All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art: A Guardian and FT Book to Read in 2024

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'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.

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'The culture of discretion that enshrouds the art market obscures a multitude of sins, so it is bracing (and great fun) to watch Orlando Whitfield flout the code of silence to name names, cite prices, and reveal scams. ALL THAT GLITTERS is an art world GREAT GATSBY, deliciously withering and dishy, a parable about the price of beauty, the power of charisma, and the limits of friendship.' - Patrick Radden Keefe, author of

'The art world revealed in this delicious, sharp and often breathtaking memoir is one of excess and illusion those of us outside it can barely imagine, and Whitfield unveils it nimbly and wisely. Funny, juicy, wistful and sad, it's destined to be one of the books of 2024' - Megan Nolan, author

'One of the hottest memoirs of 2024' - Sunday Times Style

'A tremendous book. A fantastically entertaining and brutally honest account of the scurrility of the contemporary art world. A brilliant, devastating expose' - William Boyd, author

'When high-flying art-dealer Inigo Philbrick was convicted of a multimillion-dollar fraud, it rocked the industry ... Whitfield details the web of deceit that led to his downfall' - 'Books to look out for in 2024'

Author Bio

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.