He ended with a wonderfully impetuous, sometimes wild but captivating account of Schumann's "Carnaval".
Ryan presents a captivating account of an intelligent, courageous, determined and capable man.
But they are keenly and sensitively observed, and occasionally even whimsical, as in his captivating account of Kewauna Lerma, a Chicago teenager.
One of the Book Review's 10 best books of 2005, this is a captivating account of the rediscovery, in 1990, of one of the Italian artist Caravaggio's most sought-after paintings, "The Taking of Christ".
This autumn, author for all ages Philip Pullman published Grimm Tales: For Young and Old, his own translations of 50 stories by the German folklorists, while the magical realist writer Sara Maitland brought out Gossip from the Forest, a captivating account of the interconnection between British woodlands and European fairytales.
And she does so with a storyteller's brevity and dry wit in this captivating account of world-rounding expeditions.
Blass gives a captivating account of his travels around and across the North Sea, journeying by bus, boat, bicycle and train to the eclectic maritime borderlands of Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands and beyond.
The author of five novels and two volumes of short stories, Drewe has produced a captivating account of his upbringing in the sun-sedated suburbs of 1950's Perth.
And that bears no resemblance to this captivating account of Ms. Ehrenreich's attempt to survive on the kind of low-paying jobs that politicians think will provide needy women with an alternative to welfare.
