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Brahms by Paul Holmes
Category: Music SPECIALS | Series: Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers S.
A series of biographies of great composers which present the subjects against a social background of their times. Each book draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings - and - where they exist - photographs, to build up a complete picture of the composer's life
Daughters of Erebus by Paul Holmes
Category: History
The technical side of what happened on Mt Erebus on that fateful November day back in 1979 has been brilliantly explained by Justice Mahon, the Royal Commissioner appointed to investigate the crash of the Air New Zealand DC-10. His magnificent investigation and conclusions were rubbished by a Prime Mini ...Show more
Holst by Paul Holmes
Category: Music SPECIALS | Series: Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers S.
This biography of Holst draws on letters and personal collections, engravings, paintings, and, where they exist, photographs, to present a picture of the composer and teacher.
Patrick Pound Windows by Patrick Pound (Artist); Paul Mylecharane (Designed by); Dan Rule (Editor); Justine Ellis (Editor); Ash Holmes (Associate Editor)
Category: Photography
Patrick Pound collects photographs as if on a dare. For thirty years, the New Zealand-born, Australian artist has been collecting other people’s photographs and placing them in his own peculiar categories. To photograph the world is to collect it in the form of images. Pound’s work seems to propose: ‘ ...Show more
Vaughan Williams by Paul Holmes
Category: Music SPECIALS | Series: Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers S.
This biography draws on letters, diaries and personal reminiscences to tell the story of Vaughan Williams. Williams was heavily involved with the English folk movement, Tudor music and hymns, and his creations combined humour and mysticism.
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