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12 Books That Changed the World by Melvyn Bragg
27.99 NZD
Category: History
When 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 importance that have taken place not on the battlefield, or in the palaces of power, or even in the violence ...Show more
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
49.99 NZD
Category: Essays
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
A Son of War by Melvyn Bragg
24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
The upheavals of World War II reverberated in the peace that followed, and many found a return to the old life more difficult than they had thought. Like Sam Richardson, who was determined to break free of the constraints of his background and leave Cumbria for the promised land of Australia.
Credo by Melvyn Bragg
27.99 NZD
32.95 (15% off)
Category: Fiction
Set in the 7th century, an epic novel about the historical figure St Bega, an Irish Princess, which brings Britain during the Dark Ages dramatically to life.
Crossing the Lines by Melvyn Bragg
34.99 NZD
36.95 (5% off)
Category: Fiction
The story of Joe from the end of A Son of War, aged 16 (1955), through to the end of his first year at Oxford (1959), crossing the lines between childhood and adulthood as well as crossing from working class small town Wigton to cosmpolitan, rarified Oxford and all that promises for the future. The main ...Show more
Crossing the Lines by Melvyn Bragg
27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Set 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 Richardson falls in love with Rachel, just when her life is about to be uprooted. While his parents, Sa ...Show more
Grace and Mary by Melvyn Bragg
39.99 NZD
Category: General 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
In Our Time by Melvyn Bragg
34.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
Melvyn 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, and takes us on an amazing tour through the history of ideas, from philosophy, physics and history to re ...Show more
In Our Time by Melvyn Bragg (ed.)
39.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: good-very good
Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time series regularly entertains and fascinates substantial audiences on BBC Radio 4. For this book he has selected episodes which reflect the diversity of the radio programmes, and take us on an amazing tour through the history of ideas, from philosophy, science and history to pol ...Show more
Love Without End a Story of Heloise and Abelard by Melvyn Bragg
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
A classic love story, retold for our times. Heloise, a young scholar reputed to be the cleverest woman in 12th-century France, arrives in Paris set on entering the city's masculine world of learning. Frustrated in her wishes, she is stunned when the brilliant, radical philosopher, Peter Abelard, consen ...Show more
Now is the Time by Melvyn Bragg
27.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
In 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 plague had returned, the royal coffers were empty and a draconian poll tax was being widely evaded. Y ...Show more