"Enthralling, a joy to read ... immensely satisfying, written with honesty and imagination ... [it] enriches the reader's life." - Allan Massie
Set in Britain during the 1950s, this moving and evocative novel follows the intertwined fates of people...
Melvyn Bragg's A Son of War begins where A Soldier's Return ended. The previous novel--a moving account of the struggles, social and psychological, faced by a Burma veteran returning to Cumbrian hometown life with his wife and six-year-old...
Like a photographer with his camera, John Berger uses words to capture moments: preserving them, denying their inherent transience. A passing encounter, an almost unnoticed gesture, a brief pause--Berger observes and transcribes them, and in so...