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A Quiet Life by Beryl Bainbridge
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
$22.99 AUD
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
Every Man For Himself by Beryl Bainbridge
$24.99 AUD
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
$22.99 AUD
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
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Abacus 40th Anniversary
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
Sweet William by Beryl Bainbridge
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics
'People came in and out, chairs were moved, dishes gathered up on trays, but it was happening at a great distance; she concentrated entirely on his pink face crowned with foppish curls.' Genteel, passive Ann works for the BBC in London and is engaged to a successful academic, fulfilling her snobbish mot ...Show more
The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress by Beryl Bainbridge
$22.99 AUD
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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