Alcina Press was established in 2005, the bicentenary of Mozart’s death, to publish A.M.Bauld’s Mozart’s Sister, a novel which explores the few known facts to create vivid portrait of an overlooked and misunderstood sister of a genius. This book was written following an article the author wrote for the Independent newspaper about Nannerl Mozart.

THE LODGERS

Just published - and now available on Amazon as an eBook and paperback

Alison Bauld’s second novel The Lodgers is very different from Mozart’s Sister. Now she has turned her hand to writing a black comedy set in suburban London around the year 2000. It is a fairytale with a sting in its tail, a satire of a penny-pinching family in London. They are just making do with the help of paying student lodgers and as harassed, self-centred parents with three hapless children (one trapped in permanent babyhood) plus various lodgers they inhabit a world where nothing is quite as it seems. With two murders… a bizarre French holiday… and a plethora of peculiar lodgers, what happens to this odd but strangely endearing family teases expectation and takes you by surprise.

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Bauld continues to compose as well as write - her third already completed novel Confessions of a Reluctant Hypocrite will be published early next year. Her music continues to be performed widely and she is currently completing a song-cycle for female voice and piano.

Full details of her biography and all her work can be found at www.alisonbauld.com.