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DARKNESS, DRAMA AND DEATH FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED AND BESTSELLING* AUTHOR OF CLEAN AND HER MAJESTY'S ROYAL COVEN . SING FOR YOUR LIFE! Taryn Beck and her family don't have...

An unforgettable tribute to the unbreakable bond between a father and son When Simon McDermott first noticed his dad Ted's sudden flares of temper and fits of forgetfulness, he couldn't...

Why 33? Partly because that's the number of rotations performed by a vinyl album in one minute, and partly because it takes a lot of songs to tell a story...

NEW FOR 2025 - Barrington Stoke's long-awaited first dyslexia-friendly plays The complete and unabridged dyslexia-friendly edition of Macbeth , Shakespeare's dark tragedy that blends the supernatural with prophecy, ambition and...

NEW FOR 2025 - Barrington Stoke's long-awaited first dyslexia-friendly plays The complete and unabridged dyslexia-friendly edition of Romeo and Juliet , Shakespeare's renowned tragedy of "two star-crossed lovers" who meet...

'Fab-u-lous' Craig Revel Horwood'Uplifting' Fleur East'Brilliant' Sara Davies'Feel-good' Gemma Atkinson Change your life for the better, starting today, with this primer on positivity from Strictly star and It Takes Two...

Revisit favorite characters and magical locations from the epic movie musical in Wicked: The Faces & Places of Oz . Go on a journey through the most exciting locations in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBehind the curtain of Victorian England's most celebrated theatrical partnership lies a story of creative genius, ego, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFor decades, John Cargher was the irreverent, passionate, and brilliantly entertaining voice of classical music and opera on Australian radio, and There's Music in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFor lovers of wit, wordplay, and Victorian theatrical genius, The Savoy Stories presents a charming retelling of the beloved Gilbert and Sullivan operas, transformed...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Protective covering over dust jacket (removable)For over a century, the rolling fields and ancient farmsteads of Sussex were alive with the sound of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerStep into the candlelit world of eighteenth-century Leipzig, where the genius of Johann Sebastian Bach unfolds not through the grand sweep of history,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: stained book blockFrom the thunderous drama of Verdi to the mythic grandeur of Wagner, Stories of the Great Operas &...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA masterwork of operatic scholarship, Famous Puccini Operas by Spike Hughes is the definitive...

One of the most important events in modern music remains the late 80s cross-collision of rock and hip hop. Aerosmith/Run DMC, Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique, Public Enemy and Anthrax, Rick...

'By mixing lo-fi charm into hi-fi science Into the Groove captures all the wonder and absurdity of its subject, jumping and skipping with real analogue delight .' - Sunday Times...

For more than thirty years Francesco Lotoro, an Italian pianist and composer has been on an odyssey to recover music written by the inmates of Adolf Hitler's concentration camps and...

What is the tie that binds a show like the Gershwin Brothers' Of Thee I Sing to Michael R. Jackson's A Strange Loop ? Did you know that the Pulitzer...

The stunning standard edition of Starside , with illustrated endpapers, a special hardcover case design and jacket effects. Enter the enchanting and deadly world of Starside, where swords have magic...

'SO MUCH TO LOVE!' - Total Girl Charlotte Perkins is seven years old and can't wait to grow up - if only she could decide what she wanted to be!...

"Definitive...Not just for Talking Heads fans-it's a masterful dive into downtown New York in the 70s, and the changing face of rock music."- Town & Country " Riveting" - New...

Sorrow Tears and Blood offers a glimpse into the complicated social, cultural, and political phenomenon that is Nigeria. Though Nigeria is the most populous African country, and sometimes called the...

Named a best book of the year by BookPage and California Review of Books From National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Sam Quinones, the story of a demanding instrument, the...

Wildfire tells the story of the first decade of The Prodigy from the perspective of original member Leeroy Thornhill, fully illustrated with entirely unseen photography from the earliest raves, to...

In 1940 Sergei Rachmaninoff, living in exile in America, broke his creative silence and composed a swan song to his Russian homeland. What happened in those final haunted years and...

The author of the magisterial A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers now approaches the great singers and their greatest work in an innovative and revelatory way:...

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Strange Trip and the publicist of the Grateful Dead, Dennis McNally, a riveting social history of everything that led up...

"Reading Nick Corasaniti's delightful book about the storied Asbury Park, New Jersey, club is like sitting at your favorite bar listening to the old regulars tell magnificent stories." - Rolling...

From the backstreets of Buenos Aires to Parisian high society, this is the extraordinary story of the dance that captivated the world - a tale of politics and passion, immigration...

When Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's eldest daughter, Isata, made her solo debut at the BBC Proms in 2023, she could not have been prouder. Watching years of hard work transform into a...

'It does what fantasy does best which is show us something beyond our experience... this shows us something a bsolutely new' Susanna Clarke 'A breathless time-travelling classic. Savage, humane, comic,...

There has never been a band like Pearl Jam. The Seattle quintet has recorded eleven studio albums; sold some 85 million records; played over a thousand shows, in fifty countries;...

The sounds of new wave pop music and the early days of MTV were defined by the work of a handful of iconic musicians, and few stood taller in that...

What links the shows La Cage aux Folles, Kinky Boots and BARE ? When was the first Queer musical produced on Broadway? How has queerness evolved in the context of...

From the earliest of civilisations, humans have found ways to make music, whether through makeshift drums or artfully drilled bone flutes. But how did music - effectively little more than...

The book titled Drumming at the Edge of Magic by the author Mickey Hart. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew composers have captivated the world's imagination as completely as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Eric Blom's Mozart — part of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFor anyone who has ever felt intimidated by the grandeur and complexity of opera, John Cargher's How to...

(Playbill Broadway Yearbook). Many of the people who work on Broadway keep scrapbooks of their experiences: photos, signed posters, ticket stubs, and, of course, Playbills . These are treasured keepsakes,...

"Let's Put on a Musical" is a Backstage favourite, entertaining, indispensable and now revised and updated to include the latest shows and the freshest ideas. It tells you which plays...

From "Gymnopedies" to the scandalous ballet "Relache", Erik Satie's creations are paradoxical and extraordinary, and the mask the composer created for himself was as deliberately ambiguous as his music. This...

Magic enjoyed a vigorous revival in sixteenth-century Europe, attaining a prestige lost for over a millennium and becoming, for some, a kind of universal philosophy. Renaissance music also suggested a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew artistic achievements in Western civilization match the ambition and grandeur of Richard Wagner's monumental opera cycle, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew books capture the anarchic joy of music-making quite like The Hoffnung Music Festival, a riotous celebration of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in the pantheon of Western classical music inspire as much devotion—and as much myth—as...

Edition: Twelfth EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of aesthetic philosophy and moral inquiry stands Music and Morals, the...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners,Previous ownerFew...

Edition: 7th ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerAt the crossroads of science and art stands one of the most enduring works in acoustics: The Physics of Music,...