Reading Beryl Bainbridge

Published on by Margaret

Annabel at AnnaBookBel is hosting the third Reading Beryl week from 18 – 26 November, enveloping her birthdate on the 21st.

In previous years I’ve read According to Queenie, a novel about the life of Samuel Johnson as seen through the eyes of Queeney, Mrs Thrale, and the other Master Georgie, set in the Crimean War telling the story of George Hardy, a surgeon.

Since starting my blog I’ve also read these books, which are linked to my posts:

I have copies of the following books of hers left to read:

  • Every Man for Himself – Recapturing the four crucial days prior to the sinking of the Titanic and the loss of fifteen hundred lives, this story is told from the perspective of Morgan, the American nephew of the owner of the shipping line, and reveals how his destiny is linked to other passengers.
  • Winter Garden – Ashburner’s wife had been sporting about his need for a rest, packing him off on a holiday to Scotland. But in the taxi he changed his luggage labels and checked in for a flight to Moscow. He was the official companion to the artist Nina St Clair – but within 48 hours Nina had vanished. I did start reading this but it didn’t appeal to me very much, so the book has gone back on the shelf for a while.

I’ve started reading Every Man for Himself, and may finish it in time to write about it – I hope so anyway.

5 thoughts on “Reading Beryl Bainbridge”

  1. That’s a good list of Bainbridge’s work, Margaret, and you’ve read so much of it! I like it that there’s attention being paid to it, too; I sometimes think it doesn’t get the notice it deserves.

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  2. Bainbridge wrote 20 novels so there’s still plenty of her books left for me to read. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times but never won it, although she did win a one-off prize in 2011 when Master Georgie was voted by the public The Man Booker Best of Beryl. She does deserve more notice!

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  3. I’ve not read anything by Bainbridge. The books you’ve mentioned sound intriguing, Margaret. She covers such a range of historical events. I have always assumed her to be a writer of contemporary novels. How wrong I was!

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    1. The Birthday Boys sounds marvellous as does Every Man for Himself and also A Quiet Life. All of which are available from my library. I’m excited to get to experience her writing!

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