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A Love Letter to Europe - An Outpouring of Love and Sadness from Our Writers, Thinkers and Artists by Melvyn Bragg; Simon Callow; Tracey Emin; Pete Townshend; Jeffrey Boakye; Onjali Rauf; Tony Robinson; Will Hutton; Margaret Drabble
$40.00 AUD
Category: European
Great writers, artists, musicians and thinkers in British life say what Europe means to them: an outpouring of love and sadness. With pieces from Frank Cottrell Boyce, Melvyn Bragg, Margaret Drabble, Alan Hollinghurst, Will Hutton, Holly Johnson, Penelope Lively, Jonathan Meades, Deborah Moggach, Alan M ...Show more
Back in the Day: Melvyn Bragg's deeply affecting, first ever memoir by Melvyn Bragg
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
* AN OBSERVER AND DAILY MAIL BOOKS OF 2022 PICK *Melvyn Bragg's first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria, which lyrically evokes a vanished world. In this captivating memoir, Melvyn Bragg recalls growing up in the Cumbrian market town of Wigton, from his ear ...Show more
Grace and Mary by Melvyn Bragg
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Reaching 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 was forced to give up. Unsung heroines according to Mary's son who, as his elderly mother's mind begins to ...Show more
Grace and Mary by Melvyn Bragg
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
John visits his ageing mother Mary in her nursing home by the sea, and mourns the slow fading of her mind. Hoping to shore up her memory, he prompts her with songs, photographs and questions about the 1940s, when she was a young woman and he a child in a small Cumbrian town. But he finds that most of al ...Show more
Now is the Time by Melvyn Bragg
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
At the end of May 1381, the fourteen-year-old King of England had reason to be fearful: the plague had returned, the royal coffers were empty and a draconian Poll Tax was being widely evaded. Yet Richard, bolstered by his powerful, admired mother, felt secure in his God-given right to reign. Within two ...Show more
On Giants' Shoulders by Melvyn Bragg
$27.95 AUD
Category: Science
Published to tie-in with BBC Radio 4 series, the story of science unfolds in this account of the lives and discoveries of twelve of its greatest figures, from Archimedes to Crick and Watson. Exploring their impact and legacy with leading scientists of today, Bragg conveys the excitement and importance o ...Show more
Remember Me... by Melvyn Bragg
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It was not love at first sight. It proved to be not much of a conversation! Nothing should have come of it. A 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 early stages, the relati ...Show more
The Adventure of English by Melvyn Bragg
$25.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
English is the collective work of millions of people throughout the ages. It is democratic, ever-changing and ingenious in its assimilation of other cultures. English runs through the heart of world finance, medicine and the Internet, and it is understood by around two thousand million people across the ...Show more
The Book of Books: The Radical Impact of the King James Bible 1611-2011 by Melvyn Bragg
$35.00 AUD
Category: Reference
The 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, had the greatest impact. The King James Bible has spread the Protestant faith. It has also been the grea ...Show more
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