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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, A Son of War, 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.A gripping saga of great passion ... sustained, impassioned and uplifting
The Times
An absorbing epic ... as splendid a ripping yarn as any of the best classics
Daily Telegraph
A gripping, deeply accomplished work
Evening Standard
I loved it ... Bragg's stately, seething, passionate epic is several cuts above modern attempts at historical fiction
Literary Review
A beguiling entry into a society strange, neglected, important, tragic in many of its triumphs
Spectator
Wonderfully evocative, passionate and erudite ... No summary could do justice to a book of this erudition, romance and scope
Glasgow Herald
'A gripping saga of great passion'
The Times
'As splendid a ripping yarn as any of the best classics'
Daily Telegraph
'I loved it . . . [a] stately, seething, passionate epic'
Literary Review
Britain during the Dark Ages is the setting for the fascinating story of Bega, a young Irish princess who became a saint, and her lifelong bond with Padric, prince of the north-western kingdom of Rheged. This dramatic, far-reaching tale brings to life a land of warring kings, Christians and pagans, and tribes divided by language and culture, illuminating a little-known yet critical period in British history.