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  RTE.ie Entertainment - According to Beryl - Beryl Bainbridge
According to Dame Beryl Bainbridge, she began writing books when she was nine years old.
For Bainbridge, her affiliation to historical fiction springs more from a desire to tackle different topics than out of championing the cause of a neglected genre.
Bainbridge seems destined to be the eternal bridesmaid, never the bride.
www.rte.ie /arts/2001/0920/bainbridgeb.html   (655 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Books | Authors | Bainbridge, Beryl
Beryl Bainbridge and Bernice Rubens met in 1977, and later taught writing together.
Beryl Bainbridge shows John Mullan the passionate aspects to Doctor Johnson in her new novel, According to Queeney
This week a newspaper claimed that Beryl Bainbridge tricked an audience of book-lovers into singing the praises of non-existent author Rhoda F Comstock.
books.guardian.co.uk /authors/author/0,5917,-14,00.html   (475 words)

  
 Amazon.com: According to Queeney: Books: Beryl Bainbridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In recent years, Bainbridge's novels have shifted from pure fiction to the ironic treatment of historical figures or events: The Birthday Boys (1991) considered Scott's Antarctic expedition; Every Man for Himself (1996), the sinking of the Titanic; and Master Georgie (1998), the Crimean War.
Beryl Bainbridge can reach, both back into history and to some of the great players of their times, and not only grasp, but create wonderful new tales.
Although Bainbridge parades her huge supporting cast of characters to readers with scarcely an introduction as if we're on first name terms with them, it doesn't take long for us to catch up...and we make the effort because after a slow start, we're intrigued as we read on.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786709820?v=glance   (2427 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Beryl Bainbridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Beryl Bainbridge (born November 21, 1934), Liverpool,England is a novelist.
She has been nominated and shortlisted for the Booker Prize several times, but has never won it.
Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Beryl_Bainbridge   (270 words)

  
 Bainbridge-Georgia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
GARDNER is the Bainbridge Island reporter for the Kitsap Sun and the Bainbridge Islander.
The Bainbridge Chamber of Commerce is a not-for-profit New York State...
Fay Bainbridge Fay Bainbridge State Park is a 17-acre marine camping park...
georgia.gigabusca.com /cities/bainbridge-georgia.html   (1562 words)

  
 Beryl Bainbridge Life Stories, Books, & Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
On this day in 1934, British novelist Beryl Bainbridge was born.
Bainbridge's Johnson is not comfortable with love, nor was Boswell's....
"Bainbridge is gregarious, a chain-smoker, a keen drinker, but also reclusive and most completely so when writing.
www.todayinliterature.com /biography/beryl.bainbridge.asp   (248 words)

  
 Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge
Combining a breathtaking eye for beauty with a visceral understanding of mortality, Beryl Bainbridge exposes her enigmatic hero as tenderly and unsparingly as she reveals the filfth and misery of war, and creates a novel of luminous depth and extraordinary intensity.
I was twelve years old the first time Master Georgie ordered me to stand stock still and not blink.
It is hard to think of anyone now writing who understands the human heart as Beryl Bainbridge does...
www.stokenewington.net /readinggroup/books/bainbridge.html   (101 words)

  
 Master Georgie - Beryl Bainbridge - Review - Who is Georgie?
The only person that I ever associated with the name Beryl, was that naughty girl Beryl the Peril, from the Dandy, or was it the Beano.
But no, Beryl Bainbridge is also a famous author, four time a nominee for the Booker Prize and two times winner of the Whitbread Prize for fiction.
So, I guess I have to say sorry Beryl, a very nice read, but well one that will just drift into the memory of past books.
www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/master-georgie-beryl-bainbridge/288112   (957 words)

  
 The Birthday Boys by Beryl Bainbridge
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 Beryl Bainbridge - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK
Beryl Bainbridge - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK home
Beryl Bainbridge was born in Liverpool in 1934 but now lives in North London.
She was an actress before she began to write.
www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000001869,00.html   (91 words)

  
 Awfully Dark And Awfully Witty: Beryl Bainbridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In an interview at the Writer’s Digest online site, Beryl Bainbridge remarks, “I've always done short books.
For a complete listing of article comments, questions, and other discussions related to Pamela St. Clair's British Literature topic, please visit the Discussions page.
British Literature - Awfully Dark And Awfully Witty: Beryl Bainbridge - !http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/british_literature/79533
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/british_literature/79533   (503 words)

  
 Framheim-- A stirring collection of daring Antarctic books and outright lunacy
It's a return to the historic sites of the Heroic age in the South.
This is very close to going into the Not Recommended room.
Scott's Last Expedition, by Robert Falcon Scott, foreword by Beryl Bainbridge © 1996.
www.framheim.com /library/Antartic.htm   (1364 words)

  
 The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page: Books
So there are liberties taken, beginning with the title.)
According to Queeney, by Beryl Bainbridge, used copies as low as $0.50.
Bainbridge imagines life in the Thrale household, with a dying husband and a difficult relationship between Hester and her daughter Queeny.
www.samueljohnson.com /books.html   (1326 words)

  
 BBC - BBC Four - Audio Interviews - Beryl Bainbridge
BBC - BBC Four - Audio Interviews - Beryl Bainbridge
You will need RealPlayer to access these clips.
Noted for her psychologically sharp but subversive portrayal of English life, Bainbridge has in her more recent novels written about historical events such as Scott of the Antarctic and the Titanic.
www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/bainbridgeb1.shtml   (67 words)

  
 Master Georgie - Beryl Bainbridge - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
Master Georgie - Beryl Bainbridge - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
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Master Georgie - Beryl Bainbridge : Who is Georgie?
www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/master-georgie-beryl-bainbridge   (201 words)

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