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An Awfully Big Adventure

by Beryl Bainbridge ...

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 romantic.” (Patrick Skene Catling, The Sunday Telegraph)Liverpool, 1950. Against the grimy backdrop of the gray postwar city, a shabby, scandal-steeped repertory theater company rehearses for their ... Read more

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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 romantic.” (Patrick Skene Catling, The Sunday Telegraph)Liverpool, 1950. Against the grimy backdrop of the gray postwar city, a shabby, scandal-steeped repertory theater company rehearses for their
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The Book of Liverpool

A City in Short Fiction

by Ramsey Campbell, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Beryl Bainbridge ...

Featuring:Beryl Bainbridge, Brian Patten, Clive Barker, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Ramsey Campbell, Paul Farley, Margaret Murphy, Dinesh Allirajah, James Friel, and Tracy Aston.A baby blown out of an upstairs window by a WWII bomb lives to hear others tell the tale…A woman embarks on a long-term obsession with a city landmark, abandoning her lover for the Liver…A bricklayer working on the foundations ... Read more

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Featuring:Beryl Bainbridge, Brian Patten, Clive Barker, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Ramsey Campbell, Paul Farley, Margaret Murphy, Dinesh Allirajah, James Friel, and Tracy Aston.A baby blown out of an upstairs window by a WWII bomb lives to hear others tell the tale…A woman embarks on a long-term obsession with a city landmark, abandoning her lover for the Liver…A bricklayer working on the foundations
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The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress

by Beryl Bainbridge ...

An unlikely pair travel across 1960s America in this novel inspired by the enigmatic woman reportedly involved in the Robert Kennedy assassination—"Very gripping, very funny and deeply mysterious" ( The Spectator, UK)."As with a David Lynch film, the audience is taken on an awfully strange adventure." — The Globe and Mail (CA)In the tumultuous spring of ... ... Read more

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An unlikely pair travel across 1960s America in this novel inspired by the enigmatic woman reportedly involved in the Robert Kennedy assassination—"Very gripping, very funny and deeply mysterious" ( The Spectator, UK)."As with a David Lynch film, the audience is taken on an awfully strange adventure." — The Globe and Mail (CA)In the tumultuous spring of ...
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Watson's Apology

by Beryl Bainbridge ...

Narrated by Richard Atlee ...

Unabridged

10 hours 28 min

Anne Armstrong shares a squalid room in Dublin with her sister. Then a hasty marriage to John Watson, a former cleric and newly appointed teacher, transports her to a life of almost equal hardship and frustration in South London. There she receives no attention, no love, for Watson dedicates it all to his books. At last her only pleasure is to provoke her husband – until he puts a stop to her ... Read more

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Anne Armstrong shares a squalid room in Dublin with her sister. Then a hasty marriage to John Watson, a former cleric and newly appointed teacher, transports her to a life of almost equal hardship and frustration in South London. There she receives no attention, no love, for Watson dedicates it all to his books. At last her only pleasure is to provoke her husband – until he puts a stop to her
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An Awfully Big Adventure

by Beryl Bainbridge ...

Narrated by Charlotte Stevens ...

Unabridged

5 hours 6 min

It is 1950 and the Liverpool repertory theatre company is rehearsing its Christmas production of Peter Pan, a story of childhood innocence and loss. Stella has been taken on as assistant stage manager and quickly becomes obsessed with Meredith, the dissolute stage director. But it is only when the celebrated O'Hara arrives to take the lead that a different drama unfolds. In it, he and Stella are ... Read more

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It is 1950 and the Liverpool repertory theatre company is rehearsing its Christmas production of Peter Pan, a story of childhood innocence and loss. Stella has been taken on as assistant stage manager and quickly becomes obsessed with Meredith, the dissolute stage director. But it is only when the celebrated O'Hara arrives to take the lead that a different drama unfolds. In it, he and Stella are
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The Dressmaker

by Beryl Bainbridge ...

Narrated by Julie Maisey ...

Unabridged

4 hours 53 min

Wartime Liverpool is a place of ration books and jobs in munitions factories. Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally naïve and withdrawn. When she meets Ira, a GI, at a neighbour's party, she falls in love as much with the idea of life as a GI bride as with the man himself. But Nellie and Margo are not so blind… ... Read more

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Wartime Liverpool is a place of ration books and jobs in munitions factories. Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally naïve and withdrawn. When she meets Ira, a GI, at a neighbour's party, she falls in love as much with the idea of life as a GI bride as with the man himself. But Nellie and Margo are not so blind…
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Young Adolf

by Beryl Bainbridge ...

Narrated by Mark Meadows ...

Unabridged

5 hours 27 min

Paranoid, wilful, lazy, the young Adolf Hitler turns up in Liverpool to stay with his brother Alois and sister-in-law Bridget. Hailed by Alois as a student and an artist, Adolf soon irritates his family beyond measure by his constant sponging and his tendency to get into serious trouble with the English. Surely this is a young man who will never amount to anything ... Read more

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Paranoid, wilful, lazy, the young Adolf Hitler turns up in Liverpool to stay with his brother Alois and sister-in-law Bridget. Hailed by Alois as a student and an artist, Adolf soon irritates his family beyond measure by his constant sponging and his tendency to get into serious trouble with the English. Surely this is a young man who will never amount to anything
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The Birthday Boys

by Beryl Bainbridge ...

Narrated by Simon Mattacks ...

Unabridged

5 hours 47 min

A brilliantly realised evocation of the thoughts and voices of Captain Scott and the four men with him, who suffered extraordinary hardships before finally dying during their 1912 attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole. The Birthday Boys tells story of Scott's doomed expedition through the voices of five men on the voyage. As Scott, Petty Officer Taff Evans, ship's doctor Edward Wilson, ... Read more

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A brilliantly realised evocation of the thoughts and voices of Captain Scott and the four men with him, who suffered extraordinary hardships before finally dying during their 1912 attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole. The Birthday Boys tells story of Scott's doomed expedition through the voices of five men on the voyage. As Scott, Petty Officer Taff Evans, ship's doctor Edward Wilson,
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The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress

by Beryl Bainbridge ...

Narrated by Imogen Church ...

Unabridged

6 hours 29 min

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 a terrible childhood, and against whom Harold nurses a silent grudge. As the odd couple journey ... Read more

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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 a terrible childhood, and against whom Harold nurses a silent grudge. As the odd couple journey
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According to Queeney

by Beryl Bainbridge ...

Narrated by Mark Meadows ...

Unabridged

7 hours 31 min

In 1764, the great Samuel Johnson, irascible genius, unparalleled wit and the toast of all society, is plagued by ill health and has become jaded by his bickering descendants. Suffering from a bout of melancholy, he accepts an invitation to the table of Henry Thrale, a wealthy Southwark brewer, and his vivacious wife Hester. Thus begins an extraordinary relationship that is to last 20 years. ... Read more

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In 1764, the great Samuel Johnson, irascible genius, unparalleled wit and the toast of all society, is plagued by ill health and has become jaded by his bickering descendants. Suffering from a bout of melancholy, he accepts an invitation to the table of Henry Thrale, a wealthy Southwark brewer, and his vivacious wife Hester. Thus begins an extraordinary relationship that is to last 20 years.
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The Bottle Factory Outing

by Beryl Bainbridge ...

Narrated by Imogen Church ...

Unabridged

7 hours 20 min

Freda and Brenda spend their days working in an Italian-run wine-bottling factory. A work outing offers promise for Freda and terror from Brenda; passions run high on that chilly day of freedom, and life after the outing never returns to normal. Inspired by author Beryl Bainbridge's own experiences working at a London wine-factory in the 1970s, The Bottle Factory Outing examines issues of ... Read more

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Freda and Brenda spend their days working in an Italian-run wine-bottling factory. A work outing offers promise for Freda and terror from Brenda; passions run high on that chilly day of freedom, and life after the outing never returns to normal. Inspired by author Beryl Bainbridge's own experiences working at a London wine-factory in the 1970s, The Bottle Factory Outing examines issues of
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A Weekend With Claude

by Beryl Bainbridge ...

Narrated by Emma Powell ...

Unabridged

4 hours 46 min

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 ensnare an unwitting father for her unborn child. Next to her is Norman, a Marxist romantic hell ... Read more

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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 ensnare an unwitting father for her unborn child. Next to her is Norman, a Marxist romantic hell
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