Richard Crouse (photo: James Healslip)

ON A MUSICAL NOTE

Richard Crouse (above), Canada’s most stylish pop-culture critic, turns his specs to the cooler Elvis in Elvis Is King: Costello’s My Aim Is True (ECW Press), tracing the British rocker’s life from office worker to punk icon.

Internationally celebrated author of The Cello Suites, Eric Siblin, returns with Studio Grace: The Making of a Record (House of Anansi Press), recounting his life-long pursuit to record his own album.

In Fallen: A Trauma, A Marriage, and the Transformative Power of Music (Greystone Books), Kara Stanley explores the healing role of music after her professional musician husband suffers a major brain and spinal cord injury.