Based on a True Story

Holden, Anthony

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Anthony Holden, award-winning journalist and biographer, editor of Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, looks back whimsically and wittily on a richly varied, anecdotal and action-packed career.

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Publish Date: 28/10/2021
ISBN: 9781471154683 Category: Tags: ,

Description

From poker to poetry, poisoners to princes, opera to the Oscars, Shakespeare to Olivier, Mozart to Murdoch, Anthony Holden seems to have rolled many writers’ lives into one. Author of 40 books on a wide range of subjects, this Lancashire lad-turned-bohemian citizen of the world has led an apparently charmed life from Merseyside to Buckingham Palace, the White House and beyond.

As he enters his 70s, the award-winning journalist and biographer – son of a seaside shopkeeper,  grandson of an England footballer, friend of the famous from Peter O’Toole to Princess Diana – spills the beans on showbiz names to literary sophisticates, rock stars to royals as he looks back whimsically and wittily on a richly varied, anecdote- and action-packed career – concluding, in the words of Robert Louis Stevenson, that ‘Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well’.

Additional information

Weight 570 g
Dimensions 234 × 153 × 33 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

276

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

070.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K