All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art (Signed Edition)

Orlando Whitfield

£10.99

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.

Paperback

ISBN: 9781788169967

Published March 2025

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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 – suddenly disappears, accused of a fraud so gigantic and audacious it rocks the art world to its core.

Explosive…the inside story of the biggest art fraud in American history’ – Guardian

Liar’s Poker, but for art’ – Economist

My favourite book of 2024…A masterclass of a book’ – Brandon Taylor

‘An art world Great Gatsby, deliciously withering and dishy’ – Patrick Radden Keefe

A 2024 Book of the Year pick in the Economist, Independent, Prospect, Apollo, New Yorker and at WaterstonesA 2024 Summer Read in the Economist, Telegraph, Guardian, New Yorker, i, and the Evening Standard

 

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Weight 0.4 kg
Dimensions 20 × 13 × 5 cm