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Beryl Bainbridge
Beryl Bainbridge (1932-2010)

actor, artist, theatre critic

  • Merchant Taylors' Girls' School, Tring Park School for the Performing Arts

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According to Queeney
Master Georgie
Every man for himself
A quiet life
Watson's apology
Girl in the Polka Dot Dress
The Girl In The Polkadot Dress
According to Queenie
Birthday Boys
A Quiet Life
Every man for himself
According to Queeney
Watson's Apology
Quiet Life
Harriet said -
Injury Time
The bottle factory outing
English journey, or, The road to Milton Keynes
Sweet William
An Awfully Big Adventure
The birthday boys
The dressmaker
Another Part Of The Wood
Young Adolf
Forever England
Mum and Mr. Armitage
WINTER'S TALES (26) Twenty-Six
Front row
The secret glass
Sweet William (Flamingo)
The Girl In The Polkadot Dress
Filthy lucre, or, The tragedy of Ernest Ledwhistle and Richard Soleway
A Weekend with Claude
Front Row: Evenings at the Theatre
Winter garden
Watson's apology ; Mum and Mr. Armitage and other stories
Winter Garden
Un'avventura terribilmente complicata
Something happened yesterday
The Dressmaker
Collected stories
Every Man for Himself
A Quiet Life Virago Modern Classics
The Bottle Factory Outing
Harriet Said...
Master Georgie
A Quiet Life (Flamingo)
Weekend with Claude
The dressmaker
Sweet William
Filthy lucre
Injury Time
Novels of Beryl Bainbridge Volume Two
Weekend with Claude
A weekend with Claude
Awfully Big Adventure
Novels of Beryl Bainbridge Volume One
Mum and Mr. Armitage
According to Queeney Hb (Msr)
Bottle Factory Outing
A weekend with Claud
Collected Stories
Selon Queeney
Front Row Signed Edition
Young Adolf (Soundings S.)
Harriet Said
Young Adolf
Le Jardin d'hiver
Another Part of the Wood
Sombre dimanche
Lo ha dicho Harriet
Dressmaker
la fille avec la robe a pois
Unnatural Causes
A quiet life
The Birthday Boys (Bainbridge, Beryl)
Every Man for Himself B D/Bx24
Injury time
Sweet William
Salve-se que puder!
Efendi Georgie
Secret Glass
Master Georgie B D/Bx24
An Awfully Big Adventure (Bainbridge, Beryl)
Front Row Evenings at the Theatre
Every Man for Himself B S/Wx12
Nachtlicht. Der fesselnde Roman vom Untergang der Titanic
LA Costurera/the Dressmaker
The girl in the polka-dot dress
The Dressmaker (Sound)
The Bottle Factory Outing (Soundings)
Master Georgie (Bainbridge, Beryl)
Colin Haycraft, 1929-1994
Winter Garden (Soundings CD Library)
Georgie
Mum and Mr Armitage (Flamingo)
The Birthday Boys (Soundings)
Lo que dijo Harriet
Hugo Claus
Hugo Claus (1929-2008)

playwright, poet, film director, painter, translator, journalist, librettist, visual artist, director

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Verdriet van België
Desire
Toneel
Het verdriet van België
Greetings
Wonder
Ed van der Elsken
Friday
Hugo Claus
L' amour du prochain
Belladonna
Een slaapwandeling
Four Works for the Theatre by Hugo Claus
Karel Appel, painter
Gedichten
Even now
El Pez Espada
Der Kummer von Flandern
Thuis
Masscheroen
Almanak
De koele minnaar
Het jaar van de kreeft
Het leven en de werken van Leopold II
De zwaardvis
The Sorrow of Belgium
The Sacrament And Other Plays of Forbidden Love
Een bruid in de morgen
De zwarte keizer
De verwondering
Onvoltooid verleden
Blindeman
De vossejacht
De komedianten
The swordfish
Ontmoetingen met Corneille en Karel Appel
Poèmes
Een andere keer
Het haar van de hond
De Metsiers
Hugo Claus
Das Stillschweigen
Oktober '43
Groepsportret
Tand om tand
Le passé décomposé
Serenade
Belladona
In Kolonos
Le Chagrin des Belges
Verhalen
Wreed geluk
De sporen
Le désir
Honte
Het schommelpaard
Het verlangen
Le Dernier Lit et autres récits
Cruel bonheur (édition bilingue français/néerlandais)
Bewegen
Unvollendete Vergangenheit
Het huis van de liefde
De mensen hiernaast
Jessica!
The sign of the hamster
De mooiste kleren
Nu nog
Gedichten, 1948-1993
Figuratief
Het teken van de ram
Phaedra, naar Seneca
Alibi
Onvoltooid verleden
De hondsdagen
Veranneman
Vrijdag
De groene ridder en de paladijnen
De groene ridder en de paladijnen
De romans
Een geverfde ruiter
De wangebeden
Claustrum
De hondsdagen
De dans van de reiger
De Metsiers
Suiker
Onder de torens
Thyestes
Escal-Vigor
De zwarte keizer
Jakobs Verlangen
Paal en perk
In geval van nood
Gedichten 1969-1978
De pen gaat waar het hart niet kan
Interieur
L' homme aux mains vides
El Deseo
Four works for the theatre
De koele minnaar
Het Goudland
De verlossing
De vijanden
Pas de deux
DE VLUCHTENDE ATALANTA
Morituri. Libretto
Gedichte
In het wilde westen
FV 66 [i. e. seks og tres]
Gebed om geweld
Laat nooit deze brief aan iemand lezen
Het jaar van de kreeft
Thyeste
De nevel van den tijd
Mijn hart en ik
Aan de evenaar
Het huis van Labdakos
Oog om oog
Phaedra
Het teken van de hamster
Selected poems
Oedipus
De vijanden
Ik schrijf je neer
Vendredi, jour de liberté
Heer Everzwijn
Schaamte
Het Goudland
Oedipus. Naar Seneca
De Oostakkerse gedichten
Der Schlafwandler. Drei Geschichten
Natuurgetrouw; schetsen, verhalen, fabels, greguéria's, metamorfoses, dialogen, overwegingen, allegorieën, dagboekbladen, een reisbeschrijving, drie gedichten en een brief
Blauw blauw
Acht toneelstukken
De eieren van de kaaiman
'Elk op zijn toer'
De zwarte keizer
Mijn honderd gedichten
Dichterbij
The duck hunt
Van horen zeggen
Le signe du hamster
De wolken
Natuurgetrouwer
De geruchten
Orestes
Una Dulce Destruccion
Omtrent Deedee
Interieur. Toneelstuk
De blijde en onvoorziene week
DE VLUCHTENDE ATALANTA
Het Spiegelpaleis van Hugo Claus
Mexico vandaag
Gedichten
El Asombro
Omtrent Deedee; roman
Het goudland; Uilenspiegel; Masscheroen
Hugo Claus, Roger Raveel
Nieuwe tekeningen en gedichten
De Spaanse hoer
In Kolonos
DE VERZOEKING
Een zachte vernieling
De Oostakkerse gedichten
Louis Paul Boon
Visite
Keith Roberts
Keith Roberts (1935-2000)

painter, graphic designer, illustrator

  • Kettering Grammar School

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The Boat of Fate
The witchcraft reader
Warlocks and Warriors
New Worlds Nine
The inner wheel
Kiteworld
The Road to Paradise
Anita
Lemady
New Worlds 5
The grain kings
The Furies
The lordly ones
The 10th Science Fiction MEGAPACK
Grainne
Keith Roberts SF Gateway Omnibus
Molly Zero
Best SF Stories from New Worlds 3
Ladies from Hell
Fiction # 222
Pavane
Pavane
The Chalk Giants
Pavane
Kaeti & company
Kaeti and Company
Keith Roberts Sf Omnibus
Ladies from Hell
Winterwood and Other Hauntings
Molly Zero
Kaeti on Tour
Pavane
Molly zéro
A heron caught in weeds
Lemady
Kaeti on tour
Winterwood and Other Hauntings
Lordly Ones
Pavane
Machines and Men
Machines and Men
Lordly Ones
Winterwood and Other Hauntings
Winterwood and Other Hauntings
Kaeti and Company
Kaeti's apocalypse
Lemady
Lemady
Tierra de cometas
Passing of the Dragons
The Natural History of the P.H.
Kaeti & Company
Molly Zero
Molly Zero
Pavane
Machines and Men - Science Fiction Stories
Molly Zero
Machines and Men
Kaeti on Tour
Pavane (Del Rey Impact)
Pavana
Pavane
Molly Zero
Machines and Men - Science Fiction Stories
Marc de Bel
Marc de Bel (born 1954)

illustrator

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Nachum Gutman
Nachum Gutman (1898-1980)

sculptor, painter, illustrator, mosaicist

  • Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design

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Path of the orange peels
Hagadah shel Pesaḥ
ʻIr ḳeṭanah ṿa-anashim bah meʻaṭ
Memiyat ha-pelaʼim
Naḥum Guṭman
Ka-ʼeleh hayu
Naḥum Guṭman mevaḳer bi-meḥozot ha-reshʻa
ha- Pardes ha-ḳasum
Shir Yiśreʼeli
Harpatḳaʾot ḥamor she-kulo tekhelet
Naḥum Guṭman mevaḳer bi-meḥozot ha-rashaʻ
Be-tset Yiśraʼel mi-Mitsrayim
Ben ḥolot u-kheḥol-shamayim
Adam la-ʻamalo
ha-Pardes ha-ḳasum
Ka-ʾeleh hayu
Ani ohev le-tsayer
Ke-homer be-yad ha-yotser
Maʻaśeh be-shoṭer, be-salaṭ uvi-zenav parah
ha- Mizraḳah
Yamim rabim
Naḥum Guṭman
Shevil kelipat ha-tapuzim
רישומים משנות העשרים
Tapuḥe ha-ʻalumim
Meʼoraʻot E.Y.
Harpatḳaʾot ḥamor she-kulo tekhelet
Sipurim metsuyarim
Maḥberet ha-tsiyurim sheli
Sipure ha-Baron Minkhhozen
Shete avanim she-hen aḥat
ha-Ḥofesh ha-gadol
כל הרוצה להיות רב חובל יקרא מעשה זה
Mi-zaṿit aḥeret
Memiyat ha-pelaʾim
Ani ohev le-tsayer
Naḥum Guṭman
Meʾoraʻot Erets Yiśraʾel
ha-Ḥofesh ha-gadol o taʻalumat ha-argazim
ʻIr ḳeṭanah ṿa-anashim bah meʻaṭ
Zulu
Ḥayot ha-negev
Nachum Gutman
Oniyat ha-kushim
טעם ראשונים
ספורים מצוירים
Be-tset Yiśraʾel mi-Mitsrayim
על סף הנעורים
Hagadah shel Pesaḥ
ha-Pardes ha-ḳasum
ʻIr ḳeṭanah ṿa-anashim bah meʻat
Oniyat ha-Kushim
Tel Aviv sheli
Zulu
Adventures in clay
Zulu
Sipurim metsuyarim
Beʾaṭrits'ah
Be-erets Lobengulu melekh Zulu
Kaʼasher hayita ḳaṭan
Naḥum Guṭman
Be-erets Lobengulu melekh Zulu avi ʻam ha-Meṭabulu asher be-hare Bulaṿayah
נחום גוטמן
ʻAl saf ha-neʻurim
Gilles Tibo
Gilles Tibo (born 1951)

illustrator, caricaturist

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Suzanne Martel
Suzanne Martel (1924-2012)

journalist, storyteller, visual artist

  • University of Toronto, Ursulines of Quebec

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James Baker
James Baker (1847-1920)

traveler, journalist, poet, illustrator

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Literary and biographical studies
Pictures from Bohemia drawn with pen and pencil
Austria
Reminiscent gossip of men and matters
Report on technical and commercial education in East Prussia, Poland, Galicia, Silesia, and Bohemia
Literary and biographical studies
Multum in parvo