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Master Georgie
- Author
- Beryl Bainbridge
- Narrator
- Rebecca Norfolk, Paul Panting
- Publisher
- Ulverscroft Ltd
- Publish Date
- 8 September 2026
- Run Time
- 5 hours 4 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
When George Hardy, surgeon and photographer, sets off from the cold squalor of Victorian Liverpool for the heat and glitter of the Bosphorus to offer his services in the Crimea, there straggles behind him a small caravan of devoted followers: Myrtle, his adoring adoptive sister; lapsed geologist Dr Potter; and photographer’s assistant and sometime fire-eater Pompey Jones, driven onwards through a rising tide of death and disease by a shared and mysterious guilt.
Winner of the Man Booker 'Best of Beryl' prize, chosen by the public.
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Details
- Author
- Beryl Bainbridge
- Narrator
- Rebecca Norfolk, Paul Panting
- Duration
- 5 hours 4 minutes
- Release Date
- 8 September 2026
- ISBN
- 9781399195638
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Ulverscroft Ltd
- Genre
- Historical fiction, Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Humour
Synopsis
When George Hardy, surgeon and photographer, sets off from the cold squalor of Victorian Liverpool for the heat and glitter of the Bosphorus to offer his services in the Crimea, there straggles behind him a small caravan of devoted followers: Myrtle, his adoring adoptive sister; lapsed geologist Dr Potter; and photographer’s assistant and sometime fire-eater Pompey Jones, driven onwards through a rising tide of death and disease by a shared and mysterious guilt. Winner of the Man Booker 'Best of Beryl' prize, chosen by the public.
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