A Book of Secrets by Michael Holroyd
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.
Scintillating..Holroyd's book is a sly, inconclusive and utterly bewitching dance through the elusive narrative echoes that make up the biographer's art -- Claire Allfree * Metro *
A Book of Secrets is truly a book of revelations, of sudden, emotional jolts...a testament to the significance of hidden stories and marginal lives -- Daisy Hay * Daily Telegraph *
A book of singular fascination - nothing less, in fact, than an attempt to mark out, and then gamely transgress, at least half-a-dozen boundaries that a previous generation of biographers would have hesitated to cross. -- DJ Taylor * Literary Review *
compelling readable and almost determinedly in conclusive -- Keith Bruce * Glasgow Herald *
As is always the case with Holroyd, the reader comes away equally inspired, equally curious, and lavishly entertained by a story-teller of the first rank. -- Lee Randall * Scotsman *
A Book of Secrets is truly a book of revelations, of sudden, emotional jolts...a testament to the significance of hidden stories and marginal lives -- Daisy Hay * Daily Telegraph *
A book of singular fascination - nothing less, in fact, than an attempt to mark out, and then gamely transgress, at least half-a-dozen boundaries that a previous generation of biographers would have hesitated to cross. -- DJ Taylor * Literary Review *
compelling readable and almost determinedly in conclusive -- Keith Bruce * Glasgow Herald *
As is always the case with Holroyd, the reader comes away equally inspired, equally curious, and lavishly entertained by a story-teller of the first rank. -- Lee Randall * Scotsman *
Besides the Lives of Augustus John, Bernard Shaw and Lytton Strachey (which was filmed as Carrington), Michael Holroyd has written two volumes of memoirs, Basil Street Blues and Mosaic. His most recent book, A Strange Eventful History, winner of the James Tait Black Prize, was a biography of two great theatrical dynasties which included Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, and her son Edward Gordon Craig. He has been president of the Royal Society of Literature and is the first non-fiction writer to have been awarded the British Literature Prize. He lives in London and Somerset with his wife, the novelist Margaret Drabble.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780701185343 |
| ISBN 10 | 0701185341 |
| Title | A Book of Secrets |
| Author | Michael Holroyd |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2010-11-04 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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