A History of Opera - The Last Four Hundred Years

Carolyn Abbate; Roger Parker

Abbate and Parker's A History of Opera is the first full new history of opera in sixty years - now in paperback in an updated second edition. "The best single volume ever written on the subject". (The Times Literary Supplement). Why has opera transfixed and fascinated audiences for centuries? Carolyn Ab...

Everything to Live For: The Inspirational Story of Turia Pitt

Turia Pitt

In September 2011, Turia Pitt, a beautiful 25-year-old mining engineer working her dream job in the far north of Western Australia, entered an ultra-marathon race that would change her life forever. Trapped by a fire in a gorge in the remote Kimberly region, Turia and five other competitors had nowhere ...