Ivor Novello in His Own Works: A Critical Study of the Songs, Plays, Films and Musicals of a British Icon (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781350501478)

John Snelson has worked extensively in music across performance, publishing and teaching. Following his PhD on the West End musical (2003) his scholarly publications have included the monograph Andrew Lloyd Webber (2004) and Reviewing the Situation: The British Musical from Noël Coward to Lionel Bart (2023). He was Senior Internal Editor (covering popular, pop and light music) for the Revised New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001), to which he was also a contributor. He has also published extensively on opera, including How To Enjoy Opera (2016), and has worked for the Royal Opera House for twenty years.