I Blew it my Way: Bebop, Big Bands and Sinatra Allison McVety

I Blew it my Way: Bebop, Big Bands and Sinatra Allison McVetyPreface by Michael Parkinson Vic Ash, saxophonist and clarinettist, worked with the great popular musicians and entertainers. In this book he tells his fascinating stories of show business life, of touring with George Shearing, Shirley MacLaine, Fred Astaire, Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis Junior, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Liza Minnelli and for more than 20 years with Frank Sinatra. As a first choice saxophonist and clarinettist for the

This collection of essays by academics from Britain and other European countries

Inua Ellams

and those that are remote from the north of Scotland

In April 2013 MPT is relaunching: a handsome rebrand which looks back to the strong designs of the 1960s and 70s with bible paper and a commissioned cover illustration for each issue by young international artists

and Mahmoud Shukair

For the past number of years he has lived in Europe

and poems for children to produce the full range of this marvellous writer and his enduring work

Poems: We Used to Lack a Present

unlike his father

narratives of thwarted desire and a sequence of poems which explore the dynamics and historical by-ways of the waltz

of a spiritual — even religious — dimension that afford glimpses of a transcendent world and bring peace of mind to the beleaguered soul

Awad Nasir