Sofia looks at the tradition of afternoon tea, at home and in London's many elegant tea rooms.
Author Richard Beard, Director of the National Academy of Writing, explains how the popularity of eBooks is making video an essential component.
The inside story of how the NME has chronicled, and at times shaped, the British music scene for over 60 years.
La Monte Young is one of America's most important living composers, but his esoteric compositional methods and reclusive personality have prevented in-depth scholarly...
Perfect for music students and opera-goers, this book investigates what opera is, how it works and how it has developed.
Any listener knows the power of music to define a place, but few can describe the how or why of this phenomenon. This title showcases how American jazz defined a...
Breaking down walls between genres - classical, jazz, and popular, this book offers an integrated view of twentieth-century music. It demonstrates how Duke Ellington's...
Helter Skelter first published this biograghy of country singer Gram Parsons in 2002 to great critical acclaim (Uncut magazine made it their book of the month). This...
* David Bowie is one of our greatest icons. This is the definitive biography.
The number one text in the market, What's That Sound? treats rock as music first and foremost. New co-author Andy Flory has built on the classic strengths of the book...
By the end of 1968 The Beatles were far too busy squabbling with each other, while The Stones had simply stopped making music; English Rock was coming to an end. This...
New York Times-bestselling author Rachel Caine returns to the Gallery to discuss her...
In this exclusive interview for Foyles to celebrate the publication of Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary talks about her fascination with Thomas Cromwell and the corrupting effects of power.
WINNER ANNOUNCED! 80-year-old Aharon Appelfeld wins for Blooms of Darkness: while his fellow Jews are being rounded up, a young boy escapes the concentration camps by sheltering with a prostitute.
The story of Amelia Earhart, who on this day in 1932, set off from Newfoundland to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. Her disappearance over the...