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".
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A Quite Life A Weekend With Claude According To Queeney An Awfully Big Adventure Another Part of the Wood Collected Stories Every Man for Himself Harriet Said Injury Time Master Georgie The Bottle Factory Outing The Dressmaker The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress Watson's Apology Winter Garden
