Editing Beryl Bainbridge (section)

===Final years===
In 2003, Bainbridge's grandson Charlie Russell began filming a documentary, ''Beryl's Last Year'', about her life. The documentary detailed her upbringing and her attempts to write a novel, ''Dear Brutus'' (which later became ''[[The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress]]''). It was broadcast in the United Kingdom on 2 June 2007 on [[BBC Four]].

In 2009, Bainbridge donated the short story ''Goodnight Children, Everywhere'' to Oxfam's [[Ox-Tales]] project, four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. Her story was published in the "Air" collection. Bainbridge was the patron of the People's Book Prize.

Bainbridge was still working on ''[[The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress]]'' at the time of her death. The novel, which was based on a real-life journey Bainbridge made across America in 1968, is about the mystery girl reputed to have been involved in the [[assassination of Robert Kennedy]]. The novel, which was published in May 2011 by [[Little, Brown]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/8494723/Beryl-Bainbridge-last-masterpiece-of-an-obsessive.html|title=Beryl Bainbridge last masterpiece of an obsessive|first=Lorna |last= Bradbury|newspaper=Daily Telegraph|date=7 May 2010|access-date=10 May 2011}}</ref> was edited for publication by Brendan King, whose biography ''Beryl Bainbridge: Love by All Sorts of Means'' was published in September 2016.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/beryl-bainbridge-9781472947338/|title=Beryl Bainbridge. Love by All Sorts of Means: A Biography|first=Brendan|last=King|publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing|Bloomsbury]]|date=24 February 2016|access-date=9 February 2023|archive-date=16 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170616220103/http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/beryl-bainbridge-9781472908537/|url-status=dead}}</ref>