Philip Reed crafts compelling narratives that delve into the darker aspects of human nature and the complexities of relationships. His style is marked by sharp insights and a skillful creation of suspense and unease. Reed focuses on the psychological depth of his characters and the moral quandaries they navigate. His work appeals to readers seeking thoughtful and provocative storytelling.
On an archaeological dig in 1930s India, Rebecca pursues love but violence and a lone man on the mountain disrupt her plans. The excavations reveal dramatic finds but there is more danger present than Rebecca and the team realise. She must fight her way up the wild Indian coast to discover the truth...
Volume Five: 1958-1965
Focusing on a pivotal period in Benjamin Britten's life, this volume of letters reveals the intense creative energy leading to his acclaimed pacifist work, War Requiem. The correspondence provides insight into his thoughts, artistic process, and the significant events that shaped his music during this transformative time.
Here, Philip Reed turns his attention to the warships of the Second World War. The book is a step-by-step manual for building a scratch waterline model of the Ca Class destroyer HMS Caesar, the sistership of Cavalier now on display in drydock at Chatham Historical Dockyard.
"Building a Miniature Navy Board Model is a must-have for either the amateur or professional ship model builder's library."-- Michael Wall, director of the American Marine Model Gallery Now available in paperback, Philip Reed's latest building guide tackles what many regard as the ultimate expression of the ship model maker's art, the Navy Board model. His step-by-step construction of a miniature 1/192 scale model of HMS Royal George of 1715 demonstrates all the conventions of Navy Board framing and planking. With the aid of nearly four hundred photographs, he takes the reader through every building stage. He covers methods of hull and deck framing, internal and external planking, and the construction of the complex stern. Reed also shows how to render the multitude of decorative carvings on the figurehead, stern, and broadside. A section showing, amongst others, his model of Siren, explains how the techniques used to frame Royal George can be adapted for ships of a later date, using single and double frames closer to full-size practice. This is the first book in many years to cover the well-known and sought-after early eighteenth-century Navy Board models. Here is an invaluable manual from which any model maker can benefit from the lifetime's experience of one of the world's leading exponents of the art of miniature shipbuilding.
Volume Four: 1952-1957
Focusing on the composition of three significant works, this volume of Britten's letters delves into the transformative world trip that profoundly influenced the composer’s style. It offers insights into his creative process and the evolution of his music during this pivotal period.
This unmatched volume on the art of static ship modeling is a step-by step guide to building the eighteenth-century 74-gun ship-of-the-line Majestic.
In February 1995 Donald Mitchell, the foremost authority on the life and works of Gustav Mahler and Benjamin Britten, celebrated his seventieth birthday. To mark this event, the present Festschrift has been compiled under the editorship of Philip Reed. Distinguished composers, scholars, colleagues and friends from around the world have written on aspects of the two composers closest to Mitchell's heart - Mahler and Britten - to produce a volume which not only reflects some of the latest thinking on this pair of remarkable figures in the music of our century, but which also pays full tribute to the impact of Mitchell's own work on these composers over the last fifty years. The volume includes the fullest bibliography of Mitchell's writings yet compiled.
A detailed synopsis guides the reader through the musical and dramatic action of the opera, Billy Budd.