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’.
Poems That Make Grown Women Cry
Anthony Holden, Ben Holden
book
Big Deal : A Year as a Professional Poker Player
Anthony Holden
book
He Played For His Wife And Other Stories
Anthony Holden, Natalie Galustian
book
Poems That Make Grown Men Cry : 100 Men on the Words That Move Them
Anthony Holden, Ben Holden
book
Bigger Deal : A Year Inside the Poker Boom
Anthony Holden
book
The Missing Postman
Fachtna Ó Drisceoil
book
In the Shadow of Freedom : A Heroic Journey to Liberation, Manhood, and America
Tchicaya Missamou, Travis Sentell
book
Death Row Chaplain: Unbelievable True Stories from America's Most Notorious Prison
Earl Smith, Mark Schlabach
book
Strangers on a Bridge : he Case of Colonel Abel and Francis Gary Powers
James Donovan
audiobookbook
My Dear Ones : One Family and the Final Solution
audiobook
The Jersey Brothers: A Missing Naval Officer in the Pacific and His Family's Quest to Bring Him Home
Sally Mott Freeman
audiobookbook
Please Enjoy Your Happiness : A Memoir
Paul Brinkley-Rogers
audiobookbook
The Hot One: A Memoir of Friendship, Sex, and Murder
Carolyn Murnick
book
Quiet Hero: Secrets from My Father's Past
Rita Cosby
book
Racehoss: Big Emma's Boy
Albert Sample
book
Craig & Fred : A Marine, A Stray Dog, and How They Rescued Each Other
Craig Grossi
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