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Nina Bawden

July 2016

  • The Peppermint Pig

    Children's books
    The first lines of Puffin classics – in pictures

    From Nina Bawden’s Peppermint Pig to Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea, see the beautiful new covers of these re-issued Puffin classic children’s books – and read the immortal first lines

June 2016

  • Emma Brockes

    Notebook
    Even a lying sext pest would be preferable to Donald Trump

    Emma Brockes
    Anthony Weiner’s penchant for sending pics of his penis to women seems minor league when compared with the threat posed by the likely Republican candidate

November 2015

  • Family in bomb debris

    Children's books
    Which books can help me understand what it's like to be bombed?

    As our politicians decide whether to bomb Syria, the Book Doctor picks out books that help us understand what it’s like to be threatened by bombs, from Robert Westall’s The Machine Gunners to Joe Sacco’s Palestine

May 2015

  • Newspaper War is Declared

    Children's books
    VE Day quiz: second world war in children's fiction

    To commemorate the 70th anniversary of VE Day, commonly known as the day that the allies (Britain, France and Russia) defeated Germany in the second world war, we've put together a quiz about books which are set during that time. Have a go if you think you're smart enough...

    Also see What are the best books on or set in the second world war

May 2014

  • Ivan Goncharov

    10 overlooked novels: how many have you read?

    A hilarious romance by a precocious nine-year-old. The fantasies of a septuagenarian foot fetishist. An aristocrat's life spent doing nothing on a sofa. John Sutherland choses little-known books that deserve to be treasured

December 2012

  • Observer New Review Obituaries

    Obituaries of 2012
    Obituaries of 2012 – in pictures

    Portraits of some of the giants of culture and politics who passed away this year

September 2012

  • Nina Bawden

    Letter: 'Writers steal bits of you and we can't help it,' Nina Bawden admitted

    Mike Shaw writes: "[Nina Bawden] once said to me that all writers should be preceded by a figure ringing a bell, shouting "unclean, unclean"

August 2012

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    Nina Bawden's Carrie's War speaks a truth about the ripple effects of conflict

    Ros Wynne-Jones
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    Nina Bawden obituary

  • Nina Bawden

    Children's books
    Nina Bawden, author of Carrie's War, dies aged 87

  • Nina Bawden

    Nina Bawden, author of Carrie's War, dies aged 87

April 2010

  • Nina Bawden

    Books blog
    Looking back at the Lost Booker: Nina Bawden

    Sam Jordison: My first look at the contenders for the Lost Booker prize examines a classic 'Hampstead novel', Birds on the Trees

June 2009

  • Carrie's War at the Apollo Theatre, London

    What to say about
    What to say about ... Carrie's War

    This adaptation of Nina Bawden's novel turned some critics all warm and nostalgic, but is it better than the book?

November 2006

  • Nina Bawden

    Nina Bawden, Author, 81, London

June 2006

  • History in the making

    The stylish prose and neat anecdotes of Peter Owen's Secret Protocols enliven a 'final' book, says Nina Bawden.

May 2006

  • £1m for Potters Bar victim

    The novelist Nina Bawden has settled for compensation of nearly £1m from the railway industry over the Potters Bar train crash, in which her husband was killed and she was seriously injured.

March 2005

  • Dear Austen extract: 'I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor'

    2005: Seven people were killed in the Potters Bar rail crash in 2002, among them Austen Kark, husband of Nina Bawden, who was herself seriously injured. In her powerful new book addressed to Austen, she recalls the bitter aftermath of the disaster

November 2003

  • Nina Bawden

    Nina's wars

    A wartime evacuee, Nina Bawden wanted to be a journalist but turned to fiction. Alternating between work for adults and children, she wrote more than 40 books. Last year, her husband was killed in the Potters Bar rail crash and she was badly injured. Now, aged 78, she has begun a book drawing on that tragedy

April 2003

  • A life of love ripped apart by Potters Bar

    A year on, filmmaker Roger Graef hears how writer Nina Bawden recovered from the physical and emotional scars of the train crash that killed her husband - and how the experience has fired her fury

December 2002

  • Rail crash widow demands death charge

    Novelist Nina Bawden, whose husband was killed in the Potters Bar train crash, yesterday accused the government of not making the railways a priority and called for corporate manslaughter charges to be brought against those responsible for the accident.
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