All That Glitters

A 2024 Book of the Year pick in the Economist, Independent, Prospect, Apollo, New Yorker and at Waterstones A 2024 Summer Read in the Economist, Telegraph, Guardian, New Yorker, i, and the Evening Standard 'My favourite book of 2024... A masterclass of a book' Brandon Taylor 'An art world Great Gatsby, deliciously withering and dishy.' Patrick Radden Keefe 'Orlando Whitfield [is a] really good writer with crazy stories to tell' Hanif Kureishi 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. 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. 'Explosive... the inside story of the biggest art fraud in American history' Guardian 'Liar's Poker, but for art' Economist