Tom Service’s brilliant new book, A History of the World in 50 Pieces, published today with @eburybooks @penguinukbooks @bbcradio3 🎵🎼🎶

Huge congratulations 🎉 @t.o.m.s.e.r.v.i.c.e

Music transports us and defines us.

As a form of expression, it has been passed down through oral tradition, musical notation and recordings in a chain of connection that spans the globe, across the millennia. A History of the World in 50 Pieces follows that chain, collating 50 pieces of classical music that reflect our changing politics, social structures and technological development, and how composers, musicians and listeners have shaped those currents of history.

From Bach to Beethoven, Songlines to Saariaho, Hildegard of Bingen to the Happy Birthday song, Tom Service offers a fresh take on pieces that many of us think we know, and many more we might not. With each short, sharp analysis, he expands the typical canon and tests the boundaries of what we understand to be ‘classical music’ – or even music at all, such as the sounds of the earth’s rotation, and the songs of humpback whales.

An official BBC Radio 3 publication, A History of the World in 50 Pieces is a book for anyone curious about the power of music and how it shapes us and connects us.

✨ The mind can be loud. This book teaches it to whisper.

Already in its 3rd printing! “Healing Your Anxieties in 6 Sessions” by Dr. Philippe Presles offers a clear, evidence-based approach to overcoming anxiety—from panic attacks and phobias to obsessive thoughts and social fears.

Readers are unanimous: it’s a true game-changer—Brilliant, practical, and deeply human.

@robert_laffont @versilio.editions @fabricemidal

A huge congratulations to @alex_bell86 — The White Octopus Hotel is officially published in both the UK and US @delreyuk @delreybooks! 🐙🏨🕰️🔮🩵

High in the snowy Swiss Alps, art appraiser Eve Shaw and young composer Max Everly wander the winding halls of the grand belle epoque White Octopus Hotel, lost in time.

Each of them has been through the trenches—Eve in a family accident and Max on the battlefields of the Great War—but for an impossible moment, love and healing are just a room away . . . if only they have the courage to step through the door.

Grab your copy now! #thewhiteoctopushotel #alexandrabell #timetravel

So thrilled for Philippe on the release of “Death is My Life”!

Philippe Boxho—Belgium’s most renowned forensic pathologist— shares real-life cases.

With gripping storytelling, he takes us beyond the morgue and into the beating heart of humanity: where death reveals life in all its beauty, pain, and fragility.

Raw. Thought-provoking. Unforgettable.
📚🎬🔥

@philippeboxho @kennesles3as @livredepoche @audible_fr

A very happy publication day to @gnohant. “A Man in the Storm” hits bookstores today!
This powerful, mesmerizing novel sheds light on the women of the Great War — the silent witnesses and unexpected heroines of a world turned upside down.

The early reviews are unanimous! It’s a must read. A huge congratulations Gaelle Nohant!

#rl2025
@juliettejoste @ed_iconoclaste @marielaurewalckenaer @audiolib