Letters of Note: Music
- 5 Mar 2020
- 9781786895592
- £6.99
- 144 pp
- 111×178mm
- 5 Mar 2020
- 9781786895585
- £4.79
- 144 pp
- 5 Mar 2020
- 9781838850128
- £20.99
- 2 hrs 30 min
In a few words
A compulsive collection of the world’s most entertaining, inspiring and powerful letters with music at their heart, curated by the founder of the global phenomenon lettersofnote.com
In a few words
A compulsive collection of the world’s most entertaining, inspiring and powerful letters with music at their heart, curated by the founder of the global phenomenon lettersofnote.com
In a few words
A compulsive collection of the world’s most entertaining, inspiring and powerful letters with music at their heart, curated by the founder of the global phenomenon lettersofnote.com
Praise for Shaun Usher:
Another mailbag stuffed with funny, heartbreaking and passionate letters . . . engaging, eclectic, geekily and gleefully enthusiastic and laugh-out-loud funny
Shaun Usher's More Letters of Note mines the archives for more gems of the epistolary arts
Praise for Shaun Usher:
Another mailbag stuffed with funny, heartbreaking and passionate letters . . . engaging, eclectic, geekily and gleefully enthusiastic and laugh-out-loud funny
Shaun Usher's More Letters of Note mines the archives for more gems of the epistolary arts
Praise for Shaun Usher:
Another mailbag stuffed with funny, heartbreaking and passionate letters . . . engaging, eclectic, geekily and gleefully enthusiastic and laugh-out-loud funny
Shaun Usher's More Letters of Note mines the archives for more gems of the epistolary arts
More about
the book
In Letters of Note: Music, Shaun Usher brings together a riveting collection of letters by and about some of the musicians and music that enrich our lives. It is a wonderfully wide-ranging and illuminating book that will delight music lovers of all stripes.
Includes letters by:
Ludgwig van Beethoven, Nick Cave,
Helen Keller, Keith Richards,
Yo-Yo Ma, Tom Waits, Erik Satie,
Angélique Kidjo, Leonard Cohen
John Coltrane, Kim Gordon
& many more
More about
the book
In Letters of Note: Music, Shaun Usher brings together a riveting collection of letters by and about some of the musicians and music that enrich our lives. It is a wonderfully wide-ranging and illuminating book that will delight music lovers of all stripes.
Includes letters by:
Ludgwig van Beethoven, Nick Cave,
Helen Keller, Keith Richards,
Yo-Yo Ma, Tom Waits, Erik Satie,
Angélique Kidjo, Leonard Cohen
John Coltrane, Kim Gordon
& many more
More about
the book
In Letters of Note: Music, Shaun Usher brings together a riveting collection of letters by and about some of the musicians and music that enrich our lives. Wonderfully wide-ranging and illuminating, it will delight music lovers of all stripes.
A star-studded cast of readers brings the letters to life, with contributions from Sanjeev Bhaskar, Louise Brealey, Simon Callow, Nick Cave, Crystal Clarke, Benedict Cumberbatch, Adrian Edmondson, Stephen Fry, Danny Huston, Toby Jones, Jude Law, Stephen Mangan, Miriam Margolyes, Clarke Peters, Juliet Stevenson and Mark Strong.
The collection features letters by Nick Cave, Helen Keller, Keith Richards, Leonard Cohen, John Coltrane, Kim Gordon and many more.
Letters of Note: Music also includes audio exclusive bonus content drawn from recordings made at performances of Letters Live, the live events series produced by Canongate in partnership with SunnyMarch and Shaun Usher. Savour Jarvis Cocker reading Iggy Pop’s letter to a fan named Laurence and Matt Berry reading Robert Crumb’s letter to free jazz saxophonist Mats Gustafsson.
A donation will be made to The National Literacy Trust – one of the regular partner charities for Letters Live – for each audiobook sold.
Praise for Shaun Usher:
Funny, tragic, brilliantly incisive, historic, lyrical, romantic and studiedly offensive, this stupendous compendium of letters ancient and modern is my book of the year. You will never tire of it
Stephen Fry
From the genuinely funny: Marge Simpson duelling with First Lady Barbara Bush to the truly heart-breaking: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg's last goodbye to their children before execution. Usher's book is unlike anything else you have read. After all, where else can you find out why Norman Mailer refused money to his father, or how Janis Joplin felt before breaking America? Exactly
Funny, shocking and poignant, More Letters of Note must be one of the most entertaining books of the year
Some of the letters will make you laugh, other heartbreaking examples will make you cry
Praise for Shaun Usher:
Funny, tragic, brilliantly incisive, historic, lyrical, romantic and studiedly offensive, this stupendous compendium of letters ancient and modern is my book of the year. You will never tire of it'
Stephen Fry
From the genuinely funny: Marge Simpson duelling with First Lady Barbara Bush to the truly heart-breaking: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg's last goodbye to their children before execution. Usher's book is unlike anything else you have read. After all, where else can you find out why Norman Mailer refused money to his father, or how Janis Joplin felt before breaking America? Exactly
Funny, shocking and poignant, More Letters of Note must be one of the most entertaining books of the year
Some of the letters will make you laugh, other heartbreaking examples will make you cry
Praise for Shaun Usher:
Funny, tragic, brilliantly incisive, historic, lyrical, romantic and studiedly offensive, this stupendous compendium of letters ancient and modern is my book of the year. You will never tire of it'
Stephen Fry
From the genuinely funny: Marge Simpson duelling with First Lady Barbara Bush to the truly heart-breaking: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg's last goodbye to their children before execution. Usher's book is unlike anything else you have read. After all, where else can you find out why Norman Mailer refused money to his father, or how Janis Joplin felt before breaking America? Exactly
Funny, shocking and poignant, More Letters of Note must be one of the most entertaining books of the year
Some of the letters will make you laugh, other heartbreaking examples will make you cry
Shaun Usher
View profileShaun Usher is a writer and sole custodian of the popular blogs lettersofnote.com and listsofnote.com. He has transformed both blogs into bestselling books, crowd-funded by Unbound and jointly published by Unbound and Canongate. He lives in Wilmslow with his wife Karina and their two sons. He is the author of the bestselling Letters of Note, More Letters of Note, Lists of Note and Speeches of Note. Along with Simon Garfield’s To the Letter, Letters of Note inspired Letters Live, a series of live performances celebrating the enduring power of literary correspondence, with great performers reading remarkable letters to a live audience.
@LettersOfNote | lettersofnote.com | shaunusher.com | letterslive.com
Shaun Usher
View profileShaun Usher is a writer and sole custodian of the popular blogs lettersofnote.com and listsofnote.com. He has transformed both blogs into bestselling books, crowd-funded by Unbound and jointly published by Unbound and Canongate. He lives in Wilmslow with his wife Karina and their two sons. He is the author of the bestselling Letters of Note, More Letters of Note, Lists of Note and Speeches of Note. Along with Simon Garfield’s To the Letter, Letters of Note inspired Letters Live, a series of live performances celebrating the enduring power of literary correspondence, with great performers reading remarkable letters to a live audience.
@LettersOfNote | lettersofnote.com | shaunusher.com | letterslive.com
Shaun Usher
View profileShaun Usher is a writer and sole custodian of the popular blogs lettersofnote.com and listsofnote.com. He has transformed both blogs into bestselling books, crowd-funded by Unbound and jointly published by Unbound and Canongate. He lives in Wilmslow with his wife Karina and their two sons. He is the author of the bestselling Letters of Note, More Letters of Note, Lists of Note and Speeches of Note. Along with Simon Garfield’s To the Letter, Letters of Note inspired Letters Live, a series of live performances celebrating the enduring power of literary correspondence, with great performers reading remarkable letters to a live audience.
lettersofnote.com | shaunusher.com | letterslive.com | @LettersOfNote
