Dirk Bogarde Pořadí knih (chronologicky)

In the course of a distinguished writing career that began with his first volume of autobiography, Dirk Bogarde has written a substantial amount of journalism. These articles are now brought together in one volume by the book editor of the "Sunday Telegraph", John Coldstream.

There have been Grayles at Hartleap since Canute. They know this and are proud of the fact. Now they stand round the bed of the very last of their nannies, who is quietly slipping away. Ada Stephens-known as Nanny Grayle, and well into her nineties-is saying farewell. In the strange clarity which comes with the last remission, she looks at the saddened faces about her and surprises them all. She says that the most adored of her charges, Rufus, is 'tainted' and that his father, the revered war hero 'Beau' Grayle, was 'wicked'. None of them is going to get anything in her will - she has left everything to her nephew, Robert. Thus begins the final demolition of a once-proud house. Slowly, from Sunday to Thursday, as they attend to the many small duties that follow death, the unravelling begins. The family must face the fact that their way of life, and the glory which was Hartleap, will slide into Nanny's grave with her. As the terrible truth becomes known, desperately they try to close ranks...

Dommage, ce mélodrame ne vaut pas les autres livres de cet auteur-acteur britannique.

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.

"Penguin 60s."Extract from: A short walk from Harrods. Originally published: London : Viking, 1993.

Chronicles the years Ernest Hillen spent as a little boy in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp on Java. He and his family lived in Java on a tea plantation before the war and they were interned by the Japanese and transported to a series of camps.

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

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.

The sequel to the first volume of Dirk Bogarde's autobiography "A Postillion Struck by Lightning". Through the eyes of a 11-year-old in the 30s, the book recounts an idyllic childhood, a time of love and gentleness. Meanwhile the world outside prepared to go to war.

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...