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West of Sunset

Dirk Bogarde

First published in 1984, this is Dirk Bogarde’s third novel.Set in the shadow of Hollywood opulence - the gaudy wastes of Los Angeles - West of Sunset is a sharp and potent satire of movie-making America. However, the excessive glitter is embedded in a deeper plot about a successful man’s fall from grace. Hugo Arlington, a celebrated young writer, had the power to destroy peopl...

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Voices in the Garden

Dirk Bogarde

First published 1981, this is Dirk Bogarde’s second novel.The fabulous but wavering old Lady 'Cuckoo†? Peverill, lives with her husband, Napoleon-mad military historian, Archie. Dissatisfied and overcome by sheer boredom, she ventures down to the lake at the edge of their estate, pockets filled with stones, she begins to walk into the water. Before she is too deeply submerged, ...

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Jericho

Dirk Bogarde

First published in 1991, this is Dirk Bogarde’s fourth novel.With his divorce proceedings looming, writer William Caldicott is in desperate need of some respite. As fate would have it, he receives a cryptic letter of farewell from his estranged brother James, along with the keys to James’ house France. Sensing the potentially reformative aspect of such a break, William sets out...

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Closing Ranks

Dirk Bogarde

First published in 1997, this is Dirk Bogarde’s sixth and final novel.The Grayles have lived at Hartleap since Canute. They know this and are proud of the fact. Now they stand around the deathbed of their longest-serving nanny who is about to slip away. Ada Stephens - known as Nanny Grayle and well into her nineties - will not go quietly. In the strange clarity that comes with ...

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For the Time Being

Dirk Bogarde

First published in 1998, For the Time Being brings together virtually all of Dirk Bogarde's published work outside of his novels and autobiographies, with a specially written introduction and new reflections on several of the pieces.In 1988, Dirk Bogarde returned from two idyllic decades in France to live in England, due to his partner's serious illness. Shortly afterwa...

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An Orderly Man

Dirk Bogarde

First published in 1983, An Orderly Man is volume three of Dirk Bogarde’s best-selling memoirsAfter completing work on Visconti’s Death in Venice, the celebrated actor seeks a refuge from 20 years of ’continual motion’. This dream of a peaceful retreat materialises itself in the form of a neglected farmhouse in the South of France. However, before he is rewarded with the calm h...

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A Gentle Occupation

Dirk Bogarde

Originally published in 1980, this is Dirk Bogarde’s first novel.In the uneasy aftermath of WWII, a group of ordinary British soldiers and their families find themselves stationed as peacekeepers at an outpost in the Java Sea. Whilst attempting to return the island to Dutch control, they are subject to violent attacks by the locals who want their freedom.As the Empire crumbles,...

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A Short Walk from Harrods

Dirk Bogarde

First published in 1993, this is volume six of Dirk Bogarde’s best-selling memoirs.Forced into returning to London because of his manager and his partner’s rapidly deteriorating health, Bogarde must re-adapt to life in the West London neighbourhoods that groomed him as an aspiring young actor. But with his fame fading and his descent into old age, the entire process becomes rat...

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A Period of Adjustment

Dirk Bogarde

First published in 1994, this is Dirk Bogarde’s fifth novel.Following on from his previous novel, Jericho, evoking the manifold themes and compelling rural French atmosphere of its predecessor, A Period of Adjustment tells the story of William Caldicott. His ruined marriage spurred him on to obey his estranged brother’s letter, which asked him take a house in the south of Franc...

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A Particular Friendship

Dirk Bogarde

’London guests staying hate it. Keeps them awake all night they complain. The bleating in the utter stillness. I heal with it, as you did.’First published in 1989, A Particular Friendship follows Dirk Bogarde’s first four memoirsThis epistolary collection finds Bogarde at his most honest and touching, engaging in conversation with a woman he has never met and whose only interes...

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Backcloth

Dirk Bogarde

First published in 1986, Backcloth is volume four of Dirk Bogarde’s best-selling memoirsFilling the gaps left between his previous memoirs, as well as highlighting new episodes, Backcloth explores the patterns of pleasure and pain that have made up Bogarde’s extraordinary life. Based on personal letters, notebooks and diaries and covering many aspects of a celebrated life, we s...

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18,18 €
Great Meadow

Dirk Bogarde

First published in 1992, Great Meadow is volume five of Bogarde’s best-selling memoirsEmploying both the language and lucidity of the young boy that he evokes, the actor turned author, Dirk Bogarde, presents us with a charming recollection of his childhood. From 1927 to 1934 he lived in a remote cottage in the Sussex Downs with his sister Elizabeth and their strict but loving n...

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Cleared for Take-Off

Dirk Bogarde

First published in 1997, Cleared for Take-Off is the final volume of Dirk Bogarde’s acclaimed series of best-selling memoirsDuring his many reconnaissance missions in Europe and the Far East, the young Bogarde experienced the terror of enemy attack and the horror of its aftermath, together with the intense camaraderie and bitter humour of the battlefield. He also felt, like cou...

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