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Sound Tracks: Uncovering Our Musical Past
A History of the World in 100 Objects meets Sapiens- the first archaeological history of humanity's musical heritage, in fifty detective stories. Here is the history of humankind's relationship with...
The Lost Pianos of Siberia: A Sunday Times Paperback of 2021
A critically-acclaimed Sunday Times and Spectator book of 2020, and a major new literary voice. Siberia's history is traditionally one of exiles, bitter cold and suffering. Yet there is another...
Two Centuries Of Opera At Convent Garden
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Author: Harold RosenthalBinding: HardbackPublished: Putnam, 1958Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis book provides a comprehensive history of opera at Covent Garden, detailing its evolution over two centuries....
Opera Library Life of Rossini
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Author: StendhalBinding: HardbackPublished: Calder & Boyars, 1970, Revised EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis book is a biography of the famous composer Gioachino Rossini, written by the renowned French...
John Bishop A Life For Music
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Author: Christopher SymonsBinding: HardbackPublished: Hyland House, 1989Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis biography chronicles the life of John Bishop, a prominent figure in the world of...
Re-Sisters: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery
From the acclaimed author of Art Sex Music comes a vital meditation on womanhood, creativity and self-expression, and a revelatory exploration into the lives of three visionary artists.'A fascinating tale...
This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's 'Kid A' and the Beginning of the 21st Century
Author: Steven Hyden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In 1999, as the end of an old century loomed, five musicians entered a recording studio in Paris without a deadline....
The Tastemaker: My Life with the Legends and Geniuses of Rock Music
Author: Tony King Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The Tastemaker charts the singular life of a man who has been at the beatingheart of music's most iconic moments for...
The Flame: Poems Notebooks Lyrics Drawings
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Author: Leonard Cohen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER Named a Fall Read by Vogue, Esquire, The Washington Post, TIME, Vanity Fair and O, the...
Being David Archer: And Other Unusual Ways of Earning a Living
Author: Timothy Bentinck Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Timothy Bentinck has played the part of David Archer in BBC Radio 4's The Archers since 1982. He is also the...
Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy
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Author: Mike Love Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The New York Times Bestseller Mike Love tells the story of his legendary, raucous, and ultimately triumphant five-decade career as the...
How to be Champion: The No.1 Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography
Author: Sarah Millican Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'The naughtiest, helpiest, laughieoutloudiest and goodest book I've ever done reading on. Give that girl a banana!' DAWN FRENCH THE NO.1...
The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting
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Author: Ben Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An epic quest exposes hidden truths about Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, the recently discovered masterpiece that sold for $450 million-and...
Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung
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Author: Min Kym Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The spellbinding memoir of a violin virtuoso who loses the instrument that had defined her both on stage and off --...
Tracey Emin
Author: Jonathan Jones Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 This accessible and expertly written introduction and overview of Tracey Emin's life offers a completely up-to-date view on the...
Behind the Lens: My Life
Author: David Suchet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In the early days of my career, I didn't think I stood a hope in hell. Look at me: I'm short,...
Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87
Author: Roy Strong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 'The Alan Clark diaries of cultural politics' Sunday Times 'At every word a reputation dies' A. N. Wilson Roy...
Young Rembrandt: A Biography
Author: Onno Blom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 278 Rembrandt's life has always been an enigma. How did a miller's son from a provincial Dutch town become the greatest artist...
The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini
Author: Joe Posnanski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Joe Posnanski enters the world of Harry Houdini and his legions of devoted...
Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988-2003
Author: Sir Roy Strong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 'Viper wit from the gardener, writer and Knight of exquisite taste' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Funny, barbed and moving ......
My Life, My Way: The Autobiography
Author: Cliff Richard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Sir Cliff Richard OBE is the biggest-selling artist of all time, selling over 250 million records around the world...