The second book of "Pieces de Clavecin" in 1724 and the "Nouvelles Suites de Pieces de Clavecin" four years later represent a composer of solo music at his most inventive.
It is the eighth piece in the composer's first book of Préludes, written between late 1909 and early 1910.
Many of his compositions appeared in contemporary collections, including Thomas Morley's First Book of Consort Lessons (1599) and the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, which contains 19 of his keyboard pieces.
I had just finished a multi-month binge through most of Margaret Atwood's novels, so I chose to focus my first book piece on that great author.
After the failure of her first book submission, about a piece of dust, she learned to test the stories on her own children first.
When Wolfe's first book, a collection of his pieces for Esquire and New York, was published three months later, reviews were mixed.
On the dust jacket of his first book, "Bullies," a collection of stories and humor pieces, he described this as the miracle of writing by intuition.
Appropriately enough, Ford's first book, the hard-boiled A Piece of My Heart, was runner-up for the 1976 Hemingway award.
Schwab's strength is her characterisation, and she presents an engaging cast: the likable Kell, a magician who can slip between the different Londons; his brother Rhy, whom Kell saved in the first book by bequeathing him a piece of his own soul; feisty Delilah Bard, pickpocket turned pirate, and Alucard Emery, sinister magician and captain of the Night Spire.
