19th century england
A01=Melvyn Bragg
Author_Melvyn Bragg
based on a true story
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Bring up the bodies
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Hamnet
Hilary Mantel
historical fiction
historical fiction set in cumbria
historical fiction set in england
jane austen
Ken Follett
Lake District
love story
Maggie O'Farrell
nineteenth century
novels set in cumbria
novels set in the 19th century
Regional history
Robert Harris
romance
The Marriage Portrait
Wolf Hall
Product details
- ISBN 9780340423738
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 134 x 197mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1993
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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'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 examination of a nineteenth-century scandal in Bragg's own Cumbria'
Thomas Keneally, Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler's Ark
Set in the Lake District in the early nineteenth century, this is a riveting story of love and deception, and a scandal that shook the entire nation.
Melvyn Bragg was born in Wigton, Cumbria, in 1939. He went to the local Grammar School and then to Wadham College, Oxford. He joined the BBC in 1961, and published his first novel, For Want of a Nail, in 1965.
He left the BBC and continued to write novels which include The Soldier's Return (WH Smith Literary Award), Without a City Wall (Mail on Sunday John Llewellyn Rhys Prize) and Now Is the Time (Parliamentary Book Award 2016). A Place in England, Son of War and Crossing the Lines were all nominated for the Booker Prize. His non-fiction includes The Adventure of English and The Book of Books, and his first memoir, Back in the Day, was published in 2022 to critical acclaim.
He edited and presented The South Bank Show from 1977 and hosted the BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time from 1998. He has now retired from both. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society and of The British Academy. He was given a Peerage in 1998 and a Companion of Honour in 2017.
