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Ann Schlee, who has died aged 89, was one of those rare novelists who found success writing for both children and adults. The Vandal, a dystopian tale of alienation in Thatcherite Britain, won the 1980 Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, while Rhine Journey, the story of a Victorian spinster’s emotional awakening on a European excursion, was shortlisted for the 1981 Booker Prize and was nearly adapted by Tom Stoppard into a script.

She was admired by Tom Stoppard, Olivia Manning and Jane Gardam and possessed ‘a gift for enabling the reader to enter a past world’

Anna Shuttleworth, brilliant cello teacher who inspired many star players of the future – obituary Drama and excitement mattered more to her than perfection: ‘Play anything, don’t worry about the notes’ was her advice to a worried student Anna Shuttleworth and the pianist Bernard Roberts in 1969: they often gave recitals Anna Shuttleworth, who has died aged 93, was a cellist and cello teacher who worked with many of the leading musicians of the second half of the 20th century, ranging from her fellow cellists Jacqueline du Pré and Natalie Clein to conductors such as Colin Davis and J...

January 1, 2021 Classical Guitar It’s always a pleasure to visit John Williams. He’s a very natural person and the fact that he’s indisputably one of the finest guitarists who’s ever lived is, on these occasions, neither here nor there. Yes, that’s why I’m talking with him, making an interview for the magazine, but invariably we’re just chatting over coffee and then eventually lunch. Life goes on around us, it’s easygoing. There’s always something fresh, every time, and my visit to John coincided with a period in which he was preparing to work very seriously in a guitar duo....