The Madman's Orchestra, 9781398532403
Hardcover
A bizarre backstage tour of music’s maddest stories and eccentric sounds.
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The Madman's Orchestra

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  • Hardcover

    256 pages

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    24 November 2025

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Summary

The Madman’s Orchestra: A Backstage Tour of Musical Oddities

From the bestselling author and former BBC QI Elf comes a fascinating and beautifully illustrated journey through the entire history of music. In The Madman’s Orchestra, join Edward Brooke-Hitching as he lifts the curtain on the strangest episodes from the entire history of music, taking us on a backstage tour of surprising and eccentric stories.

From the musical secrets of prehistoric monuments t…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781398532403
ISBN-10:1398532401
Author:Edward Brooke-Hitching
Publisher:Simon & Schuster Ltd
Imprint:Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:24 November 2025
Weight:0g
Dimensions:6248mm x 4801mm
About The Author

Edward Brooke-Hitching

Edward Brooke-Hitching is the author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling books The Phantom Atlas (2016), The Golden Atlas (2018), The Sky Atlas (2019), The Madman’s Library (2020) and The Devil’s Atlas (2021), all of which have been translated into numerous languages; he is also the author of Fox Tossing, Octopus Wrestling and Other Forgotten Sports (2015). He is a writer for the BBC series QI. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and an incurable cartophile, he lives surrounded by dusty heaps of old maps and books in Berkshire.

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