Books by Mark Berry

The story of ocean liners brought to life by objects and ephemera, revealing life on board, luxury and magnificence, and peril and disaster

Offers histories of music drama beginning with Wagner's Parsifal and then looking at works by Arnold Schoenberg, Richard Strauss, Luigi Dallapiccola, Luigi Nono and Hans Werner Henze.

Explores the political and religious ideas expounded in Wagner's 'Ring' through an attention to this text and drama, the multifarious intellectual influences upon the composer during the work's lengthy gestation and composition. It considers Wagner's treatment of various worlds: nature, politics, economics, and metaphysics.