Melvyn Bragg gives archive of life’s work to Leeds University

“He is already a byword for unremitting graft, with 21 novels, 13 historical studies and a couple of children’s books to his name, as well as separate careers in academia, broadcasting and politics. But now the world has been given half a tonne of further material by Lord Melvyn Bragg to explore, including an unpublished novel and 60 boxes of ideas, draft scripts and short stories which even the writer, said, he had half-forgotten …” (more)

[Martin Wainwright, Guardian, 31 January]

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