Melvyn Bragg's first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria, which lyrically evokes a vanished world.
Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg Book order
October 6, 1939
Melvyn Bragg is a prolific English author, perhaps most recognized for his work on The South Bank Show. He is a versatile writer, contributing novels, non-fiction works, and screenplays, often collaborating on biographical dramas. His writing explores themes connected to arts and culture, reflecting his broad engagement with these subjects. Many of his narratives draw from personal experience, as seen in his autobiographical novel from 2008.
- 2022
- 2019
Love Without End
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
A profoundly thought-provoking, moving novel that breathes fresh life into one of history's most remarkable and enduring love stories.
- 2017
Historical introduction to William Tyndale and his continuing influence on the world and how we see it.
- 2015
Now is the Time
- 368 pages
- 13 hours of reading
A thrilling fictional recreation of the biggest rebellion in English history - the so-called Peasants' Revolt.
- 2014
Grace and Mary
- 249 pages
- 9 hours of reading
By 'quite simply one of the best writers we have' (Sunday Telegraph), a profoundly moving story spanning three generations.
- 2014
The Adventure Of English
- 368 pages
- 13 hours of reading
Reissued to celebrate Sceptre's 30th anniversary: Melvyn Bragg's bestselling biography of the English language, featuring a new afterword by the author.
- 2011
A history of the English language traces its evolution from a Germanic dialect around 500 A.D. to its modern form, noting the influence of such groups and individuals as early Anglo-Saxon tribes, Alfred the Great, and William Shakespeare.
- 2011
The Book of Books
- 386 pages
- 14 hours of reading
The book of books reveals the extraordinary and still-felt impact of a work created 400 years ago. --from publisher description.
- 2011
The Seventh Seal
- 73 pages
- 3 hours of reading
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, the knight alone with his thoughts, then the approach of black-clad Death, whom the knight invites to play a game of chess. Bergman's medieval allegory of faith and doubt is dark with the horrors of witch-burnings and the plague. But it is also shot through with bright flashes of peace and joy, symbolised in the milk and wild strawberries offered to the knight by an innocent family of actors. In his compelling appreciation, Melvyn Bragg describes his own first encounter as a student with this extraordinary film, and how it revealed to him another cinema, quite different from the Hollywood he had grown up with. He recounts too his later meeting with Bergman himself, and how the marks of the director's powerful personality are everywhere in this troubling and inspiring masterpiece.
- 2010
A well-researched and thoughtfully written biography of Richard Burton.
