98pp, with black and white illustrations. Laminated, illustrated stiff card covers. 16mo. Some gentle wear to lightly shelf worn covers; internally neat, clean, tight and bright. Composers are a bewildering lot, and that's even before considering their music. A Sideways Guide to Composers gives and often irreverent potted history of the life and works for 100 of them, each caricatured in John Minnion's unique style which may be familiar to readers of Classic CD.