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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...
My Last Supper: One Meal, a Lifetime in the Making
Author: Jay Rayner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'You're about to die. What would your final meal be?' An awful lot of people seem to want Jay Rayner dead,...
The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
Author: Alex Ross Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2008 A sweeping musical history that goes from the salons of pre-war...
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...
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 A Spectator Book of the Year * A Times Book of the...
Pocket Audrey Hepburn Wisdom: Inspirational Quotes From a Film Icon
Author: Hardie Grant Books Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 Audrey Hepburn is one of Hollywood's greatest icons, and still one of the world's most recognisable actresses. In addition to...
Scrappy Little Nobody
Author: Anna Kendrick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Fearsome wit' Elle 'Charming' Buzzfeed 'Ridiculously entertaining' Associated Press 'Endearingly honest' Guardian A collection of humorous autobiographical essays by...
Lift-the-flap Questions and Answers About Music
Author: Lara Bryan Format: Board book Number of Pages: 14 How do you write a song? Who are the best-selling musicians of all time? Can you play music in space?...
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...
My Last Supper: One Meal, a Lifetime in the Making
Author: Jay Rayner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 You're about to die. What would your final meal be? This question has long troubled Jay Rayner. As a...
Mozart: The Reign of Love
Author: Jan Swafford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 832 From his celebrated early childhood, Mozart has been caught up in myths: the superhuman prodigy, the adult who was still a...
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 ......
IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD
Author: Russ Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Instant National Bestseller! Wall Street Journal bestseller; USA Today bestseller; Publishers Weekly bestseller; international bestseller. An inspirational book by self-made musical superstar,...
This Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl
Author: Paul Brannigan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'Someone called and said Kurt died. I just f*****g lost it.' He has sold over 40 million albums. He's...
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...
Cash
Author: Johnny Cash Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 This fascinating autobiography of the country music legend recounts the highs and lows, the struggles and hard-won triumphs of...
The Autobiography of Pops Foster: New Orleans Jazz Man
Author: Tom Stoddard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 242 The first famous double-bass stylist in jazz George Murphy Pops Foster enjoyed a career that spanned gigs with greats...
Keep 'Er Lit: New Selected Lyrics
Author: Van Morrison Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 I want to sing this song for you I want to lift your spirits high And in my soul I want...
Sweet Dreams: From Club Culture to Style Culture, the Story of the New Romantics
Author: Dylan Jones (Editor) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 688 Sweet Dreams charts the rise of the New Romantics, a scene that grew out of the remnants of post-punk and...
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...
Jazz on the Road. Don Albert's Musical Life
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Author: Christopher Wilkinson
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 290
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...
Soul Rebel
Author: Burnett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 200 In 1976, while on assignment in Jamaica for Time magazine, David Burnett photographed Bob Marley for the first time, and Burnett became...
Mozart and Beethoven: The Concept of Love in Their Operas
Author: Irving Singer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 An exploration of the sensuous and the passionate, as expressed in operas by Mozart and Beethoven. Music, language, and...
How Does It Feel?: A Life of Musical Misadventures
Author: Mark Kermode Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Following a formative encounter with the British pop movie Slade in Flame in 1975, Mark Kermode decided that musical...
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 A Spectator Book of the Year * A Times Book of the...
World Musical Instruments
Author: Pepin Press Format: Mixed media product Number of Pages: 224 This book is an extraordinary pictorial dictionary of musical instruments from around the world, containing over 1500 drawings. Each...
The B.B. King Reader: Six Decades of Commentary
Author: Richard Kostelanetz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 348 B.B. King is a national treasure. For more than five decades he has been the consummate blues performer. His...
Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth
Author: John Szwed Format: Hardback Number of Pages: Kirkus Best Books of 2015 selection forBiography Published in celebration of Holiday s centenary, the first biography to focus on the singer...
1D - The One Direction Story: An Unauthorized Biography
Author: Danny White Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The biography of the hugely successful British band One Direction, who shot to fame after taking the seventh series...
Menuhin: A Life
Author: Sir Humphrey Burton, CBE Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Since 2000, when this biography was first published, Menuhin's name has not faded from public attention, as...
Homeward Bound: The Life of Paul Simon
Author: Peter Ames Carlin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A revelatory account of the life of beloved American music icon, Paul Simon, by the bestselling rock biographer Peter Ames...
A Drop of Patience
Author: William Melvin Kelley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 At the age of five, a blind African-American boy is handed over to a brutal state home. Here...
Gypsy Music The Balkans and Beyond
Author: Alan Ashton-Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 248 The figure of the gypsy is simultaneously vilified and romanticized. Gypsies have for centuries been associated with criminality and...
Beethovens Eroica The First Great Romantic Symphony
Author: James Hamilton-Paterson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 An ode to Beethoven's revolutionary masterpiece, his Third Symphony In 1805, the world of music was startled by an avant-garde and...