Melvyn Bragg is a writer and broadcaster. His novels include The Hired Man, for which he won the Time/Life Silver Pen Award, Without a City Wall, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, The Soldier »s Return, winner of the W H Smith Literary Award, A Son of War and Crossing the Lines, both of which were longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and most recently Grace and Mary and Now is the Time. He has also written several works of non-fiction, including The Book of Books, In Our Time, The Adventure of English and 12 Books that Changed the World. He lives in London and Cumbria.
33 Ebooks par Melvyn Bragg
Melvyn Bragg: William Tyndale
‘An enjoyably pacey read.’ Times Literary Supplement ‘Eloquent… brilliant and very moving.’ Paul Cartledge, Emeritus Professor of Greek culture, University of Cambridge ‘On the morning of 6 October …
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Melvyn Bragg: 12 Books That Changed The World
When we think of great events in the history of the world, we tend to think of war, revolution, political upheaval or natural catastrophe. But throughout history there have been moments of vital impo …
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Melvyn Bragg: Adventure Of English
‘Superb’Spectator’Consistently entertaining’Independent’Impressive and sage’New Statesman’Bragg’s affection for his subject is infectious’Observer English is the collective work of millions of people …
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Melvyn Bragg: Without a City Wall
Winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize Disillusioned with his successful life in London, Richard Godwin moves to a remote Cumberland village in search of a more fulfilling existence. His arrival coi …
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Melvyn Bragg: Autumn Manoeuvres
Jimmie Johnston first became a Labour MP in Cumbria when there was a brave new post-war world to build. Now, in the late 70s, another general election looms but he is no longer so optimistic. And as …
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Melvyn Bragg: Nerve
One August bank holiday, Ted Johnson wakes to a day of reckoning – with his past in Cumberland, his present in London and his fantasies. An inflamed nerve troubles his eye as he veers between elation …
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Melvyn Bragg: For Want of a Nail
‘A strikingly taut and intense first novel’ London Review of Books Growing up in an isolated cottage in the hills of Cumberland, Tom knows the bitter cold of shooting expeditions with his grandfather …
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Melvyn Bragg: Rich: The Life of Richard Burton
Richard Burton: star. The roaring boy from the Welsh coal valleys who came to sport on the banks of the old Nile, playing great Antony to Elizabeth Taylor’s Cleopatra. From the West End to Hollywood, …
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Melvyn Bragg & Simon Tillotson: In Our Time
Bragg gives short shrift to pretension of any kind, while remaining stalwart in his search for knowledge. His methodology in In Our Timeis… not unlike that of a man throwing a stick at a dog: he ch …
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Melvyn Bragg: Now is the Time
In this gripping novel, Melvyn Bragg brings an extraordinary episode in English history to fresh, urgent life.At the end of May 1381, the fourteen-year-old King of England had reason to be fearful: t …
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Melvyn Bragg: Love Without End
‘Melvyn Bragg’s account of the passionate and painful love affair between the 12th century radical theologian, Peter Abelard, and the brilliant young convent-educated Eloise springs magnificently to …
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Melvyn Bragg: Remember Me…
THE FINAL NOVEL IN ‘ONE OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED LITERARY SERIES IN RECENT TIMES’ (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)’Eclipses anything Bragg has written before’Daily Mirror’Utterly absorbing’Scotsman’A terrific boo …
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Melvyn Bragg: Hired Man
BOOK ONE IN THE CUMBRIAN TRILOGY’An intensely moving, deeply worked book’Sunday Telegraph’Extraordinary’The Times Set in Cumbria and covering the period from 1898 to the early twenties, this is the p …
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Melvyn Bragg: Place in England
BOOK TWO IN THE CUMBRIAN TRILOGY’Masterly’Daily Telegraph’A graceful and confident writer’Observer’Joseph Tallantire has hope and ambition – like his father before him he is determined to make someth …
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Melvyn Bragg: Kingdom Come
BOOK THREE IN THE CUMBRIAN TRILOGY’An uncommonly high talent’Guardian’An ambitious, panoramic novel’Daily Telegraph Douglas Tallentire has at last achieved what his father and grandfather before him …
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Melvyn Bragg: Silken Net
‘Rosemary is an outstanding creation’ Sunday Telegraph’Bragg writes with a timelessness’Financial Times Half-French and with an agile, inquiring mind, Rosemary Lewis cannot help being out of the ordi …
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Melvyn Bragg: Maid of Buttermere
‘This is historical fiction with a human face’Peter Ackroyd, The Times’A vivid and erudite tour de force’Penelope Lively, Booker Prize-winning author of Moon Tiger’A skilled, ornate and convincing ex …
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Melvyn Bragg: Time To Dance
A lifetime of restraint and placid affection erupts when a retired bank manager falls for a youngh girl. Set in Cumbria, this is an intensely moving evocation of an overwhelming passion and its destr …
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Melvyn Bragg: Crystal Rooms
Young Harry, an orphan from an impoverished council estate, becomes the link between starkly contrasting worlds: north and south, the deprived and the over-privileged, the powerful and the defenceles …
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Melvyn Bragg: Credo
‘A gripping saga of great passion’The Times’As splendid a ripping yarn as any of the best classics’Daily Telegraph’I loved it . . . [a] stately, seething, passionate epic’Literary Review Britain duri …
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Melvyn Bragg: Soldier’s Return
THE FIRST NOVEL IN ‘ONE OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED LITERARY SERIES IN RECENT TIMES’ (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)’His masterpiece’Sunday Times’Outstandingly good’Scotsman’A great achievement’Observer When Sam Ri …
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Melvyn Bragg: Son of War
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZETHE SECOND NOVEL IN ‘ONE OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED LITERARY SERIES IN RECENT TIMES’ (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)’A novel of remarkable power and grace . . . astounding’The Times’ …
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Melvyn Bragg: Crossing The Lines
Set in Britain during the 1950s, this moving and evocative novel follows the intertwined fates of people crossing boundaries in their lives. As a teenager in the small northern town of Wigton, Joe Ri …
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Various & Philip Ardagh: Love Letter to Europe
How are great turning points in history experienced by individuals?As Britain pulls away from Europe great British writers come together to give voice to their innermost feelings. These writers inclu …
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Melvyn Bragg: Crossing the Lines
Following The Soldiers Return, heralded as a novel written in fine steel sentences and granite paragraphs by the Washington Post, and the equally brilliant A Son of War, Melvyn Bragg brings one of th …
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Melvyn Bragg: Son of War
A Son of War presents Melvyn Braggs second installment in what the Sunday Telegraph calls one of the finest literary sagas of postwar Britain. Continuing the story of the Richardson family begun in t …
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Melvyn Bragg: Seventh Seal
The Seventh Seal is probably Bergman’s best-known work and the film that most clearly bears the director’s unmistakeable signature. The opening scene sets the tone: a stony beach under a leaden sky, …
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Melvyn Bragg: Josh Lawton
‘Brilliant’ Daily Telegraph’The book is exciting . . . a pleasure to be remembered’Financial Times At once a love story and a portrayal of innocence brutally curtailed, Josh Lawton charts the rites o …
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Melvyn Bragg: Back in the Day
Melvyn Bragg’s first ever memoir – an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria, which lyrically evokes a vanished world.’The best thing he’s ever written . . . I loved it’Observer’ …
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Melvyn Bragg: Second Inheritance
‘The effect of the book is massive . . . loving, deep and perceptive’Sunday Times’Bragg has a very sure touch with his characters: they live’Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange In the shado …
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Peter Hennessy & Robert Shepherd: Complete Reflections
On the BBC radio show Reflections with Peter Hennessy, the preeminent historian of British political life interviewed leading figures from the UK’s governing parties during the late twentieth and ear …
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Melvyn Bragg: Seventh Seal
The Seventh Seal is probably Bergman’s best-known work and the film that most clearly bears the director’s unmistakeable signature. The opening scene sets the tone: a stony beach under a leaden sky, …
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