Dirk Bogarde Boeken

Alice Arlington, de weduwe van de schrijver Hugo Arlington, is na de dood van haar man gedwongen haar riante leventje op te geven. Ze verhuist naar een kleurloze en mistroostige wijk ten westen van Sunset, waar voornamelijk immigranten en voormalige vluchtelingen uit Europa wonen: het zijn mensen die teren op hun herinneringen aan de goede oude tijd, zoals de Russische gravin Irina Miratova en haar bediende Mouse, de overwerkte Engelse professor Nettles en zijn pleegdochter Lea, of de cineast Dubrovnik. Maar hoe verschillend hun achtergrond ook is, ze hebben allemaal met elkaar te maken doordat ieder van hen een stukje bezit dat past in de puzzel van Hugo Arlingtons leven. Geleidelijkaan wordt dan ook duidelijk dat Alice niet de enige is die door de dood van haar man wordt achtervolgd. Wanneer de Engelse auteur Jonathan Pool, die een paar dagen in Los Angeles verblijft in de hoop dat zijn bestseller verfilmd zal worden, zijn oude vriendin Alice ontmoet, komt de waarheid rond Hugo Arlington langzaam maar zeker aan het licht. Arlington was bepaald niet de Gouden Man waar hij op het eerste gezicht altijd voor gehouden werd. Steeds meer mensen blijken op de hoogte te zijn van de dubieuze spelletjes en de macabere fantasieën die hij in praktijk bracht. Die ontdekking betekent voor de betrokkenen een herbezinning op het verleden, met als gevolg een aantal beslissingen die tot een gruwelijke climax leiden.

In his outstanding first volume of autobiography, A Postillion Struck by Lightning, Dirk Bogarde retraced his childhood and early experiences on the stage. In Snakes and Ladders, he continues his memoirs, from the trials of army training camp to the greatest challenge of his film career-the role of von Aschenbach in Death in Venice. Here, Bogarde recounts all the ups and downs and the people he encountered-family and friends, actors and actresses, directors and producers-on his way to becoming one of the finest cinematic actors of our time.

This is the fifth volume of Dirk Bogarde's autobiography, which takes him from France to London.

This is the sixth and final volume of Dirk Bogarde's autobiography. It is a recollection of a life, a gallery of family and friends in war-ravaged Europe, in India and Java, and in the London of the 1950s. He also shares his memories of Italy and Provence, and concludes in the London of today.

As work on Visconti's Death in Venice draws to a close, Dirk Bogarde is preparing his house in Provence as a retreat. This third volume of his autobiography also covers the years in which he gave some of his finest, most sensitive acting performances and began his career as a writer, imposing order on a rich and varied life.

The fourth and final volume of autobiography from Dirk Bogarde, in which he retraces his life from childhood to the present day. Like the earlier volumes, it is a very personal account of his life behind the scenes, and an affectionate, amusing and touching review of an extraordinary life.

Den engelske skuespillers biografi med baggrund i breve skrevet fra marts 1967 til januar 1970

1945. The last outpost of a fading Empire. And the final savagery of a forgotten war ... Hostilities have ceased with the ending of the war in South-East Asia. But on one island in the Java Sea, 400 miles south of Singapore, the fragile truce is plunged into the chaos of violence and nationalist uprising. As an Empire crumbles, it is those who remain to keep the peace who must fight the hardest to survive ...

William Caldicott leads a complicated life as his impending divorce looms ahead of him. Further complications are added when William receives a cryptic letter of farewell from his estranged brother James as well as the key to James' house in France. William hesitantly accepts the key and begins the search for his brother. As he delves deeper and deeper into his brother's strange life, William discovers things that even his vivid writer's imagination could not have conjured up...