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ISBN: 9780099548942 - A Book of Secrets A Book of Secrets
Michael Holroyd

ISBN10: 0099548941  ISBN13: 9780099548942
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Nov 2011
Deals with a company of unknown women: Alice Keppel who was the mistress of both the second Lord Grimthorpe and the Prince of Wales; Eve Fairfax who was Lord Grimthorpe's abandoned fiancee and sometime muse of Auguste Rodin; and, the novelist... More

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ISBN: 9781845951832 - Lytton Strachey Lytton Strachey
Michael Holroyd

ISBN10: 1845951832  ISBN13: 9781845951832
Publisher: Vintage Pimlico
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 15 Dec 2011
Lytton Strachey, genius, wit, iconoclast, biographer, pacifist, and homosexual campaigner, was at the nexus of the literary and artistic life of Bloomsbury. He revolutionised the writing of biography and smuggled deviant sexual behaviour into our... More

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ISBN: 9781845951849 - Augustus John Augustus John
Michael Holroyd

ISBN10: 1845951840  ISBN13: 9781845951849
Publisher: Vintage Pimlico
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 15 Dec 2011
Born in Tenby in 1878, Augustus John studied at the Slade with his sister Gwen, and in Paris. He lived a passionate and unruly life and died in 1961. This title includes letters from Joyce, Dylan Thomas, Shaw and Oskar Kokoschka, as well as many... More

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ISBN: 9781845951856 - Bernard Shaw Bernard Shaw
Michael Holroyd

ISBN10: 1845951859  ISBN13: 9781845951856
Publisher: Vintage Pimlico
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 15 Dec 2011
A biography of Bernard Shaw. Suitable for the general readers and the students, it emphasizes the light and shade of his life. It presents a portrait of the man and his age. Holroyd has done a masterly job of cutting down his huge biography to a... More

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ISBN: 9780701185343 - A Book of Secrets A Book of Secrets
Michael Holroyd

ISBN10: 0701185341  ISBN13: 9780701185343
Publisher: Vintage Chatto & Windus
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 04 Nov 2010
On a hill above the Italian village of Ravello stands the Villa Cimbrone - a place of fantasy and make-believe. This title presents hidden lives, uncelebrated achievements and family mysteries. On a hill above the Italian village of Ravello stands... More

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ISBN: 9780099548959 - Basil Street Blues and Mosaic Basil Street Blues and Mosaic
Michael Holroyd

ISBN10: 009954895X  ISBN13: 9780099548959
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 04 Nov 2010
Includes two stories "Basil Street Blues" and "Mosaic". "Mosaic" shows the strange interconnectedness of our lives, and how other people's stories, however eccentric or extreme, echo our own dreams and experiences. Michael Holroyd is one of the... More

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ISBN: 9780099497189 - A Strange Eventful History A Strange Eventful History
Michael Holroyd

ISBN10: 0099497182  ISBN13: 9780099497189
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Sep 2009
Henry Irving - a merchant's clerk who became the savior of British theater - and Ellen Terry, who made her first theater appearance as soon as she could walk, were the king and queen of the Victorian stage. This book explores their public and... More

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ISBN: 9780701187439 - On Wheels On Wheels
Michael Holroyd

ISBN10: 0701187433  ISBN13: 9780701187439
Publisher: Vintage Chatto & Windus
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Nov 2012
For Michael Holroyd, learning to drive is no easy matter: his driving lessons acquire a military precision in learning how to get in and out of the car in the correct fashion. This title traces his relationship with cars and driving. More

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ISBN: 9780099333012 - Augustus John - The New Biography Augustus John - The New Biography
Michael Holroyd

ISBN10: 0099333015  ISBN13: 9780099333012
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New ed of 2 Revised ed
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Jun 1997
Drawing on the mass of new material which has come to light since the first edition was published in 1974, this revised biography presents a detailed account of the passionate and unruly life of the bohemian British painter, Augustus John... More

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ISBN: 9780099332916 - Lytton Strachey Lytton Strachey
Michael Holroyd

ISBN10: 0099332914  ISBN13: 9780099332916
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New ed of 2 Revised ed
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 31 Aug 1995
Drawing on new material, both published and unpublished, this is a revised edition of a biography of Lytton Strachey which was first published in 1967. It is the story of a complex man and his world which it was felt could not be told while many... More