Summary
Autumn Manoeuvres: A Portrait of a Nation on the Brink
Jimmie Johnston, a Labour MP in Cumbria, once entered politics with dreams of building a brave new post-war world. Now, in the late 70s, as another general election looms, his optimism has waned.
As he battles to retain his seat, Jimmie faces challenges on all fronts: his family begins to fracture, and scandal threatens to derail everything he’s worked for.
In this absorbing and fast-paced novel, Melvyn Bragg pai…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780340518564 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0340518561 |
| Author: | Melvyn Bragg |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Sceptre |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 31 December 1992 |
| Weight: | 212g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 131mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
‘Very good, very pleasurable and very authentic…an extremely well-timed book’
Melvyn Bragg is quite simply one of the best writers we have - Sunday Telegraph
A gripping novel…there is a demonic streak in Bragg’s imagination, something excitingly macabre - ListenerVery good, very pleasurable and very authentic…an extremely well-timed book - Anthony HowardThere are certain writers - Lawrence, Hardy, Bennett - whose novels seem to grow from the very soil that nurtured them. Melvyn Bragg is one of them: his characters’ roots are firmly in Cumbria…The writing and characterisation are powerful - Daily TelegraphAbout The Author
Melvyn Bragg
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, THE SOLDIER’S RETURN, which won the WHSmith Literary Award, and A SON OF WAR and CROSSING THE LINES, both of which were longlisted for the Booker Prize, and his most recent novel REMEMBER ME… He has also written several works of non-fiction including THE ADVENTURE OF ENGLISH and 12 BOOKS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD.
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