Violin – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Thu, 04 Sep 2025 11:25:09 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Violin – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 To be young, gifted and Black https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/to-be-young-gifted-and-black/ Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=48090 An impassioned defence of Black excellence in the arts.

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‘This exceptional book, written with a mother’s love for her seven creative children, sensitively offers profound and original insights and perspectives that enrich our culture. I feel so much wiser for reading it.‘ Bernardine Evaristo

When Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason’s eldest daughter, Isata, made her solo debut at the BBC Proms in 2023, she could not have been prouder. Watching years of hard work transform into a transcendent performance was profoundly moving, both as music-lover and parent.

All fractured when her younger daughter turned to her in tears a few days later, having read online abuse about her sister. Isata, it was declared, did not deserve to be there. How do you prepare your child for the fact that no matter their talent, technique or dedication, they will be told they do not belong?

Through conversations with her extraordinarily gifted family, Kanneh-Mason explores what it’s like to come of age in these turbulent times, when Black artistic self-expression is so often met with disparagement and abuse online – and offers a hopeful, powerful way through.

]]> Little Sheku and the animal orchestra https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/little-sheku-and-the-animal-orchestra/ Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=48068 Little Sheku LOVED music. He loved to hear the beautiful sounds that flowed from his cello as his bow danced across the strings. And he loved finding music in unexpected places…

Little Sheku can’t wait to play his cello in a concert with the animal orchestra. But when they discover a dragon has stolen the conductor, Little Sheku and the animals must embark on a music-filled adventure to the dragon’s cave. Will they rescue the conductor in time to finish the concert?

From globally renowned, award-winning cellist, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, comes this magical, musical picture book adventure that will inspire a love of music in readers of three and up.

Sheku’s lyrical writing weaves musicality into every sentence, drawing on his life-long love of the cello to tell his tale. Rekha Salin’s stunning illustrations send music springing and singing from every page.

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