Win a copy of 'The Barbara Taylor Bradford Collection'

18/09/2008

Barbara Taylor Bradford OBE, is the first author in publishing history to record 23 consecutive best selling novels in both the UK and US and has sold more than 80 million copies worldwide. Proof of her extraordinary talent lies in the popularity not only of her books, but all the onscreen adaptations of them.

 

Now for the first time ever, five film adaptations of the hugely successful novelist’s best-loved books, Voice of The Heart, Act Of Will, To Be The Best, Hold The Dream and her first ever novel, A Woman Of Substance will be available together in one beautifully packaged six-disc set. The Barbara Taylor Bradford Collection will be released on 15 September 2008, courtesy of Acorn Media.

 

Originally broadcast on Channel 4 in January 1985, A Woman Of Substance,
remains the highest rated programme in the channel’s history, drawing in a
staggering 14 million viewers. The cast list reads like a who’s who of great British talent including; Deborah Kerr (From Here To Eternity, The King And I), Liam Neeson (Schindler’s List, Rob Roy), John Mills (Great Expectations, Scott Of The Antarctic) and in an early starring role, Miranda Richardson (Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, Tom And Viv.)

 

A Woman Of Substance begins the saga of the ambitious servant girl Emma Harte, who overcomes humble Yorkshire beginnings to become the head of an international retail chain and one of the richest women in the world. Starring Jenny Seagrove (The Woman In White, Local Hero) as the determined Emma Harte.

 

Starring Nigel Havers (Chariots Of Fire, A Passage To India), James Brolin (Traffic, Catch Me If You Can) and Claire Bloom (Crimes And Misdemeanors, Clash Of The Titans), Hold The Dream is the epic sequel to A Woman Of Substance. At eighty years old, Barbara Taylor Bradford’s extraordinary heroine Emma Harte is passing control of her vast business empire to her cherished granddaughter Paula. But with an untrustworthy husband, will Paula be able to stay at the top of the Harte kingdom?

 

In To Be The Best Emma Harte’s granddaughter Paula faces the greatest struggle of her career, battling against robberies, a stockholder with a gambling problem, a Hong Kong drug ring and the risk of an Ainsley family takeover. Paula must truly fight to be the best. Starring Lindsay Wagner, Christopher Cazenove, Stephanie Beacham, and the superb Anthony Hopkins, Victoria Tennant, and Elizabeth Hurley star in the emotionally stirring Act Of Will, based partly on Barbara Taylor Bradford’s remarkable life story.

 

Orphan child Audra (Tennant) turned iron willed matriarch devotes her life to giving her daughter Christina (Hurley) the life that she herself missed out on. But as Christina strives to forge her own path, will she be able to please her mother while becoming the woman she’s desperate to be.

 

A powerful, romantic drama, Voice Of The Heart tells the story of two intelligent beautiful women, one a British author from a good family, the other an American actress with a terrible secret past. What unites the two women in friendship will tear their lives, loves and careers apart. Stars Victoria Tennant, Honor Blackman, Lindsay Wagner and Leigh Lawson.

 

 

The Barbara Taylor Bradford Collection is released on 15th September 2008, RRP £59.99

 

Mature Times has 5 copies to give away. For a chance to win a copy, just answer the following question.

 

Barbara Taylor Bradford was born in which city? (She shares her birthplace with Tommy Steele's wife - see the interview with Tommy in the Personality Interview section! )

 

Competition closes 14th October 2008