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As a football-mad young boy growing up in rural Shropshire, within
sight of the Welsh border, Dave Edwards dreamt of playing the game
professionally and perhaps, one day, of wearing the red shirt of
his father's homeland - Wales. Living My Dream is the frank and
fascinating story of just what it took for Edwards to achieve his
life's ambition, and describes how his dedication and commitment to
the game he loves has enabled him to enjoy a successful 16-year
career with over 400 club appearances for Shrewsbury, Luton, Wolves
and Reading, spanning the top five English divisions from the
Conference to the Premier League. Woven into the story of his club
career, Living My Dream is also a behind-the-scenes account of
Dave's brave recovery, after a serious injury in January 2016, to
make the starting line-up in Wales' opening game at that summer's
European Championships, and his magical month inside the Welsh camp
when the team exceeded all expectations to reach the semi-finals.
The first member of the Welsh squad to tell the inside story of
life at the Euros, Edwards reveals how the players thrived within
the camp's 'bubble' and forged an unbreakable team spirit, how
Chris Coleman managed his squad with meticulous planning and
inspirational leadership, and how the Together Stronger ethos was
spurred on by the passion and pride of an entire nation.
Brahms Among Friends identifies patterns of listening, performance,
and composition among close friends of Johannes Brahms and explores
how those patterns informed the creation and reception of his music
in the intimate genres of song, sonata, trio, and piano miniature.
Among the tangled threads of counterpoint and circumstance that
bound Brahms to his acquaintances was the technique of allusive
musical borrowing, whereby a brief passage from a familiar work was
drawn into the fabric of a new composition. For the specific
listeners whose habits of mind and musicianship he knew best,
allusive borrowings could become rhetorically charged gestures,
persuasively revising the meanings his music conveyed and the
interpretive strategies it invited. Primary documents, original
manuscripts, music-analytic comparison, and kinesthetic parameters
experienced in the act of performance all work in tandem to support
ten case studies in the interplay between Brahms's small-scale
works and the women and men who encountered them before
publication. Central characters include violinist Joseph Joachim,
singers Amalie Joachim, Julius Stockhausen, and Agathe von Siebold,
composers Heinrich and Elisabeth von Herzogenberg, and pianists
Emma Engelmann and Clara Schumann. For these musicians and for the
composer himself, Brahms's allusive music served a broad variety of
emotional needs and interpersonal ends. Yet across diverse
repertoire and interdisciplinary correlates ranging from
ethnography to psychoanalysis, each case study furthers a single,
underlying aim: Yet across diverse repertoire and interdisciplinary
correlates ranging from ethnography to psychoanalysis, each case
study furthers a single, underlying aim: to reconstruct the
mutually dependent perspectives of historically situated agents and
restore forgotten features of their communicative landscapes as
bases for both musical and historical scrutiny.
Revolution of Wolves charts the dramatic progress of Wolverhampton
Wanderers both on and off the pitch over the last 20 years,
starting with the club’s first promotion to the Premier League.
From local-born benefactor Sir Jack Hayward to global investment
conglomerate Fosun International, the boardroom changes have been
matched by those in the dugout as Wolves went from a traditional
English-based 4-4-2 team under Dave Jones and Mick McCarthy to a
cosmopolitan European outfit under Nuno Espirito Santo. The book
brings us exclusive interviews with those at the heart of the
story. Alongside all the promotion winners, managers such as Glenn
Hoddle and Paul Lambert give their first interviews about their
time at Wolves. We hear stories from the likes of Paul Ince, Joleon
Lescott, Karl Henry, Conor Coady, Diogo Jota and Ruben Neves as
well as boardroom insight from Jez Moxey, Steve Morgan and Jeff
Shi. Revolution of Wolves is the most comprehensive and
authoritative work ever written about the modern Wolverhampton
Wanderers.
The definitive biography of Vera Brittain, acclaimed author of
Testament of Youth. With a new introduction by Mark Bostridge.
'Riveting and authoritative' Kate Figes, Independent on Sunday
'Honest, precise and smart' Natasha Walter, Guardian 'They succeed
triumphantly... A fascinating portrait' Fiona MacCarthy, Observer
Vera Brittain is most widely known as the woman who immortalized a
lost generation in her haunting autobiography of the Great War,
Testament of Youth. This biography is the most comprehensive,
authoritative life of one of the most remarkable women of her time.
Based on unpublished papers and first-hand knowledge, the authors
create a candid and sympathetic portrait of the writer, pacifist
and feminist. They reveal the truth about Vera Brittain's
'semi-detached' marriage, her friendship with Winifred Holtby, and
her relationships with her brother Edward and fiance Roland
Leighton, killed in the First World War, memories of whom haunted
her all her days. Shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize, the NCR
Non-Fiction Prize and the Fawcett Prize.
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