Yazar: Matthew Head

In the German states in the late eighteenth century, women flourished as musical performers and composers, their achievements measuring the progress of culture and society from barbarism to civilizat …

When a Belgian beauty dies in the Congo, "sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued Dr. Mary Finney" is on the case in this "witty, well-written" mystery from 1950 (The New York Times).It doesn’t …

A medical missionary in post-WWII Paris is out to solve the murder of a nightclub singer in this 1955 mystery by the author of The Devil in the Bush.   Paris at the height of its post-War chic i …

Howard Skempton has contributed to British musical life for more than half a century, as composer, performer and commentator. His music is characterised by simplicity yet sophistication and is apprec …

Offers an intimate view of a contemporary composer’s creative world and how others may interpret it. Howard Skempton has contributed to British musical life for more than half a century, as composer, …

Matthew Head explores the cultural meanings of Mozart’s Turkish music in the composer’s 18th-century context, in subsequent discourses of Mozart’s significance for ‘Western’ culture, and in today’s ( …

Matthew Head explores the cultural meanings of Mozart’s Turkish music in the composer’s 18th-century context, in subsequent discourses of Mozart’s significance for ‘Western’ culture, and in today’s ( …

The Accomplice, first published in 1947 as part of the Inner Sanctum Suspense Specials, is a psychological crime thriller in the mode of Ruth Rendell or Patricia Highsmith. The plot centers on Hank B …

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