Michael Tanner While no one would dispute Wagner's ranking among the most significant composers in the history of Western music, his works have been more fiercely attacked than those of...

Barry Millington January 1, 1986 by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd

Roger Scruton Richard Wagner's final creation is also his most mysterious. The story of Parsifal, the 'pure fool, knowing through compassion', who has been called to rescue the Kingdom of...

Stewart Spencer, Barry Millington "An important work for Wagnerites and musical scholars."― Choice There had long been a need for a modern English translation of Wagner’s Ring ―a version that...

Alex Ross   Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for...

Amanda Quick Gentle Reader,It could have been a scene from one of my novels. As a rule, respectable ladies do not accept calls from Mysterious Gentlemen on business of the...

Ha JinIn Waiting, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author Ha Jin draws on his intimate knowledge of contemporary China to create a novel of unexpected richness and feeling. This is the story of...

Mark van Hagen

Linda Sunshine The beloved author gathers the wit and wisdom of many well-known women on the subject of pregnancy, including Anne Lamott, Nora Ephron, and Louise Erdrich, among others.  First...

William Boyd   A thrilling, plot-twisting novel set in Europe during the first world war, from the bestselling author of Any Human Heart, Restless and Ordinary Thunderstorms

AS BalfourSet partly in late 1950’s London, Waiting for Walter follows the fortunes of two people over a forty-year time span, crisscrossing between countries. Days before his son’s marriage to...

Sylvain Neuvel As a child, Rose Franklin made an astonishing discovery: a giant metallic hand, buried deep within the earth. As an adult, she’s dedicated her brilliant scientific career to...