Remember Me...: 'Remarkable' - Sunday Times

Melvyn Bragg

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It was not love at first sight. It proved to be not much of a conversation Nothing should have come of it.

A passionate but ultimately tragic love affair starts when two students - one French, one English - meet at university at the beginning of the sixties. From its tentative early stages, the relationship develops into a life-changing one, whose profound impact continues to reverberate forty years later.

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Praise for Remember Me...: 'Remarkable' - Sunday Times

  • A literary feast. - Herald SunBragg can write sublimely about the peaks, and for that matter gullies, of human emotion. - The AgeBeautifully told. - Daily TelegraphBragg's new novel is a candid look - from the top - at life at the bottom. - DAPHNE GUINNESS, Sydney Morning HeraldA novel to be sipped like fine brandy. Remember Me... is cathartic and Bragg must write it out to its honest end. - Courier MailRemember Me is a romance with overtones of Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf... almost everyone will identify with it. - Sydney Morning HeraldThe prose is faultless. - MX MagazineOne can only applaud the seriousness, the humanity, the emotional honesty of the writing. Melvyn Bragg has added another forbidable chapter to one of the most distinguished literary series of recent times. - David Robinson, Sunday Telegraph

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Melvyn Bragg

Melvyn Bragg

Melvyn Bragg was born in Wigton, Cumbria, in 1939. He went to the local Grammar School and then to Wadham College, Oxford. He joined the BBC in 1961, and published his first novel, For Want of a Nail, in 1965.

He left the BBC and continued to write novels which include The Soldier's Return (WH Smith Literary Award), Without a City Wall (Mail on Sunday John Llewellyn Rhys Prize) and Now Is the Time (Parliamentary Book Award 2016). A Place in England, Son of War and Crossing the Lines were all nominated for the Booker Prize. His non-fiction includes The Adventure of English and The Book of Books, and his first memoir, Back in the Day, was published in 2022 to critical acclaim.

He edited and presented The South Bank Show from 1977 and hosted the BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time from 1998. He has now retired from both. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society and of The British Academy. He was given a Peerage in 1998 and a Companion of Honour in 2017.

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