{"product_id":"back-in-the-day-melvyn-braggs-deeply-affecting-first-ever-memoir-paperback","title":"Back in the Day: Melvyn Bragg's Deeply Affecting, First Ever Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMelvyn Bragg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMelvyn Bragg's first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria, which vividly evokes a vanished world.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The best thing he's ever written . . . What a world he captures here. You can almost smell it' Rachel Cooke, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Wonderfully rich, endearing and unusual . . . a balanced, honest picture' Richard Benson, \u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this elegiac and heartfelt memoir, Melvyn Bragg recreates his youth in the Cumbrian market town of Wigton: a working-class boy who expected to leave school at fifteen yet who gained a scholarship to Oxford University; who happily roamed the streets and raided orchards with his gang of friends until a breakdown in adolescence drove him to find refuge in books. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVividly evoking the post-war era, Bragg draws an indelible portrait of all that formed him: a community-spirited northern town, still steeped in the old ways; the Lake District landscapes that inspired him; and the many remarkable people in his close-knit world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A charming account of a lost era, full of details and often lyrical descriptions of people and places . . . fascinating and often moving' Christina Patterson, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMelvyn Bragg\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and broadcaster whose first novel, \u003ci\u003eFor Want of a Nail\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1965. His novels since include \u003ci\u003eThe Maid of Buttermere, The Soldier's Return\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Son of War, Credo \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNow is the Time\u003c\/i\u003e, 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). \u003cbr\u003eHe has also written several works of non-fiction, including \u003ci\u003eThe Adventure of English \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Books\u003c\/i\u003e about the King James Bible. \u003cbr\u003eHe lives in London and Cumbria.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.03 x 7.81 x 5.17 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 18, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772500377888,"sku":"9781529394498","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9145e65752247090226f65ffffb1eb32.webp?v=1780407107","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/back-in-the-day-melvyn-braggs-deeply-affecting-first-ever-memoir-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}