Anthony Holden

Writer; Gooner; Sandgrounder; poker-player; father of 3; grandfather of 4

[Gyles Brandreth @GylesB1]

The sun is shining: I should be out in it. Instead, I'm back at the desk, but I'm not complaining. I've had a treat: a happy brunch with the great @AntHolden award-winning journalist & biographer! I now have the paperback of his roller-coaster memoir: https://t.co/irJKytfyDl

[Anthony Holden @AntHolden]

@GylesB1 Thanks so much, dear Gyles - l really hope it's right up there with your very own Odd Boy Out !

[Gyles Brandreth @GylesB1]

I’ve been to a marvellous party … & the cupcakes were as delicious as the book whose cover they bear is brilliant. “Based on a True Story” is the roller-coaster autobiography of ⁦writer, biographer, poker player @AntHolden⁩ - published today & my book of the year.

[Ben Holden @thatbenholden]

Proud as punch to have been at the launch of my dad @AntHolden’s memoir last night. ‘Based on a True Story’ is a triumph - not least as half of it was written with one finger post stroke. Moving to fete his life & times - now everyone can read all about them! #WorldStrokeDay2021

[Anthony Holden @AntHolden]

Imminent - at last ! - read all about me :
https://t.co/fx4HCXminy

[Anthony Holden @AntHolden]

@DenisMacShane Thanks for the plug, dear Denis, but it's an autobio of myself, not yet another one of Charles !
https://t.co/fx4HCXminy

[Anthony Holden @AntHolden]

GREAT to see you both, dear Gyles !

[Gyles Brandreth @GylesB1]

A happy get-together today with the great ⁦@AntHolden⁩ - biographer, journalist, poker player, friend since 1967 … we both have autobiographies coming out this autumn: his on 28 Oct, mine on 16 Sept. His has the better title. See what you think while pre-ordering!

[Anthony Holden @AntHolden]

@GylesB1 You sure do, dear Gyles !

[Gyles Brandreth @GylesB1]

This autumn is going to be a season of misty eyes & mellow fruitiness as volumes of memoirs written in lockdown hit the bookshops. Someone who features in mine https://t.co/ED36Tgl54r is my contemporary & friend Anthony Holden. I'm hoping I feature in his:
https://t.co/7DPUXrl6Fb

[Ben Holden @thatbenholden]

David Cornwell’s / John le Carré’s choice for Poems that make Grown Men Cry resounds so boldly and movingly today, now he is himself ‘at rest’ - just as his own majestic work will endure.
#JohnLeCarré ⁦⁦@AntHolden⁩ ⁩⁦⁦@PoemsMenCry⁩ ⁦@AmnestyUK⁩

[Poems Men Cry @PoemsMenCry]

Mourning Harry Evans, we revisit his choice ‘Character of the Happy Warrior’. Much of Harry’s tribute to mentor Denis Hamilton today applies to himself, just as Wordsworth’s verse also characterises this inspirational man: happy warrior, whose ‘moral being was his prime concern’.

[Anthony Holden @AntHolden]

@MrBenJeffrey Much appreciated, Ben; and thanks for your kind words re the book(s). Yes, Al had been a very close friend for more than 50 years - wise, generous and full of infectious laughter. l and many others will miss him very much.

[Ben Holden @thatbenholden]

You’re better off reading @AntHolden ‘s biography of the Bard anyway. Or Frank Kermode. Or Tony Nutall. Or Stanley Wells. Or James Shapiro. Or Marjorie Garber. Or Harold Bloom. Or Jonathan Bate. Or Stephen Greenblatt. Or, come to think of it, the texts themselves...

[Deadline @DEADLINE]

Fred & Adele Astaire Story & WWII Thriller ‘The Zero Hour’ In The Works For Altitude — Cannes https://t.co/EqT3rsRtvZ

[Ben Holden @thatbenholden]

An exciting way to start the year, diving into page proofs and remembering anew My First Memory... #MyFirstMemory @ScribnerUK @refugeecouncil @simonschusterUK

[Andrew Dickson @andydickson]

Blistering, brutal, painfully accurate. God help us all

[Anthony Holden @AntHolden]

Master magician (as seen live at the Old Vic, complete with water melons), ace card trickster, actor supreme in the David Mamet repertory company - and all-round top guy #RIP

[Anthony Holden @AntHolden]

A great treat for me to see you both - and thanks for the book(s) ! Again soon... x

[Gyles Brandreth @GylesB1]

Treat of the day: happy lunch with great biographer, poker player & friend, @AntHolden - & so to bed with his ace biography of Shakespeare.

[Ben Holden @thatbenholden]

Last week, buried among memorabilia of his life in football, we found this striking photo of (great) grandfather Ivan Sharpe at the front (seated left). The stares, from that wasteland, still pierce the lens a century later. #RemembranceDay #RemembranceDay2018