The art and skill of conducting - a guide for music students.

The only date in this history of music is in the title. This leaves space for really important considerations such as the effect of side drum on the Russian Revolution and the influence of the 'Times Atlas' on the development of Opera.

"I write this book with little hope of publication although that is the last consideration in my mind. The first must be that, in the writing of it, that I may be able to make some sense out of the wreckage of my life."

"As soon as the School-bus drew up outside the castle, Jamie felt sure that he'd been there before. He frowned, trying to remember. He was certain that once you got inside the old gate-house there was a wide passage with a curved roof and then fourteen stone steps leading up to the door that no-one was supposed to open."

A classic children's adventure and fantasy tale, unfolding the adventures of a brother and sister as they discover a secret civilisation buried beneath the streets of London. It is a complete departure from anything he had done before.

Travel article published in The Independent newspaper under the byline: "Petra is almost as old as the hills, and it guards its mystery well."

produced at The Cockpit Theatre music: David Sutton-Anderson; words: Lawrence Leonard

"If Liz peered obliquely out of Jules' long bedroom window she could just see him drinking his first Retsina at Lefteri 's, lower down the quay. Behind her, on the rumpled bed, lay her suitcase full of summer dresses and white underclothes."

"'One table collapsible, two chairs ditto, one calor gas cooker, two plates tin, six mugs ditto, knives - (he looks more closely) two.' No forks. (He gets a pencil from his pocket and writes.) No ... forks. No teaspoons either and it's damp."

Adapted by Lawrence Leonard as a play for radio, Gissing's novel "New Grub Street" was first published in 1891.

In an elegant 18th century second-floor room overlooking Parliament Square, London...

"Leo was half a labrador and half a collie, and like most dogs, he was a diplomat. This is a necessary attribute for survival among humans, but Leo was so diplomatic that he managed to survive even amongst diplomats."

The crossroads between fact and fiction, in a short spy story.

"Wherever from, he knew the truth about love as sure as he knew the truth about god, socialism, Zen and the films of Fassbinder."

"It was natural that they chose our village. They need salt water, you see, and the Street is right next to it."