David Hughes

Roz Southey

Margaret Maddison

Charles Avison (1709-1770) was a remarkable Tyneside musician who became England's one of the most important 18th-century concerto composer. This book presents the biography of this talented composer.

Making Music and Money in Eighteenth Century Newcastle

The Ingenious Mr. Avison

Scorcher

In Newcastle upon Tyne in the 1730s, life is not easy for an impoverished musician. For Charles Patterson, violinist, harpsichord player, composer and would-be church organist, it's about to get a whole lot harder. First he is accused of stealing a valuable book. Then a cherished violin belonging to his flamboyant rival, Henri le Sac, disappears, rapidly followed by le Sac himself. And when the young apprentice he inherited from his rival is gruesomely murdered, Patterson starts to feel out of his depth. Strange goings-on at the home of capricious Lady Anne leave him in fear for his health and sanity, and the lady's cousin, Esther Jerdoun, seems to be trying to warn him about something. The mystery deepens as the death toll mounts and it becomes clear that things are not quite as they appear ...

Broken Harmony

Stephanie Carter

Kirsten Gibson

This collection situates the North-East within a developing nationwide account of British musical culture.

Roz Southey

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