John Coldstream: Ever, Dirk: The Bogarde Letters [2008] hardback RELAT Wolfson Prize for History and

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the Booker Prize-winning novelist Howard Jacobson wrote a weekly column for the Independent

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John Coldstream: Ever, Dirk: The Bogarde Letters [2008] hardback RELAT Wolfson Prize for History andThe success of John Coldstream's bestselling biography of Dirk Bogarde demonstrates that the interest in one of Britain's leading actors, memoirists and novelists does not diminish, even though it is a decade since his death. Bogarde was a secretive man, who destroyed many of his own papers and diaries. Fortunately, the recipients of his letters treasured them, enabling John Coldstream to bring together this fascinating collection of hitherto