Product Description: An essential introduction to the life and music of Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven was a complex character who, despite struggling with deafness, was one of the greatest and most influential composers of all time.

Product Description: This beautifully illustrated assessment of Beethoven's tormented but ultimately triumphant life offers an excellent introduction to one of the world's most popular composers. Illuminating the struggles that beset the composer, not least his profound deafness, it shows how he overcame all obstacles to provide his audiences and posterity with some of the most sublime music ever created...read more

Product Description: After a whirlwind romance and a marriage that spanned decades, former face of ITV news, John Suchet, revealed on breakfast television that his beloved wife Bonnie was suffering with dementia, eliciting a huge response. Never had anyone spoken so movingly about dementia, the thief that stole his still youthful wife on the eve of their retirement...read more

Offers an introduction to Beethoven and his music, including a CD with excerpts from his top 20 hits.

Product Description: True Beethoven fans know that Beethoven is the greatest composer of all time, but in recent years Mozart's followers have grabbed most of the good tunes. Beethoven is admired but he is lost in our affection. John Suchet both admires Beethoven and likes him, and his three-volume fictional biography, THE LAST MASTER is a carefully researched labour of love...read more

Product Description: After the phenomenal success of THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, Allan Folsom has created another dazzling thriller of heart-stopping action involving a chillingly credible int'l conspiracy. The Addison brothers, Harry & Danny, have been estranged for many years, but when Danny calls from Rome pleading for Harry to get in touch, his brother doesn't ignore him...read more

The third and concluding volume of the fictional biography of Ludwig van Beethoven. The reader witnesses the great dramas of the composer's final years, as his growing deafness becomes the source for unrelenting misery - and ever more sublime music.

This second volume of a trilogy about the life of Ludwig van Beethoven, depicts the composer at the height of his powers, famous throughout Europe, championed by wealthy patrons, sought out by other musicians, yet all the time beset by the great tragedy of his life - his deafness.

Celebrates the brilliance of the composer's life from birth through the famous Heiligenstadt Testament of 1802