Bold as Brass
by Isabel Rogers
This title was previously available on NetGalley and is now archived.
Send NetGalley books directly to your Kindle or Kindle app
1
To read on a Kindle or Kindle app, please add kindle@netgalley.com as an approved email address to receive files in your Amazon account. Click here for step-by-step instructions.
2
Also find your Kindle email address within your Amazon account, and enter it here.
Pub Date 11 Jul 2019 | Archive Date 25 Jul 2019
Talking about this book? Use #BoldAsBrass #NetGalley. More hashtag tips!
Description
Community music projects always spread harmony… don’t they?
When players in Stockwell Park Orchestra fear they may be getting out of touch with their local community, they invite children from two nearby schools to join them for a season. Supercilious, rich Oakdean College pupils have never mixed with the rough Sunbridge Academy kids, and when things go missing and rumours spread, the situation threatens to turn ugly. And that’s before any parents – or a godfather who happens to be a famous composer – get involved. DCI Noel Osmar has to tread carefully. After all, he’s off duty.
Can music heal social rifts? Who has been stealing and why? And will orchestra administrator Pearl have to go to Waitrose for some Duchy Original biscuits to keep the peace?
Praise for The Stockwell Park Orchestra Series:
“…a witty and irreverent musical romp, full of characters I’d love to go for a pint with. I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know the Stockwell Park Orchestra and can't wait for the next book in the series.” Claire King, author of The Night Rainbow
"Sharp, witty and richly entertaining." Lev Parikian, author of Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear?
“With its retro humour bordering on farce, this novel offers an escape into the turbulent (and bonkers) world of the orchestra.” Isabel Costello, author of Paris Mon Amour
Advance Praise
“…a witty and irreverent musical romp, full of characters I’d love to go for a pint with. I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know the Stockwell Park Orchestra and can't wait for the next book in the series.” Claire King, author of The Night Rainbow
"Sharp, witty and richly entertaining." Lev Parikian, author of Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear?
“With its retro humour bordering on farce, this novel offers an escape into the turbulent (and bonkers) world of the orchestra.” Isabel Costello, author of Paris Mon Amour
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781788421409 |
| PRICE | US$3.99 (USD) |
Links
Featured Reviews
Heather B, Reviewer
Bold as Brass is a good book with a interesting storyline. The characters are well developed. A quick read..
Ronnie T, Reviewer
I completely loved this second book in the Stockwell Park Orchestra series! Great warmth and musicians’ humor throughout, with lovely characters. I was thoroughly, musically entertained - just as the first book made me feel. Nice job!
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC.
#BoldAsBrass #NetGalley
Abby S, Reviewer
Second in the series this is a wonderful entertaining series about the world of a band. the characters come alive already looking forward to next book in the series.#netgalley. #farrago
Lisa S, Librarian
A light hearted, musical mystery was the perfect way to start the summer holidays. I'd not read the first in this series but it didn't impact my enjoyment of this one. Particularly enjoyable were the sections describing the orchestra at work and I the pub scenes also seemed to ring very true to life :D
Will definitely go back and read the first one now.
Susan C, Reviewer
A great series of light reading books covering the trials of an amateur orchestra, this time doing outreach to 2 very different schools. Perfect, light summer reading.
Elissa S, Reviewer
From Little Acorns
I was once adept at corporate-speak and could cram all the buzz words into a report with the best of them, but a character in this book has me beat to glory. Fortunately for all of us, other characters translate for us nicely and the humor rolls on. Written for a British audience, the language and spelling and, occasionally, the vocabulary, required me to take advantage of Wikipedia on the fly, one of the benefits of e-reading. Trust me, it is well worth that time because this is even funnier when you understand some of the more obscure-to-non-Britons descriptions. This, the second of author Isabel Rogers' stories about a small local orchestra with more than its share of drama and funny business (bad pun fully intended), stands alone quite nicely but you will do yourself a favor if you look up book one. (And I am listening to Mussorgsky--one of the pieces performed by the orchestra--as I write.)
Readers who liked this book also liked:
Patricia McBride
General Fiction (Adult), Romance, Women's Fiction
