and children wrangling at each other, exploring the woods, and trying to keep amused or at least warm. But catastrophe lurks behind every tree-- Joseph's joy with his young son Roland is balanced by arguments with his girlfriend Dotty and other misfits.
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20 editions published between and 1997 in English and held by 547 libraries worldwide
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10 editions published between and 1999 in English and held by 514 libraries worldwide
Bainbridge looks at the longstanding differences between the ailing North and the prosperous South.
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4 editions published between and 2011 in English and held by 376 libraries worldwide
"In the tumultuous spring of 1968 a young English woman, Rose, travels from London to the United States to meet a man she knows as Washington Harold. In her suitcase are a polka dot dress and a one-way ticket. In an America recently convulsed by the April assassination of Martin Luther King and subsequent urban riots, they begin a search for the charismatic and elusive Dr. Wheeler - sage, prophet and, possibly, redeemer - who rescued Rose from a dreadful childhood and against whom Harold holds a seething grudge. As they follow their quarry cross-country in a camper they encounter the odd remnants of Wheeler acolytes who harbor festering cultural and political grievances. Along the way, a famous artist is shot in New York, mutilated soldiers are evacuated from Vietnam, race hatred explodes in ghettos and suburbs and casual madness blossoms at revival meetings. Many believe America's only hope is presidential candidate Robert Kennedy, whose campaign trail echoes Rose and Harold's pilgrimage. Both will conclude in Los Angeles at the Ambassador Hotel one infamous night in June. Subversive, sinister and marvelously vivid, Beryl Bainbridge's great last novel evokes a nation on the brink of self-destruction with artful brilliance."-- Publisher's description.
 
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Alternative Names
Bainbridge, Beryl
Bainbridge, Beryl, 1933-
Bainbridge, Beryl, 1934-
Bainbridge, Beryl M. 1932-2010 Writers dir.
Bainbridge, Beryl Margaret
Bainbridge, Beryl Margaret, 1932-2010
Bêynbrîdǧ, Berîl 1932-2010 hebr. Namensform
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