The Buffalo in the Hall
Susannah Clapp: Beryl Bainbridge, 5 January 2017
Beryl Bainbridge: Love by All Sorts of Means, a Biography
by Brendan King.
Bloomsbury, 564 pp., £25, September 2016,978 1 4729 0853 7 Show More
by Brendan King.
Bloomsbury, 564 pp., £25, September 2016,
“... the depth of her feeling. He was rueful about his tussles with his co-panellists Mary McCarthy and Edna O’Brien when chairing the Booker in 1973. He had wanted The Dressmaker to win. J.G. Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur – incidentally, the only book by a man on the shortlist – got the award. When I was on the panel in 1990, I wanted An Awfully ... ”