Anthony Holden Book order (chronological)

Anthony Holden, award-winning journalist and biographer, editor of Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, looks back whimsically and wittily on a richly varied, anecdote- and action-packed career.

Following the success of their anthology Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, father-and-son team Anthony and Ben Holden, working with Amnesty International, have asked the same revealing question of 100 remarkable women. What poem has moved you to tears? The poems chosen range from the eighth century to today, from Rumi and Shakespeare to Sylvia Plath, W. H. Auden to Carol Ann Duffy, Pablo Neruda and Derek Walcott to Imtiaz Dharker and Warsan Shire. Their themes range from love and loss, through mortality and mystery, war and peace, to the beauty and variety of nature. From Yoko Ono to Judi Dench, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Elena Ferrante, Carol Ann Duffy to Meera Syal, and Joan Baez to Olivia Colman, this unique collection delivers private insights into the minds of women whose writing, acting and thinking are admired around the world.

GROWN MEN AREN'T SUPPOSED TO CRY. But in this fascinating anthology, one hundred men - distinguished in literature and film, science and architecture, theatre and human rights - confess to being moved to tears by poems that haunt them. Representing twenty nationalities and ranging in age from their early 20s to their late 80s, the majority are public figures not prone to crying. Here they admit to breaking down when ambushed by great art, often in words as powerful as the poems themselves. Seventy-five percent of the selected poems were written in the twentieth century, with more than a dozen by women. Their themes range from love in its many guises, through mortality and loss, to the beauty and variety of nature. Three men have suffered the pain of losing a child; others are moved to tears by the exquisite way a poet captures, in Alexander Pope's famous phrase, 'what oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd'. From J.J Abrams to John le Carré, Salman Rushdie to Jonathan Franzen, Daniel Radcliffe to Nick Cave, Ian McEwan to Stephen Fry, Stanley Tucci to Colin Firth, and Seamus Heaney to Christopher Hitchens, this collection delivers private insight into the souls of men whose writing, acting, and thinking are admired around the world.

In 1988, best-selling biographer Anthony Holden spent one year living the life of a professional poker player. His mesmerizing account of that year went on to become a classic of the genre, an inspiration to innumerable poker players and poker memoirists who followed. <i>Big Deal</i> is his story of days and nights in Las Vegas, Malta, and Morocco, mingling with the greats, sharpening his game, perfecting his repartee, and learning a great deal about himself in the process. Poker, Holden would insist, is a paradigm of life at its most intense, a gladiatorial contest that brings out the best as well as the worst in people. The heroes and eccentrics of the poker world stalk the pages of this remarkable book, along with all the hairraising, nail-biting excitement of the game itself.

Im Internet, in schummrigen Hinterzimmern oder in der Glitzerwelt der Casinos - Poker liegt im Trend. Ein Jahr lang versucht sich Anthony Holden als Profi-Zocker. Mit Witz und Selbstironie erzählt er von der schillernden Welt des Pokers und ihren unverwechselbaren Helden. Alljährlich berichtet Anthony Holden für englische Zeitungen vom größten Pokerturnier der Welt, dem Big Deal in Las Vegas - bis er eines Tages beschließt, selbst in der Profiszene mitzumischen. Seine Reise führt ihn zu den mal glamourösen, mal zwielichtigen Spielstätten des internationalen Pokers, an deren Tischen in kurzer Zeit riesige Geldbeträge ihre Besitzer wechseln. Holden gewährt Einblicke in die Regeln und Rituale des Pokerspiels, erzählt von gerissenen Zockern und tragischen Helden, von betrügerischen Exzentrikern und großen Träumern. Nach seinem Jahr als Profi-Zocker hat er viel über die Psychologie des Zockens gelernt: Bluffen, blenden, Nerven behalten - am Pokertisch geht es ans Eingemachte.

Anthony Holden&#39;s magisterial biography of William Shakespeare, reissued to celebrate the four-hundredth anniversary of the Bard&#39;s death.

The works of William Shakespeare are timeless, having as much relevance today as they did in the 16th and 17th centuries. Drawing on Shakespeare's own life, and illustrated with stills from classic movies, this important book explores the timeless passions and pleasures of human life, so vividly and memorably dramatized in his classic plays. Each chapter examines a major theme of Shakespeare's work, such as love and hate, jealousy and revenge, and death and retribution.

Recente geschiedenis van het Britse koninklijk huis en de oorzaken en gebeurtenissen die tot de sterk afgenomen populariteit hebben geleid.