
All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art:
'One of the hottest memoirs of 2024' Sunday Times Style
A Guardian 'Books to look out for in 2024' pick * A Financial Times 'What to Read in 2024' pick
'An art world Great Gatsby, deliciously withering and dishy.' Patrick Radden Keefe
'Delicious, sharp and often breathtaking' Megan Nolan
'A brilliant, devastating expose' William Boyd
DECEPTION IS A FINE ART.
When Orlando Whitfield first meets Inigo Philbrick, they are students dreaming of dealing art for a living. Their friendship lasts for fifteen years until one day, Inigo - by then the most successful dealer of his generation - disappears, accused of a fraud so gigantic and audacious it rocks the art world to its core.
A sparklingly sharp memoir of greed, ambition and madness, All That Glitters will take you to the heart of the contemporary art world, a place wilder and wealthier than you could ever imagine.
Orlando Whitfield graduated from Goldsmiths University in 2009. He started dealing art while still a student, and worked in and around the art market for fifteen years. His writing has appeared in the Paris Reviewand the White Review. All That Glitters is his first book.
Author: Orlando Whitfield
Format: Hardback, 336 pages, 231mm x 320mm, 548 g
Published: 2024, Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom
Genre: True Crime
'One of the hottest memoirs of 2024' Sunday Times Style
A Guardian 'Books to look out for in 2024' pick * A Financial Times 'What to Read in 2024' pick
'An art world Great Gatsby, deliciously withering and dishy.' Patrick Radden Keefe
'Delicious, sharp and often breathtaking' Megan Nolan
'A brilliant, devastating expose' William Boyd
DECEPTION IS A FINE ART.
When Orlando Whitfield first meets Inigo Philbrick, they are students dreaming of dealing art for a living. Their friendship lasts for fifteen years until one day, Inigo - by then the most successful dealer of his generation - disappears, accused of a fraud so gigantic and audacious it rocks the art world to its core.
A sparklingly sharp memoir of greed, ambition and madness, All That Glitters will take you to the heart of the contemporary art world, a place wilder and wealthier than you could ever imagine.
Orlando Whitfield graduated from Goldsmiths University in 2009. He started dealing art while still a student, and worked in and around the art market for fifteen years. His writing has appeared in the Paris Reviewand the White Review. All That Glitters is his first book.
