Books by Howard Goodall

Accompanies BBC2's TV series and The Story of Music in 50 Pieces on Radio 3. The author leads us through the story of music as it happened, idea by idea, so that each musical innovation - harmony, notation, sung theatre, the orchestra, dance music, recording, broadcasting - strikes us with its original force.

A novel set in Cumberland between 1889 and the 1920s and telling the story of one man's struggle to break free from the status of a 'hired man'. The first part of the CUMBRIAN TRILOGY.

The dramatic story of five key turning points in a thousand years of Western music - discoveries that changed the course of history.