4 results for '"Beryl Bainbridge"'

Freda and Brenda spend their days working in an Italian-run wine-bottling factory. A work outing offers promise for Freda, and terror for Brenda, passions run high on that chilly day of freedom, and...

In this hilarious and ingenious novel set in 1912, Young Adolf Hitler, age twenty-three, comes to Liverpool, penniless, traveling with false papers, and perpetually stalked by imaginary enemies. His...

"Beryl Bainbridge, Muriel Spark, and Graham Greene all come to mind, but Azzopardi's style is all her own."--Chicago Tribune New York Times Editors' Choice, the breathtaking third novel from Booker...

A “dark and brilliant” story of the secrets, sex, and violence playing out behind the scenes of a repertory theater troupe in postwar Liverpool: “Never before has showbusiness been revealed as less...