Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing life, small yet…

Scott Walker is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant, serious and intelligent of artists today. Walker's iconic lyrics will…

Few British schoolchildren of the seventies can have been as obsessed with the Tour de France as William Fotheringham, who…

sharp and fizzy.\' GuardianHotel\'That unusual theatrical thing, a thriller - and a thriller that really scares.\'…

This fourth volume of Tom Stoppard's work for the stage brings together five of his most celebrated translations and…

\nYou talk about love?With an exclusive introduction. The official scripts from Season Two of the immensely popular,…

\nFrom the \'Winner of Winners\' of the Baillie Gifford Prize, a timely and dramatic story of a utopian American experiment,…

The lives, loves, adventures and trailblazing musical careers of four extraordinary women from a stunning debut biographer.…

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\nLonglisted for the Penderyn Music Book PrizeEngland was once dubbed \'the land without music\', but in the early twentieth…

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\nDrawing from her own vivid reminiscences and those of ex-students, documents from the Moscow Conservatoire and extensive…

People increasingly are using documentaries as journalism, younger audiences want to see change in the world, Fraser says.…

\nA stunning social history of British rap and grime by one of the nation\'s foremost cultural chroniclers. \'A stunning…

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\nThe must-read music book of the year: Bob Stanley\'s prequel to Yeah Yeah Yeah, Let\'s Do It is the only book that brings…

\nA history of the great British comedy tradition of the twentieth century to the present day.\n…

\nI am a composer. Part memoir, Becoming a Composer offers an intriguing glimpse into the mind and motivation of a composer…

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\nA stunning new edition of Bob Stanley\'s much-loved, acclaimed and bestselling history of pop, Yeah Yeah Yeah.\n…

Henrietta Lovell is best known as 'The Rare Tea Lady'. She is on a mission to revolutionise the way we drink tea by…

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An indelible exploration of the Cultural Revolution and how it shapes China today, Red Memory uncovers forty years of…

Completely addictive.' STEPHEN FRY'A volume to treasure, sigh and snigger over.' BIDISHAAn engrossing collection of the most…

Based on the famous series of dialogues between Francois Truffaut and Alfred Hitchcock from the 1960s, this book moves…

\n\'The greatest book ever written on British independent music\' Guardian\'One of the best British music books of the last…

In a period of meaningless mass manufacturing, our growing appetite for hand-made objects, artisan food, and craft beverages…

\nA monumental history of the LGBTQ influence on popular culture, from the award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author…

In the book, Rosen concentrates on the three major figures of the time - Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven - because 'it is in…

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\n\'Counterintuitive, funny and provocative . Along the way, he reveals the deep-lying and often controversial roots of…

So said Elizabeth Taylor, and therein lay her secret. From her days as a youthful minx at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to her…

\nThe rise and fall and triumphant rise from the ashes of Lenny Henry during the 80s and 90s.\n…

\nThe moving story of Rachmaninoff\'s years in exile and the composition of his last great work, against a cataclysmic…

\nA stirring account of how music acts as a witness to history and a medium of cultural memory in the post-Holocaust world.\n…

\nTrapped in History tells how the British colonised Kenya and how African nationalism arose under Jomo Kenyatta. Trapped in…

\nBasil Bunting\'s work was published haphazardly throughout most of his life, and in many cases he did not oversee…

\nBut as Stephen Walsh - author of the highly praised Debussy: A Painter in Sound - points out in this intensely absorbing…

\nThis new edition updates Mike Leigh\'s career to his most recent films, Mister Turner and the epicmasterpiece Peterloo.\n…

\nLet\'s Do It is the definitive history of the birth of Pop, from 1900 to the mid-fifties. The story begins in 1898 with…

\nJones combines her personal experience as a mixed-race woman who cares about racism with her professional expertise as a…

This is a collection of texts written between the fourth and fourteenth centuries by spiritual masters of the Orthodox…

\nThe Ballets Russes not only left a matchless artistic legacy - they changed style and glamour, they changed taste, and…

\nA groundbreaking reassessment of W. H. Auden\'s early life and poetry, shedding new light on his artistic development as…

\nImmersive, detailed, meticulous, privileged inside-dope.\' - Craig Raine More than just the tinkerings of a glass…

\nMeet John Cromer - \'one of the most original comic creations in recent fiction\' (Guardian) - and discover one of the…

\nThe 36 poets set by Wolf are each given their own chapter: a brief essay on the poet is followed by a note on Wolf\'s…