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A confessional autobiographical novel from one of Britain's best loved authors.

An insightful collection of pieces about the art of narration from one of Britain's most acclaimed biographers ("Augustus John: The New Biography", "Lytton Strachey: The New Biography"), charting the art of biography from Boswell to Paul Burrell.

Part detective story, part family saga, and part oblique voyage of self-discovery, this book belongs on the shelf beside C. S. Lewis's autobiography Surprised by Joy. Not long before his parents died in the 1980s, Michael Holroyd asked them to write some account of their early lives. These two documents, which, where they do overlap, differ dramatically--they do not even agree on the date of Michael's birth--mark the starting point of this boo...

Ida Nettleship's letters regarding her marriage to the artist Augustus John in the early part of the twentieth century as well as her eventual acceptance of a second woman into the marriage are compiled and arranged by Augustus John biographer Michael Holroyd and John's granddaughter Rebecca John.

A beautiful cloth-bound boxed set with two volumes that celebrate a unique family history - that of his grandmother in the 1870s, and his young aunt during the 1920s.

A National Trust guidebook about Bernard Shaw at Shaw's Corner, Hertfordshire

Provides documentation, containing over 10, 000 researched source notes, as well as the cumulative index to the first three volumes of this work on George Bernard Shaw. This text also includes Holroyd's epilogue, "Volume 4, The Last Laugh 1950-1991".

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From the bestselling author of "A Book of Secrets, " a brisk, charming, illustrated account of a motoring life. Holroyd shares stories of the cars and drivers that inspired and affected him throughout his life.

Works on Paper is a selection by one of today's leading biographers from his lectures, essays, and reviews written over the last quarter of a century—mainly on the craft of biography and autobiography, but also covering what Michael Holroyd describes as his "enthusiasms and alibis".Opening with a startling attack on biography, which is answered by two essays on the ethics and values of non-fiction writing, the book goes on to examine the work ...

The Bloomsbury circle has long preoccupied writers, critics, and the general public alike. For many years its focal point was Charleston Farmhouse in Sussex, home to Vanessa and Clive Bell and Duncan Grant. "A Cezanne in the Hedge" brings together thirty firsthand reminiscences of the Charleston, vividly and amusingly evoking its creativity--and eccentricity. Childhood memories from Quentin Bell, Angelica Garnett, and Nigel Nicholson are inter...

The Bloomsbury circle has long preoccupied writers, critics, and the general public alike. For many years its focal point was Charleston Farmhouse in Sussex, home to Vanessa and Clive Bell and Duncan Grant. "A Cezanne in the Hedge" brings together thirty firsthand reminiscences of the Charleston, vividly and amusingly evoking its creativity--and eccentricity. Childhood memories from Quentin Bell, Angelica Garnett, and Nigel Nicholson are inter...

In a single-volume format, Michael Holroyd's masterpiece of a biography offers new verve and pace, Shaw's world is more dramatically revealed as Holroyd counterpoints the private and public Shaw with inimitable insight and scholarship.

It is impossible to suppose that this 'Life' will ever be superseded . . . the best literary biography to appear for many years."-John Rothenstein, New York Times "Written with vivacity and scrupulousness. . . . [Michael Holroyd] has a great novelist's sense of the obstinate mystery of the human person."-George Steiner, The New Yorker

After writing the definitive biographies of Lytton Strachey and George Bernard Shaw, Michael Holroyd turned his hand to a more personal subject: his own family. The result was Basil Street Blues, published in 1999. But rather than the story being over, it was in fact only beginning. As letters from readers started to pour in, the author discovered extraordinary narratives that his own memoir had only touched on. Mosaic is Holroyd's piecing to...

On a hill above the Italian village of Ravello sits the Villa Cimbrone, a place of fantasy and make-believe. The characters who move through Holroyd's new book are destined never to meet, yet the Villa Cimbrone and one man unite them all.

In On Wheels Michael Holroyd takes on the humble automobile. Weaving together memoir and anecdote with historical example he traces his relationship with cars and driving through a lifetime of biography. For Michael, 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. His biographical subject George Bernard Shaw was no less enthusiastic – he ...

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This 1997 revised and updated biography of the celebrated artist, using the mass of new material which has come to light since Holroyd's two-volume first edition in the mid 1970s, reveals the complete story of John and his circle, from one of our great biographers.

Trade paperbacks. Revised and rewritten editions of Holroyd's classic biographies, each including more detail and revelations.