Book description
Melvyn Bragg's highly-acclaimed bestselling historical novel, the story
behind one of the 19th century's greatest scandals.
Set in the Lake District in the early 19th century, the riveting story
of an imposter, bigamist and fortune hunter who came to grief by falling
helplessly in love with the famed 'Maid of Buttermere'.
'A vivid and erudite tour de force'
Penelope Lively
Price:£6. 99
Edition:Re-issue
Format 129 mm x 198 mm
Imprint:Sceptre
Markets: BCN inc can
Melvyn Bragg has written fourteen novels as well as several works of
non-fiction, including a bestseliing biography of Richard Burton. He is
editor and presenterof The South Bank Show.
BIRTHPLACE: Wigton, Cumbria
WHEREABOUTS: London and Cumbria
PREVIOUS BOOKS: AUTUMN MANOEUVRES, CRYSTAL ROOMS, FOR WANT OF A NAIL,
JOSH LAWTON, A TIME TO DANCE, THE NERVE, THE SECOND INHERITANCE, THE
SILKEN NET, WITHOUT A CITY WALL, THE HIRED MAN, A PLACE IN ENGLAND and
KINGDOM COME (all Sceptre)
THE PROMOTION
*Review copies to be sent to national and regional press, magazines, TV
and radio
SELLING POINTS
(1)Newly-jacketed edition of one of Bragg's most popular and
critically-acclaimed novels.
(2) The re-issue will be part of the Sceptre promotion.
(3) Film option sold.
(4) Sales over 130,000. Melvyn Bragg's first novel, FOR WANT OF A
NAIL, was published in 1965 and since then his novels have included THE
HIRED MAN, for which he won the Time/Life Silver Pen Award, WITHOUT A
CITY WALL, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, CREDO, THE MAID OF
BUTTERMERE and THE SOLDIER'S RETURN, which was published to huge
critical acclaim in 1999 and won the WHSmith Literary Award. He has also
written several works of non-fiction including SPEAK FOR ENGLAND, an
oral history of the twentieth century, RICH, a biography of Richard
Burton, ON GIANTS' SHOULDERS, a history of science based on his BBC
radio series, THE ADVENTURE OF ENGLISH, 12 BOOKS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD,
IN OUR TIME and THE SOUTH BANK SHOW: FINAL CUT. He was born in 1939 and
educated at Wigton's Nelson Thomlinson School and at Oxford where he
read history. He is President of the National Campaign for the Arts, and
in 1998 he was made a life peer. He won an Academy Fellowship at the
BAFTA Television Awards in 2010.
