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A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers by Michael Holroyd
$19.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"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
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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
Basil Street Blues by Holroyd, Michael
$22.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The candid family biography of our pre-eminent biographer.Michael Holroyd - the most famous biographer in Britain - turns his attention upon himself and his own family in Basil Street Blues (the title comes from the Basil Street Hotel where the author was conceived in the 1930s.) Born into a family rich ...Show more
Lytton Strachey by Himself by Michael Holroyd
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
While researching his landmark biography of Lytton Strachey, Michael Holroyd had access to the fascinating Strachey archives. From this source he collected all Strachey's diaries and memoirs, which in this volume form an intermittent but not disconnected autobiography. From childhood diaries to the int ...Show more
Mosaic : Portraits in fragments by Michael Holroyd
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A brilliant and funny family memoir which shows the strange interconnectedness of our family lives, and how other people's stories, however eccentric or extreme, echo our own dreams and experiences. Book Information: 'This is a book about surprises - at any rate, it has surprised me.' In 1999 ...Show more
The Good Bohemian by Michael Holroyd; Rebecca John
$19.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
'It is right that, after more than one hundred years, she should have her say' John Carey, Sunday TimesTwelve days before her twenty-fourth birthday, on the foggy morning of Saturday 12 January 1901, Ida Nettleship married Augustus John in a private ceremony at St Pancras Registry Office. The union went ...Show more
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