Historia y biografías
The Faber Pocket Guide to Ballet
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Deborah Bull was a Principal Dancer with The Royal Ballet, noted for her performances in the works of Forsythe and MacMillan. She is now Creative Director of the Royal Opera House as well as a writer and broadcaster. She has written and presented several programmes for BBC TV and radio, including (...)
Conundrum
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As one of Britain's best and most loved travel writers, Jan Morris has led an extraordinary life. Perhaps her most remarkable work is this grippingly honest account of her ten-year transition from man to woman - its pains and joys, its frustrations and discoveries. On first publication in 1974, the (...)
Admirals
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The true story of how Britain s maritime power helped gain this country unparalleled dominance of the world s economy, Admirals celebrates the rare talents of the men who shaped the most successful fighting force in world history. Told through the lives and battles of eleven of our most remarkable (...)
Humphrey's Tiny Tales Book 1: My Pet Show Panic!
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Dear friends,I LOVE-LOVE-LOVE sharing my adventures as a classroom hamster with all my friends. But sometimes my paw gets tired from so much writing!To give it a rest, I ve written some shorter tales that are every bit as funny and exciting as my According to Humphrey books. They re called Humphrey (...)
Hallelujah Junction
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John Adams is one of the most admired and performed living composers. A musician of enormous range and technical command, he has built a huge audience worldwide through the immediacy and sincerity of his music. Hallelujah Junction isn t so much an autobiography as a fascinating journey through the (...)
The Royal Ballet: 75 Years
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In 1931, Ninette de Valois started a ballet company with just six dancers. Within twenty years, the Royal Ballet - as it became was established as one of the world s great companies. It has produced celebrated dancers, from Margot Fonteyn to Darcey Bussell, and one of the richest repertoires in (...)
The Syme Papers
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Douglas Pitt is a man obsessed. Laughed at, mocked, and dismissed at every turn, Pitt has dedicated the best part of an unremarkable academic career attempting to prove the genius of Samuel Highgate Syme (b.1794, Baltimore; soldier, geologist, inventor). Pitt's postulation is simple enough: Syme, (...)
Venetian Navigators
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In the 1380s and 90s, Nicolò and Antonio Zen journeyed from Venice up the North Atlantic, encountering warrior princes, fighting savage natives and, just possibly, reaching the New World a full century before Columbus. The story of their adventure travelled throughout Europe, from the workshop of (...)
The Painter
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The fashionables, they tell me their artistic opinion. They just want to know if a painting is hot. Whether it will gain. And then they criticise anyone who is different, anyone who s not on the direct route to taste. Fuck em.Turner, the English romantic landscape artist and painter of light , (...)
The Knowledge
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