City of Night Birds Tim Hochstrasser 10/01/2025 4164This is Juhea Kim’s second novel, and it is both a technically accomplished and highly accessible, compelling read. The story...
Antonio Pappano: My Life In Music Rivka Jacobson 13/07/2024 4523Antonio Pappano’s autobiography, “My Life In Music,” offers an engaging and insightful journey through the life of one of the...
BOOK REVIEW The Sleeping Beauties Tim Hochstrasser 23/03/2024 4626‘Sleeping Beauties’ is Lucy Ashe’s second novel, coming swiftly after ‘Clara & Olivia’, reviewed here last year. It explores similar...
Reviewer's Rating Clara & Olivia by Lucy Ashe Tim Hochstrasser 19/02/2023 3819This original and exquisitely written novel is a highly accomplished debut from Lucy Ashe. Lucy trained at the Royal Ballet...
Reviewer's Rating Pick A Pocket or Two – A History of British Musical Theatre By Ethan Mordden Tim Hochstrasser 22/02/2022 4314This new and welcome study of the history of the musical in Britain fills -incredibly – a major gap in...
Reviewer's rating CARY GRANT The Making Of A Hollywood Legend by Mark Glancy Mel Cooper 17/01/2022 4587“Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant!” said Cary Grant. And that is pretty...
Breaking into Song: why you shouldn’t hate musicals Grace Creaton-Barber 04/09/2021 4306I was so excited to read this book and to come away fully equipped with the verbal ammunition I need...
0% The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando (New York: Harper Collins, 2019) Mel Cooper 03/10/2019 5517Central to the post-World War II generation of pioneer artists who helped redefine the practice and purpose of theatre, Marlon...
Reviewer's rating The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 – The Musical Nelly Wolman 05/07/2019 5859This musical adaptation of the late Sue Townsend’s novel immerses you in the urban East Midlands of the early Thatcherite...
High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic Mel Cooper 25/04/2017 5369This book is a fascinating companion to Victor Navasky’s Naming Names, which was a fairly comprehensive general history of that...
