Melvyn Bragg, whose reputation as a novelist was established in the 1960s, has published eleven novels. In the 1970s his career as a Television Arts presenter also bloomed, and he has become a small-s...
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Melvyn Bragg has published seventeen novels since 1965, an achievement that would satisfy many writers. He has also published twelve nonfiction books, seven screenplays, and two stage plays. He has ed...
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Critical Essay by Victoria Glendinning
[The Silken Net] is a traditional novel of a particularly English kind. Words could be used linking Melvyn Bragg with Hardy, Lawrence and Bennett in the Grand C...
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Critical Essay by John Mellors
In his novels, Melvyn Bragg has always shown complete disregard for the 'modern' and the 'experimental' in fiction. He writes as if Joyce, V...
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Critical Essay by Clancy Sigal
Speak for England [an oral history of a small market town] has the flat, unpatronizing power of Bragg's Cumbrian novels, such as The Hired Man and A Place In Eng...
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London (dpa) - Britain, already on high security alert following
the failed car bombings in London and Glasgow ten days ago, has been
given a chilling warning over its decis...
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