Bainbridge: 97 books
Injury Time
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Winner of the Whitbread Literary Award: A darkly humorous tale about a 1970s dinner party gone terribly wrong by one of Britain’s most renowned authors.
Edward is normally a cautious man, especially when it comes to his mistress, Binny. But he feels bad that his lover never gets to enjoy...
A Weekend with Claude
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
A group of eccentric****friends makes a mess of their shared holiday in this witty novel from one of Britain’s best-loved authors.
When Claude stumbles upon an old photo, memories of a weekend spent in the company of his friends come back in full force. In the snapshot are Lily, a thick-ankled...
Middle Age
A Natural History
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
David Bainbridge is a vet with a particular interest in evolutionary zoology - and he has just turned forty. As well as the usual concerns about greying hair, failing eyesight and goldfish levels of forgetfulness, he finds himself pondering some bigger questions: have I come to the end of my productive...
Nanoconvergence
The Unity of Nanoscience, Biotechnology, Information Technology and Cognitive Science
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2007
In Nanoconvergence , William Sims Bainbridge tours the future of science and technology in plain, nontechnical English. Bainbridge draws on an extraordinary breadth and depth of knowledge, based on his unique role at the epicenter of the nanoconvergence revolution. He successfully integrates insights...
Star Worlds
Freedom Versus Control in Online Gameworlds
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Star Worlds explores the future-oriented universe of online virtual worlds connected with popular science fiction—specifically, with Star Wars and Star Trek—that have been inhabited for over a decade by computer gamers. The Star Wars and Star Trek franchises, both of which have shaped the dominant...
The Dressmaker
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: This psychological drama set in Liverpool during WWII follows the courtship of a US soldier and an English working-class girl.
Rita is a passive and naïve seventeen-year-old who has been raised by two middle-aged aunts: Nellie, a curmudgeonly dressmaker...
Master Georgie
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: A masterwork of love, guilt, and friendship set in Victorian Liverpool and Eastern Europe during the Crimean War.
Photography is the common thread weaving together three different points of view that span the years from 1846 to 1854. The first “plate” opens...
Harriet Said
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The infamous Parker–Hulme murder case inspired this frightening tale of adolescent transgression in an English seaside town.
When a thirteen-year-old girl returns from boarding school to her small hometown in Merseyside for summer break, her best friend, Harriet, is not back yet, and she’s...
Gardening with Less Water
Low-Tech, Low-Cost Techniques; Use up to 90% Less Water in Your Garden
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
2016 Silver Nautilus Book Award Winner for Green Living & Sustainability
Are you facing drought or water shortages? Gardening with Less Water offers simple, inexpensive, low-tech techniques for watering your garden much more efficiently — using up to 90 percent less water for the same...
According to Queeney
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
This historical novel set during the eighteenth century recounts the tumultuous final years of famed English lexicographer and poet Samuel Johnson.
In 1764, Britain’s greatest man of letters—the writer of the first English dictionary—shut himself in his room and refused to come out. Exhausted...
A Guide for Desert and Dryland Restoration
New Hope for Arid Lands
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Dryland degradation and desertification now affect alma billion people around the world. Tragically, the biological resources and productivity of millions of acres of land are lto desertification each year because people remain unaware of strategies and techniques that could improve yields, reduce...
Heirloom Wood
A Modern Guide to Carving Spoons, Bowls, Boards, and other Homewares
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Heirloom Wood is a love letter to wood’s form and function through simple woodworking projects. Combining traditional techniques with contemporary design, Max Bainbridge teaches you how to identify wood types, source timber, and set up a basic toolbox, then offers step-by-step carving and cutting...
Outsourcing the Board
How Board Service Providers Can Improve Corporate Governance
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
In this groundbreaking work, Stephen M. Bainbridge and M. Todd Henderson change the conversation about corporate governance by examining the origins, roles, and performance of boards with a simple question in mind: why does the law require governance to be delivered through individual board members?...
by Beryl Bainbridge
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
In the tumultuous spring of 1968 a young English woman, Rose, travels from London to the United States to meet a man she knows as Washington Harold. In her suitcase are a polka dot dress and a one-way ticket. In an America recently convulsed by the April assassination of Martin Luther King and subsequent...