Kingdom Come by Melvyn Bragg - ISBN: 9780340770917
Paperback
Ambition clashes with reality: a family saga of freedom and pain.

Kingdom Come

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  • Paperback

    384 pages

  • Release Date

    15 January 2002

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Summary

Douglas Tallentire has at last achieved what his father and grandfather before him fought for so bitterly. Educated and independent, he can carve out his own career and spread his wings. But success, freedom and happiness are more elusive than ever in the fiercely competitive Seventies. From Cumbria to the frenetic whirl of sophisticated life in New York and London, Douglas, like all the Tallentires, must come to terms with private uncertainty and pain.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780340770917
ISBN-10:0340770910
Author:Melvyn Bragg
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:Sceptre
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:384
Release Date:15 January 2002
Weight:260g
Dimensions:197mm x 131mm x 24mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

‘Mr Bragg is one of the few British writers of talent with the courage to tackle an ambitious, panoramic novel’

An uncommonly high talent. The people are ‘real’ enough to leave footprints right across the page - Guardian

He emerges with stature at the end of his convincing contemporary novel on ‘the way we live now’ … the book shows range and vision … Bragg knows about the nuances of dialogue which differentiate character and can maintain nice dramatic irony - New Statesman

Mr Bragg is one of the few British writers of talent with the courage to tackle an ambitious, panoramic novel - Daily Telegraph

About The Author

Melvyn Bragg

Melvyn Bragg is the author of sixteen novels including the bestselling Credo and The Maid of Buttermere, and of several works of non-fiction including Speak for England, an oral history of the twentieth century, and Rich, a biography of Richard Burton. He was born in 1939 and educated at Wigton’s Nelson Tomlinson School and at Oxford where he read history. He is controller of Arts at LWT and President of the National Campaign for the Arts, and in 1998 he was made a life peer. He lives in London and Cumbria.

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