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A novel about the origins and development of the Independent Labour Party in Britain, spanning four decades and featuring three central characters. The book is praised for its humour, drama, fizzing exuberance and historical accuracy by various critics and publications.
- Swimmer: Amazon.co.uk: Broady, Bill: 9780002259460: Books
Swimmer is Bill Broady's lyrical literary debut: the story...
- In This Block There Lives a Slag…: And Other Yorkshire Fables ...
From the backstreets of Bradford to dingy moorland pubs with...
- Swimmer: Amazon.co.uk: Broady, Bill: 9780002259460: Books
Detailing the exploits, fortunes, and relationships of three central characters: passionate Fred Jowett, ruthless Philip Snowden (later, the Labour Party’s first chancellor), and the licentious and unforgettable Victor Grayson.
- Bill Broady
Jan 4, 2000 · Swimmer is Bill Broady's lyrical literary debut: the story of a young female swimmer, a Commonwealth gold medallist, who escapes the peculiar loneliness of family and school life by finding her element in the water. It's a strange and melancholy tale: "Your first and last memories were of butterflies ...
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From the backstreets of Bradford to dingy moorland pubs with ten year-old jukeboxes, Bill Broady’s bright new stories give Yorkshire a lick of new paint, with all of the searingly precise prose, wit and energy of his highly acclaimed first novel, Swimmer.
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Sep 30, 2024 · The Night-Soil Men. By Bill Broady. In an interview with Richard Owain Roberts,* Bill Broady recalls the unformed stylistic ambition of his teenage years with the kind of serendipity that propelled Harold Wilson from the doorstep of no.10 as a holidaying child to his later Prime Ministerial tenure. For if, with the ten-year long gestation of ...
Jun 15, 2024 · Broady brings tubfulls of humour, drama and fizzing exuberance to the ILP leaders’ zigzag journey from mill, market-place, pub and chapel to council-chamber, parliament and cabinet room. He takes ideas seriously but he makes those ideas dance.
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Bill Broady is a Yorkshire-based writer of fiction and short stories. His novels include Summer, Eternity is Temporary and The Night-Soil Men, and he has won a Macmillan Silver Pen Award.