Bainbridge: 97 books
The Novels of Beryl Bainbridge Volume One
An Awfully Big Adventure, The Birthday Boys, and Master Georgie
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Three unforgettable novels from the “subversive and ever-mischievous imagination” of a celebrated British author and five-time Man Booker Prize nominee (The New York Times).
With crisp prose and sardonic wit, Dame Beryl Bainbridge established a unique position for herself in the landscape...
The Novels of Beryl Bainbridge Volume Two
The Dressmaker, The Bottle Factory Outing, and Injury Time
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Three darkly comic novels from the two-time Whitbread Award winner whose “masterful restraint . . . reveals an author in complete control of her artistry” (The Guardian).
With taut prose and mordant wit, Dame Beryl Bainbridge established a unique position for herself as “one of the...
by Beryl Bainbridge
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The complete short stories—including six previously uncollected works and one novella—of award-winning British literary giant Beryl Bainbridge.
From one of the United Kingdom’s most famed female novelists come nineteen different takes on the often cruel, usually comic, and utterly strange...
The Birthday Boys
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The dramatic, fictionalized account of Robert Falcon Scott’s famed and fatal expedition to Antarctica by one of Britain’s best-loved authors.
Departing from Cardiff in 1910, the Terra Nova entered dark waters and headed south. On board were Petty Officer Edgar “Taff” Evans, Dr. Edward...
eGods
Faith versus Fantasy in Computer Gaming
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
What is the relationship between religion and multi-player online roleplaying games? Are such games simply a secular distraction from traditional religious practices, or do they in fact offer a different route to the sacred? In eGods, a leading scholar in the study of virtual gameworlds takes an in-depth...
Curvology
The Origins and Power of Female Body Shape
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Few things are as tantalizing as a woman’s curves…and yet, humans are the only mammals on earth whose females have curvy bodies. Why? And what does this unique body shape mean for us? In Curvology, researcher David Bainbridge uses his scientific know-how to get to the bottom of this anatomical...
Teenagers
A Natural History
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
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A biological, anthropological, zoological, and cultural study of human adolescence that explains how teenagers are the pinnacle of human achievement.
This book will change the way people think about teenagers. No longer society's scourge, the teenager emerges from David Bainbridge's...
God from the Machine
Artificial Intelligence Models of Religious Cognition
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2006
'God from the machine' (deus ex machina) refers to an ancient dramatic device where a god was mechanically brought onto the stage to save the hero from a difficult situation. But here, William Sims Bainbridge uses the term in a strikingly different way. Instead of looking to a machine to deliver an...
The Bottle Factory Outing
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Named by the Observer as “one of the 100 greatest novels of all time,” this dark comedy with a disturbing twist follows two working-class women in 1970s London.
Unlikely friends Brenda and Freda share a rundown room in London and toil away at an Italian factory pasting labels onto wine...
An Awfully Big Adventure
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: In postwar Liverpool, a teenager joins a theater troupe to escape her working-class life—and is drawn into a darker world.
From one of Britain’s best-loved novelists, this is the story of Stella Bradshaw, an orphaned sixteen-year-old with dreams of...
Another Part of the Wood
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Social dysfunction meets dangerous perversion in this black comedy about two misfit families camping in the Welsh woods.
George McFarley, a six-foot-eight hulk of a man obsessed with the Holocaust, and his assistant, Balfour, an unbearably shy stutterer, are the unconventional hosts of a weekend...
by Luke Bainbridge
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
The arrival of a new style of music and a new type of drug in 1988 ignited a revolution. To coincide with the 25th anniversary of the second summer of love, this is the definitive story of the seismic movements in music and youth culture that changed the cultural landscape forever. Luke Bainbridge...
American Gunfight
The Plot to Kill Harry Truman--and the Shoot-out that Stopped It
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2005
American Gunfight is the fast-paced, definitive, and breathtakingly suspenseful account of an extraordinary historical event -- the attempted assassination of President Harry Truman in 1950 by two Puerto Rican Nationalists and the bloody shoot-out in the streets of Washington, D.C., that saved the...
Savage Summer
The Curt Savage Mysteries, #1
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
**"A solid Thriller ... Ruth Bainbridge has reallycreated an imaginative thriller that has plenty of twists andsurprises." **
"When life gives you lemons ... be sure to spit the pits out ofthat lemonade you're making. Otherwise you'll choke." - Curt Savage
The past year...