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Harrison Birtwistle
Wild Tracks - A Conversation Diary with Fiona Maddocks
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
'Anyone with the smallest interest in composition - not just concertos but novels, buildings, lives, you name it, should read this absorbing, spiky, dazzling book.' Adam Thirwell, TLS Books of the Year Harrison Birtwistle is recognised worldwide as one of the greatest of living composers, behind...
Robert Lowell
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Born in 1917 into an aristocratic Boston family Robert Lowell was not yet thirty when his first major collection of poems, Lord Weary's Castle, won the Pulitzer Prize. With Life Studies, his third book, he found the intense, highly personal voice that made him the foremost American poet of his generation....
by Russell Hoban
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Re-issued to coincide with the centenary of Messiaen's birth, The Messiaen Companion was the first major study to appear after the composer's death in April 1992. It was the first book to offer both a complete survey of Messiaen's extraordinary achievements and a comprehensive guide to his music,...
by Alice Oswald
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
Weeds and Wild Flowers is a magical meeting of the poems of Alice Oswald and the etchings of Jessica Greenman. Within its pages everyday flora take on an extraordinary life, jostling tragically at times, at times comically, for a foothold in a busying world. Stunningly visualised and skilfully animated,...
The Road to Inver
Translations, Versions, Imitations
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
The Road to Inver gathers the verse translations of Tom Paulin from four decades, and brings together distinguished versions of classical and European poets which have appeared in his previous collections, from Liberty Tree (1983) to The Wind Dog (1999). But The Road to Inver also includes dozens...
Against Oblivion
Some Lives of the Twentieth-Century Poets
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Ian Hamilton's last book, published posthumously in 2002, is a typically brilliant revisiting of the concept of Samuel Johnson's classic Lives of the English Poets, wherein Hamilton considers 45 deceased poets of the twentieth century, offering his personal estimation of what claims they will have...
Stage Blood
Five tempestuous years in the early life of the National Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
In 1971, Michael Blakemore joined the National Theatre as Associate Director under Laurence Olivier. The National, still based at the Old Vic, was at a moment of transition awaiting the move to its vast new home on the South Bank. Relying on generous subsidy, it would need an extensive network of...
Keepers of the Flame
Literary Estates and the Rise of Biography
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Literary biography is an endlessly fascinating form, not least because of the fierce controversies that attend the question of how much of a writer's real life ought to be related to readers. Ian Hamilton, a first-rate biographer who encountering his share of adversity in writing the life of J.D....
The East End
Four Centuries of London Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
The East End as an idea is known to every Londoner, and to many others, though its boundaries are vague. Alan Palmer's historical overview of the area (first published in 1989 and revised in 2000) takes its extent to be the traditional limits of Hackney and Tower Hamlets, Hoxton and Shoreditch, the...
by Julia Copus
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Julia Copus's poems bring humanity and light to some of our most intimate and solitary moments, repeatedly breathing life into loss. In two previous collections, she has been feted as among the most compelling poets to have emerged in recent years; now, in The World's Two Smallest Humans, she is writing...
by Geoffrey Moorhouse
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
In the foreword to the first edition Geoffrey Moorhouse wrote:
'In a sense, the story of Calcutta is the story of India . . . It is the story of how and why Empire was created and what happened when Empire finished . . . The imperial residue of Calcutta, a generation after Empire ended, is...
My Gonads Roar
The twisted world of anagrams - from pop idols to celebrity chefs
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2008
Welcome to the twisted world of anagrams ...
What's in a name, like Jeremy Clarkson (Only Cars Jerk Me) or Gordon Ramsay (My Gonads Roar)? A few vowels and some consonants - or a whole new identity just waiting to burst free?
In My Gonads Roar, expert wordsmith Richard Napier rearranges...
by Rob Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In Psychedelia and Other Colours, acclaimed author Rob Chapman explores in crystalline detail the history, precedents and cultural impact of LSD, from the earliest experiments in painting with light and immersive environments to the thriving avant-garde scene that existed in San Francisco even before...
Riviera
The Rise and Rise of the Côte d'Azur
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
The Riviera has inspired countless novelists and artists, attracted as much by its visitors as by its location (Somerset Maugham called it 'a sunny place for shady people'). But for the majority of the English, the Riviera was made famous by rumour and report: it was the scene of the romance of Edward...