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12 Books That Changed The World: How words and wisdom have shaped our lives - Softcover

Bragg, Melvyn

 
9780340839829: 12 Books That Changed The World: How words and wisdom have shaped our lives
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0340839821 ISBN 13: 9780340839829
Verlag: Sceptre, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Melvyn Bragg explores a fascinating selection of British books and their huge impact on history

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Melvyn Bragg was born in Wigton, Cumbria, in 1939. He went to the local Grammar School and then to Wadham College, Oxford. He joined the BBC in 1961, and published his first novel, For Want of a Nail, in 1965.
He left the BBC and continued to write novels which include The Soldier's Return (WH Smith Literary Award), Without a City Wall (Mail on Sunday John Llewellyn Rhys Prize) and Now Is the Time (Parliamentary Book Award 2016). A Place in England, Son of War and Crossing the Lines were all nominated for the Booker Prize. His non-fiction includes The Adventure of English and The Book of Books, and his first memoir, Back in the Day, was published in 2022 to critical acclaim.
He edited and presented The South Bank Show from 1977 and hosted the BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time from 1998. He has now retired from both. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society and of The British Academy. He was given a Peerage in 1998 and a Companion of Honour in 2017.

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Verlag
Sceptre
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0340839821
ISBN 13 
9780340839829
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
384
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Hachette Ireland
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