Novelist Dame Beryl Bainbridge has died at the age of 75. The writer, whose works included The Dressmaker and Injury Time, passed away in the early hours of this morning after a short illness, her agent said.
Liverpool-born Bainbridge was nominated five times for the Booker Prize and won the Whitbread novel award twice. Dame Beryl's 1989 novel An Awfully Big Adventure was made into a film six years later starring Alan Rickman and Hugh Grant. She won the Whitbread award for Injury Time in 1977 and, in 1996, for Every Man For Himself - which was also shortlisted for the Booker.
