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Railing against the snakeheads

Islington Tribune 20 Apr 2023

Nina Bawden and Austen. WORLD-famous writer Nina Bawden, badly injured in a rail crash that killed her beloved husband, Austen, found peace and comfort in the aftermath from a painting of the tranquil canal opposite her home at the Angel, Islington.

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Louise Kennedy: ‘I read Wuthering Heights twice and found it demented’

The Guardian 31 Mar 2023

Exhilarating. My favourite book growing up Nina Bawden ’s Carrie’s War was the book of my childhood ... ....

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The Permanent Way

British Theatre Guide 04 Dec 2022

Morgan Rees-Davies brought light relief as a flippant, look-on-the-bright-side-of-life Richard Branson, Dawn Bush spoke poignantly as Nina (Bawden) about the loss of her husband, and Ellie Darvill’s ...

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Nov. 2 Bridge

Rocky Mount Telegram 02 Nov 2022

Nina Bawden was an English novelist who is one of very few who have both served as a Booker judge and made a Booker shortlist as an author. She said, “A writer’s work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it.” ... ....

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11/2 Bridge

The Lufkin News 02 Nov 2022

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Bridge: Signals must be sent and decoded

Hastings Tribune 02 Nov 2022

Nina Bawden was an English novelist who is one of very few who have both served as a Booker judge and made a Booker shortlist as an author. She said, "A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it." ... .

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Signals must be sent and decoded

The Marshall Democrat-News 02 Nov 2022

Bridge by Phillip Adler. Nina Bawden was an English novelist who is one of very few who have both served as a Booker judge and made a Booker shortlist as an author ... It is similar at the bridge table ... West led the spade five. two, ace, four.

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The Times Daily Quiz: Tuesday June 28, 2022

The Times/The Sunday Times 28 Jun 2022

1 Which anniversary is the TV soap Emmerdale celebrating in 2022? ... 7 Nina Bawden’s 1973 children’s novel Carrie’s War is set during which conflict? ... .

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Mark Gatiss TV version brings The Amazing Mr Blunden back into print

The Observer 26 Nov 2021

The new edition of The Amazing Mr Blunden. Photograph. Virago ... Coonan heads up the Virago children’s list, which publishes classic authors such as Nina Bawden and Joan Aiken ... Mark Gatiss. ‘I’m currently very, very ashamed of being English’. Read more ... .