In Our Time - Hardcover

Melvyn Bragg

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0340977507 ISBN 13: 9780340977507

Publisher: Hodder, 2009

Synopsis

Unusual book

About this title

About the Author:

Melvyn Bragg is a writer and broadcaster. His novels include The Hired Man, for which he won the Time/Life Silver Pen Award, Without a City Wall, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, The Soldier's Return, winner of the WHSmith Literary Award, A Son of War and Crossing the Lines, both of which were longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, A Place in England, which was longlisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize, and most recently Grace and Mary. He has also written several works of non-fiction, including The Book of Books about the King James Bible. He lives in London and Cumbria.

Review:

IN OUR TIME's success derives in part from the interested public having Melvyn Bragg in their corner... his lack of intellectual vanity is impress, but so is his grasp of the subjects at hand. Times Literary Supplement These transcripts select a treasure-trove of discussions from a decade of the Radio 4 jewel. the Independent 'The best programme on Radio 4 is In Our Time...it informs, educates and entertains'. Sunday Telegraph Melvyn Bragg's matchless colloquies on Radio 4 Stephen Fry The best programme coming out of the entire corporation these days David Sexton, Sunday Telegraph Melvyn Bragg's consistently superb In Our Time John Banville What might be the best radio programme ever Oliver Burkeman, Guardian Bragg's excellent radio programmes on the subject ...are the basis of this history of English over the past 1,500 years. Guardian on The Adventure of English Always readable, often thought-provoking, and consistently entertaining. Independent on The Adventure of English This is a highly readable, jargon-free treatise on a notoriously prickly subject. Bragg's affection for his subject is infectious. Observer on

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0340977507
• ISBN 13: 9780340977507
• Binding: Hardcover