Beryl Bainbridge

...shelves. But literature's neglected novels will shine once more when Britain's top authors plead their case in a BBC series. Beryl Bainbridge, William Boyd and Ruth Rendell are among the writers who will each champion a novel that, through...

In this article: Samuel Johnson, Joanna Trollope, Anthony Trollope, Waste, and The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

...attempted to purchase Philby's archive on behalf of the British Library. On a more gossipy note, he provides amusing anecdotes of Beryl Bainbridge and Bernice Rubens playfully at a party asking the agent Giles Gordon which one of them he had...

In this article: Susan Hill, Dog, Graham Greene, God, Howards End, Kim Philby, Enid Blyton, Magnus Hirschfeld, and Roald Dahl

...is that he won't win this time. I'd love to see Murakami or Pynchon win. I also like the list of people who are tied for 100/1 odds: Beryl Bainbridge, Cormac McCarthy, David Malouf, Eeva Kilpi, Ernesto Cardenal, F. Sionil Jose, Ian McEwan,...

In this article: Nobel Prize for Literature, Ernesto Cardenal, William H Gass, Thomas Pynchon, and Ian McEwan

...the year 2007, Charlie Russell produced a documentary, "Beryl's Last Year", about the life his grandmother, Beryl Bainbridge. Beryl believed she was destined to die aged 71, like her father, mother and nine other relatives. The...

In this article: Beryl Margaret Bainbridge, Liverpool, Suicide, Open University, BBC Four, Booker Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Merchant Taylors' Girls' School, and Crimean War

...collection of essays, Delight, the volume includes contributions from over 80 public figures including Stephen Fry, Nigel Slater, Beryl Bainbridge, Tim Rice, Tamsin Greig and Alexei Sayle. Comedian Jo tells the tale of when, as a moody...

In this article: Jo Brand, Bill Nighy, Michelle Obama, and Stephen Fry

...professionally for 20 years and he is courteous and amazingly generous with his time. I am bewildered by the media perception of him. Beryl Bainbridge, Novelist I first met Martin when he was quite young, we have done one or two literary...

In this article: Martin Amis, Money, The Rachel Papers, Time's Arrow, Yellow Dog, Experience, Family resemblance, Suicide, and Islamic

...and the Hay festival, which sees the publication of four paperback collections of stories by well-known British authors including Beryl Bainbridge, Jonathan Coe, Hanif Kureishi and Jeanette Winterson. All 38 authors have donated their work...

In this article: Oxfam, The Sunday Times, Theseus, Jonathan Coe, Profile Books, Hari Kunzru, and Ian Rankin

Although she has been nominated five times, Dame Beryl Bainbridge has never won the Booker Prize. The celebrated author will have only one more chance as Mandrake can disclose that she is to put down her pen after she completes her current...

In this article: Booker Prize, The Oldie, Simpson's-in-the-Strand, and Master Georgie

Beloved by the reviewers and shortlisted for the Booker Prize on no fewer than five occasions, Dame Beryl Bainbridge nevertheless felt short-changed at the British Library as she watched Seamus Heaney pick up this year's David Cohen Prize in...

In this article: Inflation, Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize, Booker Prize, Thom Gunn, and British Library

...to find myself in the thick of rather too much controversy, none of it I think represented in the pages of 'Prospect'." Elfin novelist Beryl Bainbridge claims to have had her heart broken by a failed marriage as a young woman. But she is...

In this article: Terry Wogan, Gordon Brown, Germaine Greer, Labour, Brian Paddick, ITV, Compass, and Neal Lawson