Josh Lawton - A novel by beloved national treasure Melvyn Bragg

''Brilliant''
Daily Telegraph

''The book is exciting . . . a pleasure to be remembered''
Financial Times

At once a love story and a portrayal of innocence brutally curtailed, Josh Lawton charts the rites of passage of a young Cumbrian farm worker and keen fell runner - an exceptionally good man whose very integrity proves his undoing.

''With this novel, Melvyn Bragg has established his place in English letters to the extent that his Cumbria is as potent a literary region as Hardy''s Wessex, Lawrence''s Midlands and Housman''s Shropshire''
New Statesman