Ian Bostridge is a young British tenor making his mark on the opera and concert stage. He sings full-time, but is also writing a book, provisionally entitled "Being a Singer", to be published by Methuen in 1998.

arresting and thought-provoking book./ IWitchcraft and its TransformationsI is quite a Itour de forceI, full of fascinating insights,... it represents the best account currently available of Defoe's thought on such subjects; it gives a perceptive account of the imagery of witchcraft in popular prints in the eighteenth century./ Michael Hunter, Birkbeck College, London, Eighteenth Century Life, Vol 22, no. 2, May 1998.

Ian Bostridge is a young British tenor making his mark on the opera and concert stage. He sings full-time, but is also writing a book, provisionally entitled "Being a Singer", to be published by Methuen in 1998.

arresting and thought-provoking book./ IWitchcraft and its TransformationsI is quite a Itour de forceI, full of fascinating insights,... it represents the best account currently available of Defoe's thought on such subjects; it gives a perceptive account of the imagery of witchcraft in popular prints in the eighteenth century./ Michael Hunter, Birkbeck College, London, Eighteenth Century Life, Vol 22, no. 2, May 1998.