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29%OFFA. J. Cronin - The Northern Light - 9781447244141 - 9781447244141
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The Northern Light

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Description for The Northern Light Paperback. From the author of The Stars Look Down and The Citadel, and the creator of Dr Finlay's Casebook Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.

Henry Page, owner of The Northern Light, the oldest and most respected newspaper in Tynecastle, is offered a vast sum to turn over control to a mass-circulation group based in London. He refuses – despite entreaties by his wife to accept – and so begins his fight with the Chronicle, an almost defunct newspaper in the same area which is given new life by London-thinking and London men.

Against Henry Page, a journalist who believes in honest presentation of news without bringing in sensationalism, the Chronicle pulls every dirty trick in the trade. And Henry, brought eventually almost ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
242
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447244141
SKU
9781447244141
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-2

About A. J. Cronin
A J Cronin was born in Cardross, Scotland, in 1896 and studied at the University of Glasgow. In 1916 he served as a surgeon sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy Volunteers Reserve, and at the war's end he completed his medical studies and practiced in South Wales. He was later appointed to the Ministry of Mines, studying the medical problems of ... Read more

Reviews for The Northern Light
Immensely successful, utterly ruthless
The Spectator
A.J. Cronin was perhaps the most successful novelist of the 1930s … probably as significant a figure as J.B. Priestley
The English Historical Review
One of the most popular authors in the English speaking world
New York Times

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