Karl Miller

In Britain an eager admiration of her was shared by editor Karl Miller and historian Eric Hobsbawm . Reviews throughout her career have been mostly appreciative, even celebratory. Christian Lorentzen struck an unwonted splenetic note...

Anne Enright in The Guardian offered an enthusiastic welcome to this book, praising its prose that is scrupulous and lyrical, beautiful and exact.Karl Miller , in an astute review, also offered a personal...

This was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Philip Larkin (a member of the jury) voted against it on the grounds that it was memoir rather than fiction, and it did not win. Karl Miller

Admiration of HW as a writer united historian Eric Hobsbawm and editor Karl Miller . Miller judged the memoirs a well-written serious work, as much a work of social history, a study of class and...

Three poems by SH appeared in the New Statesman, whose editor was Karl Miller .

Before beginning work on The Dressmaker, BB had begun on a novel set in the USA entitled He's the Captan of the Team. This seems to have no connection with The Dressmaker...

This book was runner-up for the Booker Prize, by a whisker and a casting vote. The winner was The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell . The judges were Edna O'Brien and Mary McCarthy

Reviews were excellent, but BB was astonished when they treated this as a funny book.Karl Miller , a steady admirer of her writing, hoped Bainbridge would get the Booker Prize...