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I've been reading an interesting book, which I'm reviewing for BBC Music Magazine. It's Good Music: What It Is and Who Gets to D...

Chopin I n today's Sunday Times I've rounded up six of the best classical music books of the year . Somehow 2018 was a bumper y...

Some personal recommendations for literaromusical gifts this Christmas - though please note, this is a personal selection so there may be qu...

Fantastic piece in today's Independent about one of my favourite authors, Joyce Carol Oates. "Many writers are sad, bookish people ...

I've just heard that the redoubtable A.N. Wilson has written a novel about Winifred Wagner's relationship with Hitler. Entitled Winn...

The BBC's website has today posted an interesting little article about why people try to write novels . I've just sent my No.3, as y...

In other words, the London International Book Fair. I was going to write a long, philosophical post about how one grows up studying literatu...

ALICIA'S GIFT is out today! And I am sitting, unexpectedly, on a balcony in the sunshine, gazing at the Atlantic Ocean. British Airways,...

It's here: the first copy of my new book! As you can see, it's about a little girl with a precocious talent for the piano... Aged th...

I've got a double page spread in The Independent today , a quick look back at 60 years of the Royal Opera. Odd to think that the organis...

I've been a little slow in responding, but the other day Evelio tagged me for this: Find the nearest book. Turn to page 123. Go to the ...

(I was going to post a funny, facetious poem for Xmas. But this is so beautiful that I simply have to use it instead, even though it's n...

This is from Ian McEwan's SATURDAY (published by Vintage Books): There are those rare moments when musicians together touch something sw...

...in Oxford, and it's called Blackwell's. I can't work out exactly why this bookshop is different from all other bookshops - so...

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who got 'stuck' trying to read JD Landis's 'Longing' - Richard responds to ...

I spent yesterday afternoon at an event associated with the London Book Fair, which is in full swing from today through Tuesday at Olympia. ...

OK, OK, OK. I said I would be recommending books and CDs from time to time and a delicate correspondent has now told me that I don't do ...

I'm informed of the following: first, my PDF download section doesn't work. I couldn't figure out how to get it to work, so I&#...

It's Dvorak's birthday - he would have been 163 today... My article about him for The Indy came out on Monday to trail today's ...

I've just been reading Alex Ross's article 'Listen to this' from The New Yorker, which you can find on his Blog. It's a ...