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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.




23 Ebooks von Melvyn Bragg

Melvyn Bragg: William Tyndale
Part One: The History (What do we know?) This brief historical introduction to William Tyndale explores the social, political and religious factors that formed the original context of his life and wr …
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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 …
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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 & 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 …
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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: …
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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: Book of Books
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Melvyn Bragg: Remember Me…
‚Melvyn Bragg has added another formidable chapter to one of the most distinguished literary series of recent times‘ David Robson, Sunday Telegraph It was not love at first sight. It proved to be not …
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Melvyn Bragg: Place in England
Joseph Tallantire has hope and ambition – like his father before him he is determined to make something of himself and improve his lot. But life is not easy for an uneducated young man in Cumberland …
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Melvyn Bragg: Kingdom Come
Douglas Tallentire has at last achieved what his father and grandfather before him fought for so bitterly. Educated and independent, he can carve out his own career and spread his wings. But success, …
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Melvyn Bragg: Silken Net
A compelling story of passion, loyalty and the dangers of an obsessive relationship by the Booker Prize-longlisted and bestselling author Melvyn Bragg Half-French and with an agile, inquiring mind, …
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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 …
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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 …
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Melvyn Bragg: Soldier’s Return
‚Unsentimental, truthful and wonderful‘ Independent Books of the Year When Sam Richardson returns in 1946 from the ‚Forgotten War‘ in Burma to Wigton in Cumbria, he finds the town little changed. But …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Bragg 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
‚With this novel, Melvyn Bragg has established his place in English letters to the extent that his Cumbria is as potent a literary region as Hardy’s Wessex, Lawrence’s Midlands and Housman’s …
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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 vividly evokes a vanished world.’The best thing he’s ever written . . . What a world he …
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Melvyn Bragg: Second Inheritance
‚A novel which has something to say and which says it well and truthfully‘ Evening Standard In the shadow of Hadrian’s Wall, two young men chafe at the constraints of rural life and yearn to break …
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