Back in the DayMelvyn Bragg's first ever memoir an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post war Cumbria, which vividly evokes a vanished world. 'The best thing he's ever written . . . What a world he captures here. You can almost smell it' Rachel Cooke, Observer 'Wonderfully rich, endearing and unusual . . . a balanced, honest picture' Richard Benson, Mail on SundayIn this elegiac and heartfelt memoir, Melvyn Bragg recreates his youth in the Cumbrian market

he has dedicated his life to exploring and explaining the mysteries of the universe

It offers accessible

thanks to the remarkable woman at the head of the grandest banking family in Europe

it's a philosophic path')

Northern Europe and the ancient Greco-Roman world

this memoir tells a gripping and gruesome tale

BUT IS SHE ANY WISER

now in their sixties

holding a plastic carrier bag

Neither of them is sure they can face the party

Fleeing the 'wolves' - the xenocidal alien machines known as Inhibitors - he has protected his family and community from attack for forty years

and working the land to the end of her days