An exhilarating moment in an otherwise quiet stretch of autumn:
Jenny Colgan has chosen my piano book as one of her Books of the Year in The Spectator (the print edition comes out on 13 November).
She calls it ‘one of the two most beautiful books I got my hands on this year.’
One can’t assume that writers have books on classical music on their piles of reading material, so this is a delightful surprise.
By a strange coincidence, the 'Long Read' by investigative journalist Snigdha Poonam in today's Guardian is on the very subject that...
A little while ago I reported that my Nocturnes book was longlisted for a Saltire prize (the Saltires are Scotland's National Book...
My new CD, Women and the Piano, a sort of audio companion to my 2024 book on the same subject, is released today by Hyperion Records....
Excellent news – and very well deserved!