Libri z_Archivio Beryl Bainbridge, Mordant Novelist, Is Dead at 77 fmura Luglio 5, 2010 The novelist Beryl Bainbridge in London in 2001Beryl Bainbridge, whose sparely written, mordant novels, often with a dark comic edge, made her one of the most distinctive and admired voices in postwar British fiction, died on Thursday in London. She was 77.