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Crystal Rooms

Crystal Rooms

by Melvyn Bragg (Author), Melvyn Bragg (Author), Melvyn Bragg (Author)

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    Paperback 1993

    $3.27

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    Hardcover 1992

    $6.64
Synopsis

Young Harry, an orphan from an impoverished council estate, becomes the link between starkly contrasting worlds: north and south, the deprived and the over-privileged, the powerful and the defenceless. With this compelling story of blackmail, media politics, corrupted innocence and redemptive love, Melvyn Bragg delivers an unforgettable portrait of modern life.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 416
 Edition: 1st Sceptre Edition
 Publisher: Sceptre
Published: 03 Jun 1993
ISBN 10: 0340579765
ISBN 13: 9780340579763
Book Overview: 'A splendid Dickensian sweep of a book' Observer

Media Reviews
A splendid Dickensian sweep of a book * Observer *
A decent and intelligent novel, one which can be read, and will be read, with a great deal of pleasure * Allan Massie, Scotsman *
As a guide to media London, the novel is essential reading * T.J. Binyon, Times Literary Supplement *
The very good Bragg has forced a complex contemporary plot to work magic * David Hughes, Mail on Sunday *
Bragg has scarcely ever written better...A state of England message transfused by fiction * Tom Adair, Scotland on Sunday *
Melvyn Bragg writes with a lyrical nostalgia which is as important to the novel as his energy * Penelope Fitzgerald, Evening Standard *
Author Bio
Melvyn Bragg is a writer and broadcaster whose first novel, For Want of a Nail, was published in 1965. His novels since include The Maid of Buttermere, The Soldier's Return, Credo and Now is the Time, 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). He has also written several works of non-fiction, including The Adventure of English and The Book of Books about the King James Bible. He lives in London and Cumbria.