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Hey you, what’s that sound? It’s the best of music books, from new and bestselling pop and rock to essential jazz and classical reading. Singer-songwriter memoirs, learn-to-play guides, jazz history and composer biographies: the world’s a sound stage, and the mic is on.

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The bestselling Music books right now

Just Kids
Just Kids
£12.99
Street-Level Superstar
Time's Echo
Time's Echo
£10.99£8.99
Taylor Swift - The Stories Behind the Songs
The Book of ABBA
The Piano Player: Wintertide Collection
How to Disappear
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
Chronicles Volume 1
Lady Sings the Blues
Dance Your Way Home
Dance Your Way Home
£12.99£9.49
Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story
Black by Design
Richard Hell and the Voidoids' Blank Generation
Official Strictly Come Dancing Annual 2025
In Search of Beethoven
Year of Wonder: Classical Music for Every Day
Faster Than A Cannonball
Denim and Leather
Every Valley

Music Gift Books

And the Roots of Rhythm Remain
Musicals
Musicals
£30.00
How To Disappear
Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music
Wendy Carlos
Pink Floyd and The Dark Side of the Moon
Psychedelia
Queen in 3-D
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
£35.00
Les Paul - 70 Years
The Art of Sound
Jean Sibelius
The Art of the Blues
Beastie Boys
The Lyrics
The Lyrics
£75.00
Ballet
Ballet
£30.00
Curepedia
Curepedia
£35.00
Amy Winehouse: Beyond Black
A Mad Love
A Mad Love
£30.00
The Rolling Stones: Unzipped

The Beatles: Now & Then

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Recommended reading on the Fab Four

George Harrison
The Lyrics
1964: Eyes of the Storm
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
Revolution in the Head
The Lost Album of The Beatles
The Beatles
The Beatles: Get Back
A Cellarful of Noise
Paul McCartney
Visualising The Beatles
The Beatles Lyrics
The Little Guide to the Beatles
John Lennon
The Beatles - All These Years
The Complete Beatles Songs
The Beatles - Album by Album
Maximum Volume: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin, The Early Years, 1926-1966
The Beatles by Terry O'Neill
The Beatles 101

Reading Music

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Recommended Music Writing

White Bicycles
Listen to This
Broken Greek
Ocean of Sound
1971 - Never a Dull Moment
Monolithic Undertow
Rip it Up and Start Again
Through the Prism
How Music Works
The Foghorn's Lament
How to Write One Song
Every Song Ever
Absolutely on Music
The Dark Stuff
This is Your Brain on Music
Perfect Sound Whatever
The Musical Human
Electric Shock
It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track
Detroit 67
Detroit 67
£14.99

Cover Love

  • 1000 Record Covers
    Michael Ochs
    £20.00
    Vinyl’s back in style and in this selection of 1,000 of the most iconic record sleeves from the 60s to 90s, we recall wh... SEE MORE
    Vinyl’s back in style and in this selection of 1,000 of the most iconic record sleeves from the 60s to 90s, we recall why it’s the biggest and best music format ever. Seminal artwork, memora... SEE MORE
  • Art Record Covers. 40th Ed.
    Francesco Spampinato
    £25.00
    This unique anthology of artists’ record covers, from the 1950s to today includes more than 450 covers, tracing the inte... SEE MORE
    This unique anthology of artists’ record covers, from the 1950s to today includes more than 450 covers, tracing the interaction between music and the visual arts. Featured covers include Sal... SEE MORE
  • Art Sleeves
    D.B. Burkeman
    £42.00
    Like a well-made playlist, the album covers in this volume combine to create a portrait of cool and culture desired by a... SEE MORE
    Like a well-made playlist, the album covers in this volume combine to create a portrait of cool and culture desired by art, music, and record lovers alike. SEE MORE
  • The Cover Art of Blue Note Records
    Graham Marsh
    £22.00
    The Cover Art of Blue Note Records is Graham Marsh and Glyn Callingham’s classic collection of the unparalleled record s... SEE MORE
    The Cover Art of Blue Note Records is Graham Marsh and Glyn Callingham’s classic collection of the unparalleled record sleeves produced by the celebrated Blue Note record label. SEE MORE
  • Jazz Covers
    Joaquim Paulo
    £50.00
    This striking collection of jazz record covers shows the designs that defined a sound. Containing covers from the 1940s ... SEE MORE
    This striking collection of jazz record covers shows the designs that defined a sound. Containing covers from the 1940s to the early 1990s, each reproduction is accompanied with essential ba... SEE MORE
  • Funk & Soul Covers
    Joaquim Paulo
    £50.00
    Psychedelia meets Black Power, sexual liberation meets social conscience, and street portraiture meets fantastical carto... SEE MORE
    Psychedelia meets Black Power, sexual liberation meets social conscience, and street portraiture meets fantastical cartoon in this epic volume of groove. Complete with cultural context, desi... SEE MORE
  • Rock Covers
    Jonathan Kirby
    £50.00
    Rock Covers brings you more than 750 album covers that made rock history. From legendary to rare releases, from Elvis Pr... SEE MORE
    Rock Covers brings you more than 750 album covers that made rock history. From legendary to rare releases, from Elvis Presley to Iron Maiden, these indelible markers of musical memory are ac... SEE MORE

Pop & Rock Musicians

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The Dark Stuff
The Hacienda
Indian Sun
Indian Sun
£12.99
Beeswing
Beeswing
£9.99
Sing Backwards and Weep
Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk
£10.99
Lonely Boy
Lonely Boy
£10.99
The Butterfly Effect
Heavier Than Heaven
Me
Me
£12.99
Girl in a Band
Revolution in the Head
Boy on Fire
Confess
Confess
£14.99
Le Freak
Le Freak
£12.99
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.
Remain in Love
Another Planet

33 1/3 Series

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Björk's Homogenic
David Bowie's Diamond Dogs
The National's Boxer
The Raincoats' The Raincoats
Donna Summer's Once Upon a Time
Manic Street Preachers’ The Holy Bible
Angelo Badalamenti's Soundtrack from Twin Peaks
Hole's Live Through This
D’Angelo’s Voodoo
Siouxsie and the Banshees' Peepshow
Miles Davis' Bitches Brew
Koji Kondo's Super Mario Bros. Soundtrack
Sigur Rós's ( )
Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Can's Tago Mago
The Modern Lovers' The Modern Lovers
The Pharcyde's Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde
Gang of Four's Entertainment!

Jazz Writing

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But Beautiful
The History of Jazz
As Serious As Your Life
On Jazz
On Jazz
£20.00
How to Listen to Jazz
The Penguin Jazz Guide
Ugly Beauty: Jazz in the 21st Century
The Cover Art of Blue Note Records
Hard Bop
Hard Bop
£12.99
Early Jazz
Early Jazz
£18.99
All What Jazz
Jazz and Cricket
The Jazz Standards
Black Music
Living with Music
A History of Jazz in Britain, 1919-50
A Power Stronger Than Itself
Sittin' In
Sittin' In
£30.00

Jazz Biographies

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Lady Sings the Blues
Coltrane
Coltrane
£9.99
Bessie Smith
Miles
Miles
£14.99
What Happened, Miss Simone?
R. Crumb Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country
Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer
Kind of Blue
A Love Supreme
Bill Evans
Bill Evans
£17.99
Beneath The Underdog
Straight Life: The Story Of Art Pepper
The Long Shadow of the Little Giant
Herbie Hancock: Possibilities
Footprints
Footprints
£13.99
Deep In A Dream
Ornette Coleman

Classical Music & Opera

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Absolutely on Music
A Sound Mind
Year of Wonder: Classical Music for Every Day
The Lark Ascending
Robert Schumann's Advice to Young Musicians
Lev's Violin
How Shostakovich Changed My Mind
The Complete Classical Music Guide
A History of Opera
Symphonies for the Soul
Chopin's Piano
Opera for Everybody
The Bach Cello Suites
The Classical Music Lover's Companion to Orchestral Music
A Mad Love
A Mad Love
£30.00
The Lost Pianos of Siberia
The Gilded Stage
Schubert's Winter Journey
Another Year of Wonder
Opera
Opera
£17.99

Opera and Classical Music in Fiction

  • Midsummer Nights: Tales from the Opera
    Jeanette Winterson
    £9.99
    Specially commissioned short story collection with stellar contributors, all based on the stories behind favourite opera... SEE MORE
    Specially commissioned short story collection with stellar contributors, all based on the stories behind favourite operas. SEE MORE
  • The Ghost of Frédéric Chopin
    Eric Faye
    £9.99
    In this mesmerising novel from the award-winning author of Nagasaki, a journalist in 1990s Prague investigates a story o... SEE MORE
    In this mesmerising novel from the award-winning author of Nagasaki, a journalist in 1990s Prague investigates a story of a woman with no musical education who produces masterful composition... SEE MORE
  • Conversations With Beethoven
    Sanford Friedman
    £15.99
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  • The Noise of Time
    Julian Barnes
    £9.99
    In May 1937, a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the nigh... SEE MORE
    In May 1937, a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has k... SEE MORE
  • The Bloater
    Rosemary Tonks
    £9.99
    WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY STEWART LEE'Should The Bloater be republished? Oh God, absolutely, it's fantastic' Stewart Le... SEE MORE
    WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY STEWART LEE'Should The Bloater be republished? Oh God, absolutely, it's fantastic' Stewart LeeMin works at the BBC as an audio engineer, where she is struggling to... SEE MORE
  • The Queen of the Night
    Alexander Chee
    £12.99
    Recommended by The Observer . . . 'One doesn't so much read it, as one is bewitched by it. Epic, gorgeous, haunting' HAN... SEE MORE
    Recommended by The Observer . . . 'One doesn't so much read it, as one is bewitched by it. Epic, gorgeous, haunting' HANYA YANAGIHARA, author of A Little LifeWhen it begins, it begins as an ... SEE MORE

Composers & Performers

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Wagner's Parsifal
Beethoven
Beethoven
£10.99
The Lives and Times of the Great Composers
Handel in London
Debussy
Debussy
£16.99
Beethoven
Beethoven
£9.99
Cast a Diva
Verdi and/or Wagner
The Ring of the Nibelung
Why Mahler?
Music in the Castle of Heaven
Jonas Kaufmann
Chopin
Chopin
£12.99
Schumann
Schumann
£14.99
Benjamin Britten
Michael Tippett
Elgar: Child of Dreams
Testimony
Testimony
£14.99
Wagnerism
Wagnerism
£20.00
Mozart
Mozart
£15.99

Overture Guides

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Cosi fan tutte
Parsifal
Parsifal
£12.00
Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Otello (Othello)
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg)
Norma
Norma
£12.00
Rigoletto
Rigoletto
£12.00
Don Giovanni
Der Der fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman)
La bohème
La bohème
£12.00
La Traviata
Eugene Onegin
Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
Carmen
Carmen
£12.00
Simon Boccanegra
Tosca
Tosca
£12.00
Boris Godunov
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg)
Pelleas & Melisande

Learn to Play

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The Right Way to Read Music
How to Write One Song
It's never too late to play piano (Adult Tutor Book)
How to Play the Piano
The Inner Game of Music
Understand Music Theory: Teach Yourself
Guitar All-in-One For Dummies
Improve Your Piano Playing
John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course 1
Play It Again
The Jazz Piano Book
Ukulele For Dummies
Musical Composition
Keyboard For Dummies

Studies in Sound

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Sounds Wild and Broken
The Musical Human
This is Your Brain on Music
This Is What It Sounds Like
How Music Works
Ocean of Sound
The Listening Service
Every Song Ever
Infinite Music – Imagining the Next Millennium of Human Music–Making
Understanding Music
Mars by 1980
Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom
Two Beats Ahead
How Music Works
Music and Politics
The Northern Silence
Uncommon Measure
The World in Six Songs
Turn On, Tune In, Drift Off
Fear of Music - Why People Get Rothko But Don`t Get Stockhausen

Dance

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Ballet
Ballet
£30.00
Ballroom
Ballroom
£20.00
Rudolf Nureyev
Darcey Bussell: Evolved
Strictly Ballroom
Ballerina Project
Apollo's Angels
The Faber Pocket Guide to Ballet
Craig Revel Horwood's Ballroom Dancing
La Nijinska
Matthew Bourne and His Adventures in Dance
The Meaning Of Tango
Being a Dancer
Swan Dive
Swan Dive
£18.99
Ballet and Modern Dance
Michael Clark
The Ballet Companion
Nijinsky
Nijinsky
£12.99
Life in Motion
Dance Anatomy

Musical Theatre

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Musicals
Musicals
£30.00
Hamilton: The Revolution
Unmasked
Unmasked
£12.99
The Faber Pocket Guide to Musicals
The Golden Age Musicals of Darryl F. Zanuck
Musical Theatre
Stephen Sondheim
Broadway Musicals, Show by Show
Breaking into Song: Why You Shouldn't Hate Musicals
Turn Around and Take a Bow!
Rise Up!
Rise Up!
£23.99
How Musicals Work
Les Misérables
West Side Story
So You Want To Be In Musicals?
The Cambridge Companion to the Musical
The Oxford Handbook of The American Musical