Josh Lawton

A novel by beloved national treasure Melvyn Bragg

Häftad, Engelska, 1989

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'Brilliant' Daily Telegraph'The book is exciting . . . a pleasure to be remembered'Financial TimesAt once a love story and a portrayal of innocence brutally curtailed, Josh Lawton charts the rites of passage of a young Cumbrian farm worker and keen fell runner - an exceptionally good man whose very integrity proves his undoing.'With this novel, Melvyn Bragg has established his place in English letters to the extent that his Cumbria is as potent a literary region as Hardy's Wessex, Lawrence's Midlands and Housman's Shropshire' New Statesman

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1989-03-01
Mått130 x 198 x 26 mm
Vikt165 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor224
Upplaga2
FörlagHodder & Stoughton
ISBN9780340494806

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Melvyn Bragg is a writer and broadcaster whose first novel, For Want of a Nail, was published in 1965. His novels since include The Maid of Buttermere, The Soldier's Return, A Son of War, Credo and Now is the Time, which won the Parliamentary Book Award for fiction in 2016. His books have also been awarded the Time/Life Silver Pen Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the WHSmith Literary Award, and have been longlisted three times for the Booker Prize (including the Lost Man Booker Prize). He has also written several works of non-fiction, including The Adventure of English and The Book of Books about the King James Bible. He lives in London and Cumbria.