Alison Weir Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir tells the little-known story of Henry VIII’s fourth wife, as a grieving king chooses a bride sight unseen in the fourth...

Author: Fredrik Backman The author of A Man Called Ove is back with a riotous comedy about a hostage-situation at a Swedish apartment viewing.A bank robber on the run locks himself in...

Author: William Shakespeare As You Like It, Shakespeare's most lighthearted comedy and one of the best-loved and most performed of all his plays, was probably written in 1599 or 1600,...

Mary Beth Keane A gripping and compassionate family drama set between neighbours in suburban New York.Gillam, upstate New York: a town of ordinary, big-lawned suburban houses. The Gleesons have recently...

Chris Whitaker Right. Wrong. Life is lived somewhere in between.Duchess Day Radley is a thirteen-year-old self-proclaimed outlaw. Rules are for other people. She is the fierce protector of her five-year-old...

Rainbow Rowell "Hi, I'm the guy who reads your e-mail, and also, I love you..."Beth Fremont and Jennifer Scribner-Snyder know that somebody is monitoring their work e-mail. (Everybody in the...

David Schulenberg Bach has remained a figure of continuous fascination and interest to scholars and readers since the original Master Musicians Bach volume's publication in 1983 - even since its...

Christoph Wolff Throughout his life, renowned and prolific composer Johann Sebastian Bach articulated his views as a composer in purely musical terms; he was notoriously reluctant to write about his...

Lewis Lockwood Beethoven's Lives will be required reading for anyone interested in understanding how Beethoven biography has evolved through the ages.When Ludwig van Beethoven died in March 1827, the world...

Charles Rosen Beethoven’s piano sonatas form one of the most important collections of works in the whole history of music. Spanning several decades of his life as a composer, the...

Jan Caeyers This new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven offers connoisseurs and newcomers alike an unparalleled story of the composer’s life and works, written by a renowned conductor and scholar...

Laura Turnbridge Ludwig van Beethoven: to some, simply the greatest ever composer of Western classical music. Yet his life remains shrouded in myths, and the image persists of him as...