Born 90 years ago, the much-loved Dame was shortlisted five times for the Booker Prize - the most that any author has been shortlisted without actually winning
Every Man for Himself
Written by Beryl Bainbridge
- Shortlisted
- The Booker Prize 1996
- Published by Duckworth
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Beryl Bainbridge’s fictional history chronicles the fate of the privileged passengers of the Titanic on its doomed maiden voyage
For four fraught, mysterious days in 1912, the Titanic sails towards New York, glittering with luxury, freighted with millionaires and hopefuls. In her labyrinthine passageways are played out the last, secret hours of a small group of passengers, their fate sealed in prose of startling, sublime beauty, as this haunting masterpiece moves inexorably to its known and terrible end.
Beryl Bainbridge
Beryl Bainbridge, who died in 2010, was a Booker Prize heroine
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