An entertaining and affecting memoir of the great pianist's youth and early training, which began in a suburb of post-war Liverpool. Told with candour and simplicity.
Uses Beethoven's music to tell the story of his life; a zestful account, told in short chapters though a hundred pieces of music and recommended recordings.
KL was Creative Director at Chanel for thirty-five years; as seen through glasses darkly. WM, a well known fashion journalist, knew him for many years.
Gorer met Fran?ois 'F?ral' Benga, the great Senegalese dancer, in the interwar artistic community of Paris in 1934. This is a re-issue of Gorer's remarkable account of their travels around W... read more
By extraordinary chance, the author discovered an address book in the inner pocket of a vintage diary dating back to 1951. It disclosed an amazing list of luminaries from the European avant-... read more
Ostensibly about the life of the Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras, this beautifully illustrated volume examines the idea that harmony and beauty are not only inherent in the wo... read more
In 1864 the Austrian Archduke Maximilian went to assume a distant throne. The operatic episode ended in his death by firing squad, famously memorialised by Manet.
A re-issue of this charming, episodic memoir of the great illustrator's early life, filled with his sketches; he himself called it "an autobiographical fragment". Published here in a pocket... read more
Born in Victorian Sydney, she was presented at Court to Queen Victoria and then married a Prussian count. The marriage was unhappy, and her subsequent marriage to Bertrand Russell's brother ... read more
New edition of a remarkable memoir by an Italian-born American, first published in 1954, which describes how it was to live in Nazi-occupied Budapest in 1943-45.