A well-researched and thoughtfully written biography of Richard Burton.
Melvyn Bragg Libros
6 de octubre de 1939
Melvyn Bragg es un prolífico autor inglés, quizás más reconocido por su trabajo en el programa The South Bank Show. Es un escritor versátil que ha contribuido con novelas, obras de no ficción y guiones, a menudo colaborando en dramas biográficos. Su escritura explora temas vinculados a las artes y la cultura, reflejando su amplio compromiso con estas áreas. Muchas de sus narrativas se basan en la experiencia personal, como se ve en su novela autobiográfica de 2008.
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'A vivid and totally original imagination' Scotsman
The Adventure Of English
- 368 páginas
- 13 horas de lectura
Reissued to celebrate Sceptre's 30th anniversary: Melvyn Bragg's bestselling biography of the English language, featuring a new afterword by the author.
Melvyn Bragg's first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria, which lyrically evokes a vanished world.
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.
A fascinating insight to a selection of the show's best episodes, published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the popular Radio 4 programme.
Crossing The Lines
- 490 páginas
- 18 horas de lectura
The much-praised third part of 'a monumental series' (Sunday Times) by an 'aristocrat of English fiction' (Sunday Telegraph)
A Place in England
- 256 páginas
- 9 horas de lectura
The second novel in Melvyn Bragg's brilliant and evocative Tallentire trilogy schovat popis
Since Postmortem garnered critical acclaim and a record-breaking five awards for a first crime novel, the Scarpetta novels have often been imitated, but never bettered. Against her own judgement and the advice of Benton Wesley and her niece, Lucy, Scarpetta agrees to return to Virginia as a consultant pathologist on a case involving the death of a fourteen-year-old girl. Accompanied by Pete Marino she finds the once familiar territory of her morgue and her department much changed, and the new Chief Medical Examiner treats her with disdain despite the obvious fact that he is in desperate need of her expertise. But professional as ever, she re-examines the evidence and proves the girl was murdered. She also finds trace evidence which matches that found on an accident victim and at the scene where one of Lucy's operatives was attacked. It is not only a forensic puzzle, but opens up the probability that someone is after those closest to Scarpetta. Visit the author's website at www.patriciacornwell.com
