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’.
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The Smell of My Own Fear
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The Missing Postman
Racehoss: Big Emma's Boy
Craig & Fred : A Marine, A Stray Dog, and How They Rescued Each Other
Strangers on a Bridge : he Case of Colonel Abel and Francis Gary Powers
The Jersey Brothers: A Missing Naval Officer in the Pacific and His Family's Quest to Bring Him Home
My Adventures as a Spy: Autobiography : Enriched edition.
The Incredible Life Story of Frederick Douglass (3 Autobiographies in One Edition) : Enriched edition. The Life and Legacy of the Most Important African American Leader of the 19th Century
THE HISTORY OF MARY PRINCE, A WEST INDIAN SLAVE : Stirring Autobiography that Influenced the Anti-Slavery Cause of British Colonies
Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman (Autobiography) : Enriched edition.
