Eustace is the undisputed patriarch of the Farquhar family--that is, he would be if everyone left him alone so he could get on with things, like shaving, and finding his way downstairs.It's not Henry's fault that he snores and that his marriage has collapsed. Or that he failed to get into the cricket team. But he has made up for it and is now a faster motorist than ever he was a bowler. He is a good father too, and one day, when he wakes up from day-dreaming, his son Kenneth will thank him. It is good that Anne sleeps with a whistle in her mouth--how else could she terrify the burglars? As for Mathilda, she wold love to like her mother, but prefers going for long walks with the dog. But what will happen to them all if the dog dies?The story is followed by a devastating postscript. Placing this eccentric family in isolation after two world wars and at the beginning of our aggressive financial culture, it turns comedy into tragedy. A Dog's Life marked a very personal addition to Michael Holroyd's remarkable career.

Product Description: Works on Paper is a selection by one of today’s leading biographers from his lectures, essays, and reviews written over the last quarter of a century—mainly on the craft of biography and autobiography, but also covering what Michael Holroyd describes as his “enthusiasms and alibis”...read more

Product Description: From the bestselling author of A Book of Secrets, a brisk, charming, illustrated account of a motoring lifeAs a child, Michael Holroyd spent his best hours in his family's cramped garage, which contained a wealth of magical, exciting objects...read more

Product Description: A Time Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2011A Seattle Times Best Book of 2011 On a hill above the Italian village of Ravello sits the Villa Cimbrone, a place of fantasy and make-believe. The characters who move through Michael Holroyd's A Book of Secrets are destined never to meet, yet the Villa Cimbrone and one man unite them all...read more

Product Description: A love story, a detective story, a book of secrets, a beautifully written journey into a forest of family trees. After writing the definitive biographies of Lytton Strachey and George Bernard Shaw, Michael Holroyd turned his hand to a more personal subject: his own family...read more

Traces the life of the leader of hte Bloomsbury group, and discusses his relationships with Dora Carrington and other intellectuals of the period

A one-volume abridgement of Holroyd's two-volume study of George Bernard Shaw chronicles the private life and work of a towering literary figure, from 1856 to 1950

Product Description: When Michael Holroyd published BASIL STREET BLUES, in which one of our finest biographers turned his attentions to his own family, it was the beginning of a story rather than the end. For as the letters from readers started to arrive, the author discovered an extraordinary narrative that his own memoir had only touched upon...read more

The nearest we have to Giles Lytton Strachey's autobiography. Strachey (1880-1932) was an English biographer and critic educated at Cambridge and one of the leading members of the Bloomsbury group.

Product Description: This updated biography of the British painter reveals the complete story of Augustus John and his circle. New material which includes letters from Joyce, Dylan Thomas, Shaw, Oskar Kokoschka, the Sitwells, and Sean O'Casey reveals John to be a pivotal cultural figure in the first quarter of this century...read more

A celebrated biographer focuses on his own life, peeling back the layers on his 'ordinary' British family to discover evidence of fatal fires, suicides, bankruptcies, divorces, unrequited love, nobility, and much more. Reprint.

Product Description: Michael Holroyd, one of the finest biographers of the twentieth century, finds an extraordinary story to tell of his own family. His Swedish mother was born three months prematurely after a terrible fire that killed her two-year-old brother...read more

Product Description: Drawing on the mass of new material which has come to light since the first edition was published in 1974, this revised biography presents a detailed account of the passionate and unruly life of the bohemian British painter, Augustus John, and his circle.

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A look at Shaw's literary legacy describes what became of Shaw's money, his houses, his plays, and his plans, revealing the devious ways in which an artist's aspirations and royalties can be waylaid by succeeding generations, in the final volume of a four-volume biography.

Product Description: God's Fifth Column is the last book of William Gerhardie. Well known in the 1920s and 1930s chiefly as a novelist (whose books were admired by Arnold Bennett, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh and others), Gerhardie fell mysteriously silent at the beginning of the Second World War and did not publish another book during the remaining thirty-seven years of his life...read more

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