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Nina Bawden

Nina Bawden

  • 5 stars across 13 books
Nina Bawden is one of today's best writers for both adults and children. She has often used her own childhood experiences in her books - Carrie's War is set in the mining valley in Wales where she lived as an evacuee in wartime. She studied philosophy, politics and economics at Somerville College, Oxford and finished her first novel the year after she took her degree. She won the Guardian Award for Children's Fiction for The Peppermint Pig.
3rd July 2014

Carrie's War

A Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime. Puffin Modern Classics are relaunched under a new logo: A Puffin Book. Th... MoreCarrie's War

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31st January 1974

Carrie's War

Carrie's War by Nina Bawden is an unforgettable Second World War story.'I did a dreadful thing...or I feel that I did, a... MoreCarrie's War

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21st August 2008

The Secret Passage

Lonely and forlorn after their mother's death and their sudden arrival at Aunt Mabel's seaside boarding-house, John, Mar... MoreThe Secret Passage

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21st August 2008

The Runaway Summer

Deeply unhappy at the recent divorce of her parents, Mary is sent away to live by the sea with her distant grandfather a... MoreThe Runaway Summer

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22nd October 2008

The Outside Child

'I am an outside child. That is what Plato Jones calls me.'Jane Tucker is thirteen years old when she discovers she has ... MoreThe Outside Child

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22nd October 2008

On the Run

Ben, eleven years old and the youngest of the Mallory children, has left his aunt and siblings to come to London where h... MoreOn the Run

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22nd October 2008

A Handful of Thieves

Determined to find the ex-lodger who stole his grandmother's savings, Fred McAlpine and his friends Sid, Rosie, Algy and... MoreA Handful of Thieves

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1st June 2017

Keeping Henry

BY THE BELOVED AUTHOR OF CARRIE'S WAR AND THE PEPPERMINT PIG'A subtle and many-layered story, one of Nina Bawden's best... MoreKeeping Henry

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1st January 2011

Carrie's War

Carrie's War by Nina Bawden is an unforgettable Second World War story.'I did a dreadful thing...or I feel that I did, a... MoreCarrie's War

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