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A Quiet Life by Beryl Bainbridge
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classics
Seventeen-year-old Alan can't stand rows. But, though the Second World War has ended, peace hangs by a fine thread at home: his troublesome sister Madge creeps off for night-time liaisons with a German POW; their ineffectual father - broken by the hardships of war and an unhappy marriage - can't put foo ...Show more
A Weekend with Claude by Beryl Bainbridge
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
An old snapshot shows a group of friends lounging in the sunshine, on a weekend in the country at the invitation of bearded, satyric Claude and his wife Julia. The girl in the centre is dreamy Lily, whose latest failed love affair forms the purpose of the weekend, as Lily's friends set out to help her e ...Show more
An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
It is 1950 and the Liverpool reporatory theatre company is rehearsing its Christmas production of Peter Pan, a story of childhood innocence and loss. Stella has been taken on as assistant stage manager and quickly becomes obsessed with Meredith, the dissolute director. But it is only when the celebrated ...Show more
Another Part of the World (Penguin Decades) by Beryl Bainbridge
$29.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
"Penguin Decades" bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of ...Show more
Every Man For Himself by Beryl Bainbridge
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
'A narrative both sparkling and deep... the cost of raising [the Titanic] is prohibitive; Bainbridge does the next best thing' Hilary Mantel 'Brilliant...do not miss this novel' Daily Telegraph 'A moving, microcosmic portrait of an era's bitter end' The Times For the four fraught, mysterious days of h ...Show more
Harriet Said... by Beryl Bainbridge
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
A girl returns from boarding school to her sleepy Merseyside hometown and waits to be reunited with her childhood friend, Harriet, chief architect of all their past mischief. She roams listlessly along the shoreline and the woods still pitted with wartime trenches, and encounters 'the Tsar' - almost old ...Show more
Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
When Master Georgie - George Hardy, surgeon and photographer - sets off from the cold squalor of Victorian Liverpool for the heat and glitter of the Bosphorus to offer his services in the Crimea, there straggles behind him a small caravan of devoted followers; Myrtle, his adoring adoptive sister; lapsed ...Show more
The Birthday Boys by Beryl Bainbridge
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
'Beryl Bainbridge gets better and better ...she has succeeded with a daring leap of emphatic imagination in penetrating the minds of Captain Scott and the four men he led to their deaths in Antarctica in 1912' Patrick Skene Catling, Evening Standard THE BIRTHDAY BOYS is classic Bainbridge - one of her a ...Show more
The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Freda and Brenda spend their days working in an Italian-run wine-bottling factory. A work outing offers promise for Freda and terror from Brenda; passions run high on that chilly day of freedom, and life after the outing never returns to normal. Beryl Bainbridge will dazzle readers in this offbeat, haun ...Show more
The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress by Beryl Bainbridge
$36.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
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 jo ...Show more
The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress by Beryl Bainbridge
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
In the summer of 1968, Rose sets off for the United States from Kentish Town; in her suitcase a polka-dot dress and a one-way ticket. Together with the sinister man known only as Washington Harold, she goes in search of the charismatic and elusive Dr Wheeler - the man Rose credits with rescuing her from ...Show more
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