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According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge
24.95 NZD
29.95 (16% off)
Category: Fiction
Beryl Bainbridge's latest novel is a masterly evocation of the last years of Dr Johnson, arguably Britain's greatest Man of Letters. The time is the 1770s and 1780s and Johnson, having completed his life's major work (he compiled the first ever Dictionary of the English Language) is running an increasin ...Show more
An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge
29.99 NZD
Category: General 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
Every Man For Himself by Beryl Bainbridge
29.99 NZD
Category: Historical 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
Injury Time by Beryl Bainbridge
26.95 NZD
29.95 (10% off)
Category: Fiction
A gripping thriller based on a real life event (the Balcombe Street siege).Edward is throwing a dinner party with Binny , his mistress. Aware that she has long been denied those small intimacies that his wife takes for granted - choosing a birthday present for his sister, for example, or sorting his soc ...Show more
Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge
29.99 NZD
Category: General 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 Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge
29.99 NZD
Category: General 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 Dressmaker by Beryl Bainbridge
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Wartime Liverpool is a place of ration books and jobs in munitions factories. Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally naive 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 himsel ...Show more
The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress by Beryl Bainbridge
36.99 NZD
Category: General 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
Winter Garden by Beryl Bainbridge
27.00 NZD
29.99 (9% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Quiet and reliable, Douglas Ashburner has never been much of a womaniser. So when he begins an extra-marital affair with Nina, a bossy, temperamental artist with a penchant for risky sex, he finds adultery a terrible strain.He tells his wife that he needs a rest, so she happily packs him off for a fishi ...Show more
Young Adolf by Beryl Bainbridge
26.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
Paranoid, wilful, lazy, the young Adolf Hitler turns up in Liverpool to stay with his brother Alois and sister-in-law Bridget. Hailed by Alois as a student and an artist, Adolf soon irritates his family beyond measure by his constant sponging and his tendency to get into serious trouble with the English ...Show more
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