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All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art: Shortlisted for the 2024 Nero Book Awards

Orlando Whitfield

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Shortlisted for the 2024 Nero Book Award for Non-Fiction

An Economist, Independent and Waterstones Book of the Year pick for 2024

A 2024 Summer Read in the Economist, Telegraph, Guardian, New Yorker, i, and the Evening Standard

'An art world Great Gatsby, deliciously withering and dishy.' Patrick Radden Keefe

'A brilliant, devastating expose' William Boyd

'Explosive... the inside story of the biggest art fraud in American history' Guardian

'Liar's Poker, but for art' Economist

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.

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Praise for All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art: Shortlisted for the 2024 Nero Book Awards

  • The art world can exemplify everything bad about money and people and their avarice as well as everything that is good about our ineffable capacity for beauty and curiosity and truth. It is precisely this bizarre mixture - this heady, just-shy-of toxic cocktail - that makes it so potent and engrossing, that sucked both Inigo and me in, and spat us out, broken, in our early thirties. - From the Prologue

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