Dragonwings touches on the struggles and dreams of Chinese immigrants navigating opportunity and prejudice in San Francisco

and the Queen of Hearts—have become world-famous

Rural Trinidad: a brick house on stilts surrounded by bush

She sits on the steps of the house with her head on her hands

Gilbert and Sullivan: A Biography Artwork Dragonwings touches on the strugglesThe operas of William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan are an institution. Hesketh Pearsons biography is of the two men who together formed a famous partnership and he is interested in them as individual, quite different personalities one of the explanations behind their equally famous quarrel. Pearson describes their lives rather than criticise their works. As the operas such as The Mikado and The Pirates of Penzance live on the stage, here their authors