About

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de la Porte Publishing is an independent London-based publisher specialising in:

  • music
  • biography
  • language
  • historical non-fiction.

We draw upon on a team of publishing and subject experts with years of experience in the industry to ensure the highest quality.

We welcome submissions from both new and previously published authors.

Our services

Editing

We provide copyediting and proofreading services with our team of subject specialists to ensure all content is sense-checked, fact-checked, free from grammatical errors and flows beautifully.

Design

We have an ongoing working relationship with several experienced design companies who provide cover design and text design services carefully tailored to each individual project.

Indexing

Often overlooked but crucial for all non-fiction and reference books, we provide a team of subject-specific indexers to ensure that your reader can easily locate specific points of note.

Publication

Each project will have different target markets and aims. We will establish the best way forward (print run, print on demand, ebook and distribution options) and manage this for your book.

New publications

Wagner: The Complete Experience and its Meaning to Us

'Wagner: The Complete Experience' – 3 volumesWagner: The Complete Experience and Its Meaning to Us is a colourful three-volume set that introduces, deepens and enriches the Wagner Experience for both newcomer and seasoned Wagnerian. Volume 1 explores Wagner’s formative experiences, aspirations and mentality, and his first wife Minna’s immense but unrecognised impact on him and his music. Volumes 2 and 3 cover Wagner’s operas (including his rarely examined early operas), expounding in colourful style the stories, the sources and the lessons of Wagner’s great dramas.

Uniquely drawing on a lifetime’s experience in General Medical Practice, Paul Dawson-Bowling brings us great wisdom, humanity and psychological understanding to his study on the life and work of Wagner with especial reference to the thought of Carl Jung.

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Born by the Thames: Stephen Dodgson – A Centenary Celebration

Born by the Thames marks the centenary of British composer Stephen Dodgson (1924–2013), whose long, distinguished and multi-faceted career produced many highly distinctive works in a voice that could be both playful and deeply evocative.

An approachable, thoughtful book for the musician and curious layperson alike, it brings together interviews and specially commissioned articles on Dodgson’s musical output as well as a selection of the composer’s own warmly erudite writings and broadcasts. These sit alongside personal reflections and anecdotes from his friends and family, and a generous selection of photographs, providing a rounded picture of Stephen Dodgson, the musician and the man. With a wide variety of his work, from opera to chamber music, now available on recordings, this book is a consolidation of Stephen Dodgson’s importance as a fixture in British music, both in the post-war period and today.

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