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A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers by Michael Holroyd
$19.95 AUD
Category: Literary
"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 Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers by Michael Holroyd
$46.95 AUD
Category: Literary
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 Dog's Life by Michael Holroyd
$34.99 AUD
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
Facts and Fiction - A Book of Storytelling by Michael Holroyd
$38.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
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
Good Bohemian by Michael Holroyd
$30.00 AUD
Category: Literary
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
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