David Nice

He Changed His Tune

Wulff: Britten’s Young Apollo

By Tony Scotland

Suzi Feay

All Yesterday’s Parties

You are Beautiful and You are Alone: The Biography of Nico

By Jennifer Otter Bickerdike

Andrew Lycett

All the Raga

Indian Sun: The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar

By Oliver Craske

Rupert Christiansen

Deus Minimis

Poulenc: A Biography

By Roger Nichols

Poulenc: The Life in the Songs

By Graham Johnson

Harriet Murphy

One Woman or Another, What’s the Difference?

Lotte Lenya: A Life

By Donald Spoto

Pete Clark

The King Who Liked his Hamburgers Well Done

Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley

By Peter Guralnick

Jasper Rees

The Divided Elf

Alias David Bowie

By Peter & Leni Gillman

Yvonne Sherratt

Child of His Time

Michael Tippett: The Biography

By Oliver Soden

Adam Zamoyski

Muddled Muse

Alma Mahler, Muse to Genius

By Karen Monson

William Palmer

Miles from Nowhere

So What: The Life of Miles Davis

By John Szwed

Roger Scruton

A New Human World

Janacek

By Mirka Zemanova

Benjamin Ivry

Enlightening Conductor

Toscanini: Musician of Conscience

By Harvey Sachs

Charles Miller

Not Verbally Comfortable

Prince: A Pop Life

By Dave Hill

Daniel Matlin

Lady Sings the Blues

Billie Holiday: The Musician & the Myth

By John Szwed

Patrick O'Connor

Opera’s Renegades

Puccini: A Biography

By Mary Jane Phillips-Matz

Edgard Varese

By Alan Clayson

William Palmer

Music to Make You Smile

Stéphane Grappelli: With and Without Django

By Paul Balmer

Simon Heffer

Music to Uncle Joe’s Ears

Shostakovich and Stalin: The Extraordinary Relationship Between the Great Composer and the Brutal Dictator

By Solomon Volkov