Foreword by Monica Mason OBE

Featuring over 200 exquisite colour and black and white photographs from 53 ballets, Pas de deux: The Royal Ballet in Pictures captures striking pas de deux moments across The Royal Ballet's extraordinary repertory, and features some of the finest dancers in ballet today. From Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty to contemporary pieces by the leading choreographers of the day, this is a unique photographic record of one of the foremost ballet companies in the world in performance and rehearsal at the Royal Opera House.

Jay McInerney, whose wine column appears monthly in House & Garden in the USA, is the author of seven novels, the most recent of which, The Good Life, was published by Bloomsbury in 2006. He lives in New York City.