{"product_id":"book-of-secrets-paperback","title":"Book of Secrets - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Holroyd\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA \u003ci\u003eTime \u003c\/i\u003eTop Ten Nonfiction Book of 2011\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSeattle Times \u003c\/i\u003eBest Book of 2011 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn 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 \u003ci\u003eA Book of Secrets\u003c\/i\u003e are destined never to meet, yet the Villa Cimbrone and one man unite them all. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis elegiac work is about the quest of unearthing and recounting the stories of women always on the periphery of the respectable world--from Alice Keppel, the mistress of both the second Lord Grimthorpe and the Prince of Wales; to Eve Fairfax, a muse of Auguste Rodin; to the novelist Violet Trefusis, the lover of Vita Sackville-West. \u003cbr\u003eAlso on the margins is the elusive biographer, who on occasion turns an appraising eye upon himself as part of his investigations in the maze of biography.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Holroyd is the author of acclaimed biographies of George Bernard Shaw, the painter Augustus John, Lytton Strachey, and Ellen Terry and Henry Irving, as well as two memoirs, \u003ci\u003eBasil Street Blues \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMosaic\u003c\/i\u003e. Knighted for his services to literature, he is the president emeritus of the Royal Society of Literature and the only nonfiction writer to have been awarded the David Cohen British Prize for Literature. His previous book, \u003ci\u003eA Strange Eventful History\u003c\/i\u003e, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography in 2009. He lives in London with his wife, the novelist Margaret Drabble.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.77 x 8.24 x 5.56 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 07, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42739168641087,"sku":"9781250007667","price":26.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/0b24c39e8b6eadb0319903a1305d2484.webp?v=1765155746","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/book-of-secrets-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}