Wolf set the works of thirty-six poets to music. Here the genial professor of lieder at the Royal College of Music translates the poems, introduces the poets and Wolf's connections with them... read more
Born in Dublin in 1934, McGahern has corresponded with all his contemporary Irish writers. The letters are wonderful, and form a snapshot of late C20 Irish literature.
It's only six years since his magisterial biography of Beethoven, which seemed a lifetime's work. To do the same so quickly for Mozart seems nothing short of miraculous. NB due for publicati... read more
First edition, first printing of the seminal memoir by the father of British studio pottery, in fine condition with a near fine dust jacket. There is a tiny abrasion to the rear upper corner... read more
From the editor of Gunn's Letters comes the first biography of the poet whose complex sexual and cultural life led him to the California hippies and the AIDS crisis.
Harris' wondrously eclectic mind has previously produced Weatherland and Romantic Moderns. Here she weaves stories of the Sussex landscape of her youth, with threads of Blake, Milton, Consta... read more
Born in Kenya, the author was two when the Mau Mau uprising began. A powerful memoir of this very difficult period and the end of empire in Kenya.The author worked for many years for the BBC... read more
Out of the mouths of actors, directors, writers, set designers, producers... from the end of silent films and the dawn of Talkies to the present. A hefty tome that presents itself as a compe... read more
The biographer and poet (who is also an editor at Faber & Faber) explores the context of Eliot's poem through historical fragments, diaries and new research. Hollis' biography of Edward Thom... read more
Published to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the great impresario's birth. The names of those he worked with, those great and fabulous beings like Goncharova, Stravinsky, Picasso, Fokine,... read more
Following his much-praised Greece: The Biography of a Modern Nation, RB turns towards the global influence of Greek history and culture, from the Mycenaeans to the modern-day Greek diaspora.
Catherine was the sister of Christian; in WW2 she worked with the French Resistance but was arrested in 1944 and sent to Ravensbrück. Miraculously she survived, and was awarded both the Cro... read more
When Crane died at 28, he was a star: the adventurous veteran of the Wild West and Cuba during the Spanish American War, the author of a masterpiece (The Red Badge of Courage), and an exile ... read more