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Essential Christmas presents
Hungarian DancesHungarian Dances by Jessica Duchen
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01
Grippingly glorious story about Englishness versus Hungarianness, passion and music versus family bonds. Wonderfully written.
Hungarian DancesHungarian Dances
Buy new: £12.69 / Used from: £8.75
The CD that complements the above novel 'Hungarian Dances' - phenomenal violin playing! CD and book are perfect partners.
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the BrainMusicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
Buy used from: £2.93
The most intriguing case studies since Freud?
O Thou Transcendent - The Life Of Ralph Vaughan Williams [2007] [DVD]O Thou Transcendent - The Life Of Ralph Vaughan Williams [2007] [DVD]
Buy new: £14.88 / Used from: £17.93
Tony Palmer's marvellous documentary, bringing Vaughan Williams to life.
The White TigerThe White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Buy new: £7.77 / Used from: £1.02
Essential reading. Deserved the Booker that it won.
A Thousand Splendid SunsA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Buy new: £4.96 / Used from: £0.01
Powerful stuff, painful yet inspiring.
The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth CenturyThe Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross
Buy new: £13.06 / Used from: £10.06
Brilliant discussion of music in the 20th century
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and InheritanceDreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
Buy new: £4.43 / Used from: £1.70
Unmissable!
The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's RussiaThe Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia by Orlando Figes
Buy new: £8.47 / Used from: £2.00
Fascinating account of real life under the Russian dictator
EmbersEmbers by Sandor Marai
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £0.01
Spare and atmospheric, this is a stunning novel by the leading Hungarian author