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A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers by Michael Holroyd
Category: Biography
On a hill above the Italian village of Ravello stands the Villa Cimbrone - a place of fantasy and make-believe. The characters that move through Michael Holroyd's new book are destined never to meet - they lived through different eras and reside in different countries. Yet the Villa Cimbrone unites them ...Show more
A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers by Michael Holroyd
Category: Biography
"A Book of Secrets" is a masterfully atmospheric treasure-trove of hidden lives, uncelebrated achievements and family mysteries. Acclaimed biographer Michael Holroyd peers into dusty corners to bring a company of unknown women into the light: Alice Keppel was the mistress of both the second Lord Grimtho ...Show more
A Dog's Life by Michael Holroyd
Category: Fiction
Eustace is undisputed patriarch of the Farquhar family. That is, he would be if everyone stopped mumbling, let him get on with his shaving and find his way downstairs. It's not Henry's fault that he snores and that his marriage has collapsed. Or that he failed to get into the cricket team. But he has ma ...Show more
AUGUSTUS JOHN THE NEW BIOGRAPHY by HOLROYD MICHAEL
Category: Biography
This revised and updated biography of the British painter, drawing on the mass of new material which has come to light since Holroyd's first edition in 1974, reveals the complete story of John and his circle.
Bernard Shaw by Michael Holroyd
Category: Biography
"Holroyd has done a masterly job of cutting down his huge biography to a lively and manageable one-volume life - the definitive Shaw for the general reader and the student. It has verve and pace, the light and shade of his life are emphasized, digressions cut, and Shaw comes over just as much larger tha ...Show more
Bernard Shaw: One Volume by Michael Holroyd
Category: Biography
Holroyd has done a masterly job of cutting down his huge biography to a lively and manageable one-volume life - the definitive Shaw for the general reader and the student. It has verve and pace, the light and shade of his life are emphasized, digressions cut, and Shaw comes over just as much larger than ...Show more
Facts and Fiction - A Book of Storytelling by Michael Holroyd
Category: Languages and Reference
A captivating collection of pieces about the art of narration by Britain's finest biographer, Michael HolroydIn this collection of pieces, Michael Holroyd reflects on the eccentricities of the art of writing about others. With characteristic playfulness and guilefulness, he considers the ways in which l ...Show more
Facts and Fiction - A Book of Storytelling by Michael Holroyd
Category: Biography Memoir
'As deft and devastating as a piece of non-fiction writing in miniature as you're ever likely to read ... A collection to be savoured, its urbanity, wisdom and humorous probing best digested at leisure' Daily TelegraphIn Facts and Fiction, Michael Holroyd reflects on the eccentricities of the art of wri ...Show more
Good Bohemian by Michael Holroyd
Category: Biography
Captivatingly fresh and intimate letters from Augustus John's first wife, Ida, reveal the untold story of married life with one of the great artists of the last century. Twelve days before her twenty-fourth birthday, on the foggy morning of Saturday 12 January 1901, Ida Nettleship married Augustus John ...Show more
LYTTON STRACHEY THE NEW BIOGRAPHY by HOLROYD MICHAEL
Category: Biography
Lytton Strachey, genius, wit, iconoclast, biographer, pacifist, and homosexual campaigner, was at the nexus of the literary and artistic life of Bloomsbury. In the 1960s, he was seen as a progenitor of the hippy cult. Now he appears as a far more subversive and challenging figure. He revolutionised the ...Show more