'... this massively researched biography... Bogarde's double life is sensitively handled as well as the actor's late flowering into an autobiographer and novelist of great skill.'
Quentin Falk - ACADEMY MAGAZINE

'... this extremely interesting life of a determined stage actor, reluctant film star, gay icon and wicked charmer has been beautifully documented, with fairness, enthusiasm and quite exceptional diligence.'
Michael Coveney - THE GUARDIAN

'Coldstream manages to be understanding and admiring, without being gushing, and so thorough is the research that it's hard to imagine there is anything left to say.' -
George Perry - THE SUNDAY TIMES

'Biographies only tend to be definitive until the next one comes along, but there's no danger of Coldstream's erudite, moving analysis ever being superseded.'
Christopher Fowler
THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

ISBN:0-297-60730-8
Published: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004

ALSO AVAILABLE IN PHOENIX PAPERBACK - ISBN:0-75381-985-6

John Coldstream was Literary Editor of The Daily Telegraph  from 1991 to 1999. He edited For the Time Being  (1998), a collection of Dirk Bogarde’s journalism, and is now at work on a selection of Dirk's letters.

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