D J Taylor

Sex, Drugs & Poetry

I Wanna Be Yours

By John Cooper Clarke

Miles Kington

A Musician Who is Blacker Than Most

Miles: The Autobiography

By Miles Davis (with Quincy Troupe)

A History of Jazz in Britain, 1950–1970

By Jim Godbolt

Nigel Andrew

Songs from the Cow Shed

The Lark Ascending: The Music of the British Landscape

By Richard King

Patrick O'Connor

The Contrary Contralto

Letters and Diaries of Kathleen Ferrier

By Christopher Fifield (ed)

Simon Heffer

A Bit of Pill

Thomas Beecham: An Obsession with Music

By John Lucas

Alexander Waugh

Loony Tunes

This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession

By Daniel Levitin

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

By Oliver Sacks

Irving Wardle

They Laughed, They Cried

My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall

By John Major

Simon Heffer

Settling Scores

Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century

By Paul Kildea