Beryl Bainbridge Knihy

Kniha obsahuje dva romány – Podnikový výlet (1974) a Krajčírka (1973). Mierumilovné postavy sa zrazu ocitajú v nezvyčajných situáciach a hľadajúc únik pred trestom za zlo, ktoré nechtiac spôsobili, volia absurdnú, no jedinú možnosť záchrany.

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.

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

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.

Dvě novely (Podnikový výlet, 1974; V prodlouženém čase, 1977) současné britské autorky jsou groteskně ironické výpovědi o zápase obyčejného člověka s krutou realitou jeho života. Hrdinkami obou příběhů jsou ženy, které v očekávání životní změny směrem k lepšímu, se stávají obětí tragické nehody či násilí. Doslov napsal Martin Hilský.

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.

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

The classic novel - the first she ever wrote - by acclaimed, Man Booker Prize- winning author Beryl Bainbridge, Harriet Said... is a dark and gripping story of adolescent transgression set in a 1950s seaside resort.

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'.

This provocative and compelling novel by one of Britian's leading writers tells the darkly humorous tale of Stella, a star-struck, teenaged actress caught in the backstage intrigue of a 1950s Liverpool theater repertory company. Stella romances the director of a production of Peter Pan with consequences that would be uproariously funny if they were not so dire. The play becomes a metaphor for the darker side of youth as Stella is drawn into very adult mayhem.