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Mao's Last Dancer
Author: Li Cunxin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 In a small, desperately poor village in north-east China, a young peasant boy sits at his rickety old school...
Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 An intimate conversation about music and creativity, between the internationally bestselling writer Haruki Murakami and world-class conductor, Seiji Ozawa....
Music in the Castle of Heaven: A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach
Author: John Eliot Gardiner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such...
Rudolf Nureyev: The Life
Author: Julie Kavanagh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 The incredible story of the 20th century's superstar ballet dancer, soon to be a major film by Ralph Fiennes...
Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces
Author: Laura Tunbridge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 An authoritative and refreshing account of Beethoven's life and music Ludwig van Beethoven- to some, simply the greatest ever...
Dear Fatty: The Perfect Mother's Day Read
Author: Dawn French Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The number one bestselling autobiography of Britain's best-loved comedienne ___________________________ A hilarious, heartwarming memoir from one of Britain's best-loved...
The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung
Author: Roger Scruton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A magnificent book by a famous author on perhaps the greatest of all musical works Wagner's Ring of the...
Chopin's Piano: A Journey through Romanticism
Author: Paul Kildea Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A dazzling exploration of Romantic music unlike any other, from one of the most exciting writers about classical music...
The Ring of the Nibelung
Author: Richard Wagner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 816 A superb translation of one of the greatest nineteenth century poems- the libretto to Wagner's Ring cycle The scale...
Warhol: A Life as Art
Author: Blake Gopnik Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 976 The definitive biography of one of the most famous and influential artists the world has ever seen When critics...
The Fry Chronicles
Author: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 National Treasure- noun - someone or something regarded as emblematic of a nation's cultural heritage, such as Stephen Fry...
Life on Air
Author: David Attenborough Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 "The memoirs of the world's leading Natural History programme maker, updated and revised for 2009" "Sir David Attenborough is...
This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession
Author: Daniel Levitin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The New York Times bestselling book which examines how humans experience music and unravels the mystery of our perennial...
The Sixteen Satires
Author: Juvenal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer energy of...
The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs
Author: Julia Bishop Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Published in cooperation with the English Folk Dance and Song Society, this volume presents the songs with music, and...
Lady Sings the Blues
Author: Billie Holiday Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The bluesy, gutsy, no-holds-barred memoir of jazz legend Billie Holiday. 'I've been told that no one sings the word...
Bound for Glory
Author: Woody Guthrie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Chronicling some from the point of view of one of the twentieth century's most influential musicians, Woody Guthrie's Bound...