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Beryl Bainbridge

(1932 - 2010)

Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge, DBE was an English novelist. Bainbridge won the Whitbread Awards prize for best novel in 1977 and 1996; she was nominated five times for the Booker Prize. She was described in 2007 as "a national treasure". In 2008, The Times newspaper named Bainbridge among their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".

Awards: Nibbies (1999), James Tait Black (1998), Whitbread (1996) see all

Genres: Literary Fiction

Novels

   A Weekend with Claude (1967)
   Another Part of the Wood (1968)
   Harriet Said (1973)
   The Secret Glass (1974)
   The Bottle Factory Outing (1974)
   The Dressmaker (1974)
   Sweet William (1975)
   A Quiet Life (1976)
   Injury Time (1977)
   Young Adolf (1978)
   Winter Garden (1980)
   Watson's Apology (1984)
   Filthy lucre (1986)
   Forever England (1987)
   An Awfully Big Adventure (1989)
   The Birthday Boys (1991)
   The Dolphin Connection (1991)
   Something Happened Yesterday (1993)
   Every Man for Himself (1996)
   Master Georgie (1998)
   According to Queeney (1999)
   The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress (2011)

Collections

   Watson's Apology, Mum and Mr. Armitage (1985)
   Mum and Mr. Armitage (1985)
   Collected stories (1988)
   Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season (2022) (with others)

Anthologies edited

   New Stories (1981)
   Unnatural Causes (1986)
   Northern Short Stories Vol 5 (1994) (with David Pownall)

Series contributed to

Ox-Tales
Ox-Tales:Air (2009) (with others)

Comma Singles
Claire with Fair Hair (2013)

Non fiction show

Omnibus editions show

Books containing stories by Beryl Bainbridge

The Book of Liverpool (2008)
A City in Short Fiction
(Reading the City)
edited by
Maria Crossan and Eleanor Rees

The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories (1987)
edited by
Malcolm Bradbury

Awards

	1999 British Book Award Author of the Year
	1998 James Tait Black Memorial Prize : Master Georgie
	1996 Whitbread Prize for Best Novel : Every Man for Himself
	1996 Guardian Fiction Prize : Every Man for Himself
	1977 Whitbread Prize for Best Novel : Injury Time

Award nominations

	2001 Booker Prize (longlist) : According to Queeney
	1998 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Master Georgie
	1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (nominee) : Every Man for Himself
	1996 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Every Man for Himself
	1990 Booker Prize (shortlist) : An Awfully Big Adventure
	1974 Booker Prize (shortlist) : The Bottle Factory Outing
	1973 Booker Prize (shortlist) : The Dressmaker

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