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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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
For Want of a Nail by Melvyn Bragg
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.05'A strikingly taut and intense first novel' London Review of BooksGrowing up in an isolated cottage in the hills of Cumberland, Tom knows the bitter cold of shooting expeditions with his grandfather... -
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... -
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... -
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,... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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:... -
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... -
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... -
Without a City Wall by Melvyn Bragg
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.05Winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys PrizeDisillusioned with his successful life in London, Richard Godwin moves to a remote Cumberland village in search of a more fulfilling existence. His arrival... -
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... -
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 Silken Net Melvyn Bragg 9780340553480
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A compelling story of passion, loyalty and the dangers of an obsessive relationship by the Booker Prize-longlisted and bestselling author Melvyn BraggHalf-French and with an agile, inquiring mind,... -
The Adventure Of English by Melvyn Bragg 9780340829936
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Melvyn Bragg's superb new history of the English language is told as an adventure story, and rightly so. There is much splendid intellectual firepower in this book.' Andrew Roberts, SpectatorEnglish... -
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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... -
In Our Time: The companion to the Radio 4 series by Melvyn Bragg 9780340977521
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time series regularly enlightens and entertains substantial audiences on BBC Radio 4. For this book he has selected episodes which reflect the diversity of the radio programmes,... -
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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,... -
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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... -
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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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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... -
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,... -
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... -
Another World: The Oxford Years by Melvyn Bragg 9781399755429
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.50'An effortless writer'Sunday Times'A poignant read about awakening ambition'The i paperHaving won a scholarship to Oxford University, eighteen-year-old Melvyn Bragg leaves his hometown of Wigton to... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
12 Books That Changed The World: How words and wisdom have shaped our lives by Melvyn Bragg
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26When 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... -
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,... -
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... -
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,...