All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art: A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

A 2024 Summer Read in the Economist , Telegraph , Guardian , the i , and the Evening Standard ‘ A n art world Great Gatsby , deliciously withering and dishy.’ Patrick Radden Keefe ‘Explosive … the inside story of the biggest art fraud in American history’ Guardian ‘Liar’s Poker , but for art’ Economist ‘A brilliant, devastating exposé’ 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. – ASIN: 1788169956 | ISBN13: 9781788169950 | ISBN-13: 978-1788169950