Bringing an informed perspective to this new account of Diana's life, Holden writes of her selfless pursuit of often unpopular causes, her qualities as a mother, her beauty and charisma, and the powerful influence she had begun to exert on political and religious leaders around the world.

Diana: A life and a legacy

Biographies & Memoirs

ANTHONY HOLDEN

Leaders & Notable People

Ebury Press

The life of Tchaikovsky has been shrouded in mystery and myth for more than a century. Thanks to the subterfuge of his family and subsequently the Soviet authorities, the world has been given a rosy portrait of a composer whose life was in truth as poignantly tragic as so much of his music. Now, after three years of research in archives in post-Soviet Russia, Europe and the United States, this biography offers a portrait of an ill-starred genius, whose life and career were as colourful and passionate as his music. In 1893, a week after conducting the first performance of the "Pathetique" symphony, Tchaikovsky was dead at the age of 53. Why would he have drunk a glass of unboiled water (as his family told posterity), knowing that there was a cholera epidemic in St Petersburg? And why does the cholera story not ring true? Could it have been a cover-up for suicide, or even murder? This is the denouement of Anthony Holden's biography. Holden sees the composer's death as the logical climax to his tortured life as a promiscuous homosexual. It is a grim irony, he argues, that the same torments which bequeathed us so much great music also brought Tchaikovsky's life to a premature close.

Tchaikovsky

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Penguin Books Canad

The Viking Opera Guide on CD-Rom

Amanda Holden

Stephen Walsh

NICHOLAS KENYON

Reference

Penguin Electronic

Who was William Shakespeare? How did the 'rude groom' from Stratford grow up to be the greatest poet the world has known? Not for a generation, since the late Anthony Burgess's SHAKESPEARE (1970), has there been anything approaching a popular, mainstream biography of the greatest and most celebrated writer. Yet Shakespeare's life was as colourful, varied and dramatic as his works: the Warwickshire country boy who 'disappeared' for seven years before fetching up in London as an apprentice actor...whose fellow players could scarcely keep up with the plays he turned out for them...who rapidly became a favourite at the court of Elizabeth I...and returned to Stratford a prosperous 'gentleman', proud to realise his father's dream of a family coat of arms, before his death at 52. Anthony Holden brilliantly interleaves the poets own words with the known facts to breathe new life into a story never before told in such absorbing detail. 'The perfect blend of erudition and accessibility' - the Daily Telegraph's verdict on Holden's life of Tchaikovsky - applies equally to his revealing, very human portrait of Shakespeare.

William Shakespeare : His Life and Work

Arts & Literature

Abacus History

Big Deal One Year as a Professional Poker Player by ANTHONY HOLDEN. Published by ABACUS,2002, Binding: Paperback

Big Deal

ABACUS +

Corgi Books

Charles: A Biography

St. Albans Poisoner: Life and Crimes of Graham Young

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

HarperCollins Distribution Services

BANTAM PRESS

A biography on the occasion of the prince's fiftieth birthday. A portrait of the divorced prince, now a widower, facing a choice between his children, the love of his live and the throne, or by trying to have all three. threatening the future of the monarchy. Offers an insight into the Prince's perspective on the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.

Charles: A biography

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