Beryl Bainbridge Ordre des livres

Beryl Bainbridge's Booker-shortlisted novel, reissued as one of five titles celebrating Abacus's 50th anniversary, with a new introduction by Amanda Craig

Beryl Bainbridge's classic early novel of English domestic life after the War, A Quiet Life is laced with irony and wicked black humour, and was praised by Hilary Mantel as 'one of the funniest books I have ever read'.

Beryl Bainbridge's classic early novel weaves a dark, clever tale of a young woman in thrall to a golden stranger in 1960s London.

In the rainswept summer of 1968, Rose sets off for the United States from Kentish Town to meet a man she knows as Washington Harold, in her suitcase a polka-dot dress and a one-way ticket. In a country rocked by the assassination of Martin Luther King and a rising groundswell of violence, they are to join forces in search of the charismatic and elusive Dr Wheeler - oracle, guru and redeemer - whom Rose credits with rescuing her from a terrible childhood, and against whom Harold nurses a silent grudge. As they trail their quarry, zigzagging through America in a camper van, the odd couple - Rose, damaged child of grey postwar Britain, and nervous, obsessive, driven Harold - encounter a ragged counter-cultural army of Wheeler's acolytes, eddying among dangerous currents of obscure dissent and rage. But somewhere in the wide American darkness, Dr Wheeler is waiting.

A black comedy about Hitler's time in Liverpool* 'Vintage bittersweet Bainbridge' - MAIL ON SUNDAY schovat popis

In the 1770s and 1780s Dr Johnson, having completed his life's work, is running an increasingly chaotic life. Torn between his strict morality and his undeclared passion for the widow of an old friend, he is revealed here in all his wit and glory.

Po stopách skutečného zločinu. Kriminální příběh z viktoriánské Anglie od renomované britské autorky, která se inspirovala skutečnou událostí, tzv. Stockwellskou tragédií, kdy ctihodný anglikánský kněz, učenec a pedagog, reverend J. S. Watson umlátil k smrti svou ženu. Dva dny její tělo schovával v pokoji a pak se pokusil o sebevraždu. Podivné okolnosti této události zůstávaly zahaleny tajemstvím. S představivostí novelistky vyplnila autorka prázdná místa kriminálního příběhu, aby vykreslila drsný portrét nešťastného manželství.

In 1854, when the battle of Inkerman in the Crimea was over, five survivors were hurriedly assembled in front of the camera. A sixth figure added symmetry to the group - Master Georgie. In the distance a young woman circled round and round like a bird above a robbed nest

'Brilliant ... do not miss this novel' DAILY TELEGRAPH * *'A moving, microcosmic portrait of an era's bitter end' THE TIMES

The four men who accompanied Captain Scott on his doomed expedition each tell their own story in this fictional reconstruction of the attempt to reach the South Pole.