Kingdom Come

Description

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.

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.

'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