In 1986, the English novelist Beryl Bainbridge signed a contract with an editor at William Collins for a non-fiction book about Liverpool. It was, in certain ways, an unlikely project. Then in her mid ...

Novelist Dame Beryl Bainbridge died on Friday morning at the age of 75 after a short battle with cancer. The author, whose acclaimed works included An Awfully Big Adventure and Master Georgie, died at ...

When she was 14, Beryl Bainbridge was expelled from school. In her 60s, she was made a Dame of the British Empire. In between and up until her death July 2 in her mid-70s (the exact year of her birth ...

PW's review of Beryl Bainbridge’s out-of-print novel An Awfully Big Adventure, first published in the U.S. by HarperCollins in 1991, proceeds in bits that are still blurb-able more than 30 years later ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Novelist Dame Beryl Bainbridge died at the age of 75 on Friday after battling cancer, her literary agent said. Liverpool-born Bainbridge, nominated for the Man Booker prize on five ...