BOOK ONE IN THE CUMBRIAN TRILOGY 'An intensely moving, deeply worked book' Sunday Telegraph 'Extraordinary' The Times Set in Cumbria and covering the period from 1898 to the early twenties, this is the powerful saga of John Tallentire, fir
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BOOK ONE IN THE CUMBRIAN TRILOGY 'An intensely moving, deeply worked book' Sunday Telegraph 'Extraordinary' The Times Set in Cumbria and covering the period from 1898 to the early twenties, this is the powerful saga of John Tallentire, fir
BOOK ONE IN THE CUMBRIAN TRILOGY 'An intensely moving, deeply worked book' Sunday Telegraph 'Extraordinary' The Times 'A magnificently strong and sinewy novel' Sunday Mirror In rural Cumbria at the turn of the nineteenth century, J
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 an
'A gripping saga of great passion' The Times 'As splendid a ripping yarn as any of the best classics' Daily Telegraph 'I loved it . . . [a] stately, seething, passionate epic' Literary Review Britain during the Dark Ages is the set
'It is all rather irresistible . . . the book ripples with warmth' The Times 'Poignant and lyrical' Spectator ' Another World attractively maps out the stage in his odyssey between humble pub and broadcasting glory ' Daily Telegrap