Kate Kennedy

Strikingly original The Times Absorbing Wall Street Journal ‘Just as a cello’s voice is divided across four strings, each with its own colour and character, this is a journey in four parts, in search of four players and their instruments...’ In Cello, Kate Kennedy weaves together the lives of four remarkable cellists who suffered various forms of persecution, injury, and...

The first comprehensive biography of an extraordinary English poet and composer whose life was haunted by fighting in the First World War and, later, confinement in a mental asylum. Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) wrote some of the most anthologised poems of the First World War and composed some of the greatest works in the English song repertoire, such as 'Sleep'. Yet...