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 35 books on a ‘crazy’ range of subjects, this cocky 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 turns 70, the award-winning journalist and biographer – grandson of an England footballer, son of a seaside shopkeeper, friend of the famous from Princess Diana to Peter O'Toole, Mick Jagger to Salman Rushdie – 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’.
The Smell of My Own Fear
Blanca Firpo, Marie Sälmark
book
Young Offender : My Life from Armed Robber to Local Hero
Michael Maisey
audiobook
Through a Mother's Tears
Cathy Broomfield
audiobook
Racehoss: Big Emma's Boy
Albert Sample
book
Lost in Ghost Town
Carder Stout
audiobook
Biography of Oliver Cromwell
Estelle Ross
book
I Marched with Patton : A Firsthand Account of World War II Alongside One of the U.S. Army's Greatest Generals
Frank Sisson, Robert L. Wise
audiobook
The True Story of Uncle Tom's Life: Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson : The True Life Story Behind "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Josiah Henson
book
Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman (Autobiography)
Austin Steward
book
Leap of Faith : The New Autobiography
Frankie Dettori
audiobook
Craig & Fred : A Marine, A Stray Dog, and How They Rescued Each Other
Craig Grossi
audiobook
The Ultimate Safe Money Guide
Martin Weiss
audiobook