Derrick Cooke Long considered a masterpiece, Wagner's Ring has baffled and confused critics because of the highly complex meaning of its text and music. The diverse range of commentaries written...

Ned Rorem The Pulitzer Prize winner who is often considered America's greatest living composer offers an insightful and revealing memoir that goes beyond his acclaimed diaries, filled with anecdotes about...

Deborah Levy The mesmerising new novel from the twice Booker-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming HomeIf she was my double and I was hers, was it true that she was knowing, I...

Nick Hornby Annie's put fifteen years into safe, slightly obsessive Duncan, and now she'd like her money back, please. It's time to move on. But she lives in Gooleness, the...

Priscilla Beaulieu Presley The inspiration for the major motion picture Priscilla directed by Sofia Coppola, this New York Times bestseller reveals the intimate story of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley,...

Emma Brodie The year is 1969, and the Bayleen Island Folk Fest is abuzz with one name: Jesse Reid. Tall and soft-spoken, with eyes blue as stone-washed denim, Jesse Reid's...

Herbert Breslin and Anne Midgette Luciano Pavarotti’s longtime manager and friend tells all. All .The King and I is the story of the thirty-six-year-old business relationship between Luciano Pavarotti and...

Jan Swafford Now in the definitive biography of one of the most lauded musical geniuses in history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, by the acclaimed composer and biographer Jan SwaffordAt the earliest...

Matt Rees It is 1791 and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is enlightenment Vienna's brightest star. Master of the city's music halls and devoted member of the Austrian Freemason's guild, he stands...

Aja Gabel The addictive debut novel about four young friends navigating the cutthroat world of music and their complex relationships with each other, as ambition, passion, and love intertwine over...

Janice Galloway 'A gripping narrative - a deeply moving study of love, loss and solitude' Independent on SundayCelebrated nineteenth-century concert pianist and composer, editor and teacher, friend of Brahms -...

Hannah Rothschild Beautiful, romantic and spirited, Pannonica, known as Nica, named after her father's favorite moth, was born in 1913 to extraordinary, eccentric privilege and a storied history. The Rothschild...