Adrian D Wright

This specially priced two volume set brings together Adrian Wright's highly acclaimed two books on the Musical in Post-War Britain. A Tanner's Worth of Tune is not an encyclopaedia of the British musical in the twentieth century, but an examination of its progress as it struggled to find an identity...

A Tanner's Worth of Tune is the first book to be written on the post-war British musical, and the first major assessment of the British musical for a quarter of a century, reviving interest in a vast archive of musicals that have been dismissed to the footnotes of theatrical history. This timely rea...

West End Broadway' is the first book to deal specifically with the 'Golden Age' of American musicals in London. Here is a history and a re-evaluation not only of the British productions of Broadway's most popular product but of the works themselves, beginning with a brief account of the origins of t...

DEATH AT THE TITANIC is a crime and mystery story about risk, exploitation, love and greed. Jack Stagg, former SAS, is a novice private investigator, fresh from the killing fields of Iraq and bored with his failing business. Into his office walks Laura Walters, an haute-coutured and attractive woman...

In May 1925, the Society of Glass Technology hosted a Symposium on the Constitution of Glass. This seems to have been the very first meeting, with an international participation, dedicated specifically to the constitution of glass, and is of exceptional interest because it provides a unique summary ...

This book is the first full-scale biography of William Alwyn since his death in 1985. Alwyn's early life as a flautist was altered when he became a leading composer of the Documentary Film Movement in the 1930s, going on to a prolific career in writing for feature films, including commissions for Wa...

Drawing on exclusive access to unpublished private papers, a biography of novelist Leslie Poles Hartley, covering his life and work from his childhood at Fletton Tower, Peterborough, his relationship with his mother, his experiences in the Great War, his homes in Venice, Bath and London, and his str...

This biography looks at the off-screen life of the actor Kevin Costner and his tenacious climb to the top of the Hollywood tree. The book also includes a discussion of all Costner's work to date, including hit films such as "The Untouchables", "Robin Hood" and "Dances with Wolves". Adrian Wright is ...