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Credo by Melvyn Bragg
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.64Britain during the Dark Ages is the setting for the fascinating story of Bega, a young Irish princess who became a saint, and her lifelong bond with Padric, prince of the north-western kingdom of... -
Crossing The Lines by Melvyn Bragg
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Set 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... -
Kingdom Come by Melvyn Bragg
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Douglas 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... -
The Second Inheritance by Melvyn Bragg
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'A novel which has something to say and which says it well and truthfully' Evening StandardIn the shadow of Hadrian's Wall, two young men chafe at the constraints of rural life and yearn to break... -
The Soldier's Return by Melvyn Bragg
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02When Sam Richardson returns in 1946 from the 'Forgotten War' in Burma to Wigton in Cumbria, he finds the town little changed. But the war has changed him, broadening his horizons as well as leaving... -
Remember Me... by Melvyn Bragg
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'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... -
A Son of War by Melvyn Bragg
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.62Longlisted for the Booker Prize After the upheavals of the Second World War, the Richardson family - Sam, Ellen and their young son Joe - settle back to working-class life in the Cumbrian town of... -
The Maid of Buttermere by Melvyn Bragg
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Melvyn Bragg's highly acclaimed, bestselling historical novel, the story behind one of the 19th century's greatest scandals.'This is the story of an impostor and bigamist, a self-styled Colonel Hope,... -
Josh Lawton by Melvyn Bragg
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'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... -
Autumn Manoeuvres by Melvyn Bragg
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Jimmie 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... -
The Hired Man by Melvyn Bragg
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Set in Cumbria and covering the period from 1898 to the early twenties, this is the powerful saga of John Tallentire, first farm labourer, then coal miner, and his wife Emily. John's struggle to... -
A Place in England by Melvyn Bragg
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Joseph 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... -
Back in the Day: Melvyn Bragg's deeply affecting, first ever memoir Melvyn Bragg 9781529394498
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Melvyn 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... -
Now is the Time Melvyn Bragg 9781473614550
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In 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:... -
Grace and Mary Melvyn Bragg 9781444762372
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Reaching from late 19th-century Cumbria to the present, this elegiac novel celebrates two spirited women: Grace, a farm labourer's daughter who fatefully followed her heart, and Mary, the child she... -
The Seventh Seal by Lord Melvyn Bragg
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.72The 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... -
The Soldier's Return by Melvyn Bragg 9780340751015
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Unsentimental, truthful and wonderful' Beryl Bainbridge, 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... -
The Hired Man by Melvyn Bragg 9781399756051
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02BOOK ONE IN THE CUMBRIAN TRILOGY'An intensely moving, deeply worked book'Sunday Telegraph'Extraordinary'The Times'A magnificently strong and sinewy novel' Sunday MirrorIn rural Cumbria at the turn of... -
Kingdom Come by Melvyn Bragg 9781399756044
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02BOOK THREE IN THE CUMBRIAN TRILOGY'An uncommonly high talent'Guardian'An ambitious, panoramic novel'Daily TelegraphDouglas Tallentire has at last attained the freedom his father and grandfather... -
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Credo by Melvyn Bragg 9780340667064 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.40Britain during the Dark Ages is the setting for the fascinating story of Bega, a young Irish princess who became a saint, and her lifelong bond with Padric, prince of the north-western kingdom of... -
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Crossing The Lines by Melvyn Bragg 9780340829677 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.40Set 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... -
![The Maid of Buttermere by Melvyn Bragg 9780340423738 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9647546/10664266/9780340423738__48769.1781270818.jpg?c=1 "The Maid of Buttermere by Melvyn Bragg 9780340423738 [USED COPY]")
The Maid of Buttermere by Melvyn Bragg 9780340423738 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.40'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... -
![Time To Dance by Melvyn Bragg 9780340551196 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9665405/10682125/9780340551196__20848.1781288282.jpg?c=1 "Time To Dance by Melvyn Bragg 9780340551196 [USED COPY]")
Time To Dance by Melvyn Bragg 9780340551196 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.76A lifetime of restraint and placid affection erupts when a retired bank manager falls for a young girl, as far removed from him in background and experience as in age. Set in Cumbria, this is an... -
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The Soldier's Return by Melvyn Bragg 9780340751015 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.97'Unsentimental, truthful and wonderful' Beryl Bainbridge, 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... -
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Remember Me... by Melvyn Bragg 9780340951217 [USED COPY]
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £2.49A passionate but ultimately tragic love affair starts when two students - one French, one English - meet at university at the beginning of the sixties. From its tentative, unpromising early stages,... -
Rich: The Life of Richard Burton Melvyn Bragg 9781444789164
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Richard 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,... -
The South Bank Show: Final Cut Melvyn Bragg 9781444705539
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26What drives a musician to write extraordinary songs? How do writers create their worlds? How does an actor achieve greatness? For over thirty years of The South Bank Show, Melvyn Bragg has... -
William Tyndale: A Very Brief History by Melvyn Bragg
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Part 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... -
A Place in England: Longlisted for the Lost Booker Prize by Melvyn Bragg 9781399756020
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02BOOK TWO IN THE CUMBRIAN TRILOGY'Masterly'Daily Telegraph'A graceful and confident writer'ObserverJust like his father before him, Joseph Tallantire is determined to make something of himself. But... -
Love Without End: A Story of Heloise and Abelard Melvyn Bragg 9781473690943
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'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... -
The Book of Books: The Radical Impact of the King James Bible Melvyn Bragg 9781444705164
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The King James Bible has often been called the Book of Books both in itself and in what it stands for. Since its publication in 1611 it has been the best selling book in the world, and many believe,... -
On Giants' Shoulders: Great Scientists and Their Discoveries from Archimedes to DNA by Melvyn Bragg
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The fascinating story of science unfolds in this account of the lives and extraordinary discoveries of twelve of its greatest figures - Archimedes, Galileo, Newton, Lavoisier, Faraday, Darwin,... -
In Our Time: Celebrating Twenty Years of Essential Conversation by Melvyn Bragg 9781471174483
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.68'Melvyn not only makes you think ... he makes it enjoyable too. He's brilliant.' - John Humphrys, the Today Programme. 'In a troubled world where many sneer at experts, In Our Time is always a treat... -
Love Without End: A Story of Heloise and Abelard Melvyn Bragg 9781473690929
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.45'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... -
A History of Ideas: The most intriguing, relevant and helpful concepts from the story of humanity by The School of Life
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £13.99A collection of humanity's most inspiring ideas throughout time, bringing perspective to the challenges and wonders of being alive. This is an unusual sort of history book: a history of ideas - and... -
Panic as Man Burns Crumpets: The Vanishing World of the Local Journalist Roger Lytollis 9781472145802
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02WINNER OF THE LAKELAND BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2022'For those who know about provincial newspapers, this will be a classic and a gem. Those who don't know will envy what they have missed' MELVYN... -
You’re All Talk: why we are what we speak by Rob Drummond 9781914484285
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.21'Telling and compelling' Susie Dent, author of Word Perfect 'Rob Drummond has achieved something very special in this book' David Crystal, author of How Language Works 'Intriguing and engaging'... -
Stuff by Joseph Connolly 9781782067030
Booksplease Price: £20.70A successful day for Emily - interior designer and total bitch - is throttling her husband Kevin and tormenting his best friend Raymond to their mutual satisfaction. A good day for Raymond is venting... -
Love is Strange by Joseph Connolly
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.77In the kitchen Gillian loads the Hotpoint and frets about letting her baby go. In the bathroom Clifford styles his hair like Cliff's and wishes for a television. In the front room Arthur smokes a... -
That's The Way It Crumbles: The American Conquest of the English Language Matthew Engel 9781781256695
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Are we tired of hearing that fall is a season, sick of being offered fries and told about the latest movie? Yeah. Have we noticed the sly interpolation of Americanisms into our everyday speech? You...