Books by Michael Holroyd

A confessional autobiographical novel from one of Britain's best loved authors.

This 1997 revised and updated biography of the celebrated artist, using the mass of new material which has come to light since Holroyd's two-volume first edition in the mid 1970s, reveals the complete story of John and his circle, from one of our great biographers.

Drawing on new material, both published and unpublished, this is a revised edition of a biography of Lytton Strachey which was first published in 1967. It is the story of a complex man and his world which it was felt could not be told while many of his friends and lovers were still alive.

Weaving together memoir and historical anecdote, he traces his relationship with cars through a lifetime of biography. Learning to drive was no easy matter for Michael: the lessons required military precision when practising how to get in and out of his car correctly.

On a hill above the Italian village of Ravello stands the Villa Cimbrone - a place of fantasy and make-believe. This title presents hidden lives, uncelebrated achievements and family mysteries.

Henry Irving - a merchant's clerk who became the saviour of British theatre - and Ellen Terry, who made her first theatre appearance as soon as she could walk, were the king and queen of the Victorian stage.

* A brilliant selection of letters, essays and reviews written over the last quarter of a century by our pre-eminent biographer.