michael holroyd

'As deft and devastating as a piece of non-fiction writing in miniature as you’re ever likely to read ... A collection to be savoured, its urbanity, w

Michael Holroyd, perhaps the most distinguished of contemporary biographers, has in recent years turned his attention to the stories hidden within his

A love story, a detective story, a book of secrets, a beautifully written journey into a forest of family trees.

"A wonderful offbeat memoir.... Holroyd has written perhaps his best book yet."-Ben Macintyre, New York Times Book Review

Michael Holroyd confronts an army of automobiles in this charming book. Weaving together memoir and historical anecdote, he traces his relationship wi

"We regard Mr. Holroyd with awe, as a prodigy among biographers."-The New York Times Book Review

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 hi

Lytton Strachey, genius, wit, iconoclast, biographer, pacifist, and homosexual campaigner, was at the nexus of the literary and artistic life of Bloom

Taking the reader on a journey of discovery from Ravello to Paris, from Kirkstall Grange in Yorkshire to Vita Sackville-West's home at Knole, A Book o

A love story, a detective story, a book of secrets, a beautifully written journey into a forest of family trees.

* A brilliant selection of letters, essays and reviews written over the last quarter of a century by our pre-eminent biographer.

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 fi

Het is een gouden combinatie: gedichten en verhalen van Michael Morpurgo, de nestor van het Engelse kinderboek, en tekeningen van Yuval Zommer, de ill

Rupert Murdoch, oprichter van ’s werelds grootste en invloedrijkste mediaconglomeraat News Corp, gaat na zeventig jaar met pensioen. Hij heeft onmiske

AN OBSERVER BEST NEW NOVELIST 2023Luminous and devastating, a portrait of modern masculinity as shaped by class, by trauma, and by silence, but also b

As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, falling in and out of love, losing the things that are mo

‘Unsparing and tender’ Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn ‘A brilliant novel from our most brilliant of writers’ Colum McCann, author of Apeir

Dit boek helpt je op weg als je nog aan het begin van je leven staat. Speciaal voor jongeren, van scholieren tot young professionals. Het bevat waarde

De Chinese president Xi Jinping siert regelmatig onze televisieschermen en nieuwskoppen, maar zelfs na tien jaar aan de macht blijft hij in mysteriën

DIE UNIVERSITÄTEN IM DRITTEN REICH - DIE ERSTE GESAMTDARSTELLUNG Lange Zeit haben sich die deutschen Universitäten vor allem als Opfer der natio