Fiction:

‘Music and Silence’ – Rose Tremain

‘An Equal Music’ – Vikram Seth

‘Grace Notes’ – Bernard Mac Laverty

‘A Disturbance of the Inner Ear’ – Joyce Hackett

‘The Song of Names’ – Norman Lebrecht

‘The Concert Pianist’ – Conrad Williams

‘Longing’ – J D Landis (a novel recreating the extraordinary love affair between Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck)

‘The Page Turner’ – David Leavitt

‘The Language of Others’ – Claire Morall

Non-fiction

‘Piano Notes’ – Charles Rosen

‘The Piano Shop on the Left Bank’ – T E Carhart

‘Grand Obsession’ – Perri Knize

‘With Your Own Two Hands’ – Seymour Bernstein

‘Notes from the Pianist’s Bench’ – Boris Berman

‘Piano’ – Louis Kentner

‘Piano Lessons: Music, Love & True Adventures’ – Noah Adams

‘A Musician’s Alphabet’ – Susan Tomes

‘Beyond the Notes’ – Susan Tomes

‘Chopin’s Funeral’ – Benita Eisler

‘Mozart and the Pianist’ – Michael Davidson

‘The Beethoven Sonatas and the Creative Experience’ – Kenneth Drake

‘Note by Note: A Celebration of the Piano Lesson’ – Tricia Tunstall

‘The Inner Game of Music’ – Barry Green

‘Sviatoslav Richter: Notebooks and Conversations’ – Bruno Monsaingeon