Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988-2003

By Roy C. Strong and Roy Strong

Book Overview

'Viper wit from the gardener, writer and Knight of exquisite taste' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'Funny, barbed and moving ... magnificently readable' THE TIMES

Scenes and Apparitions covers a period of Roy Strong's life from 1988 to 2003. A sequel to Splendours and Miseries, it is an unmissable record of how a citizen at the close of the second Elizabethan age observed and chronicled his own world at the turn of the century. Although it is not without tragedy - the murder of his friend Gianni Versace, and the death of his beloved wife Julia Trevelyan Oman - there is plenty to enjoy from his descriptions of Elton John's fiftieth birthday party, to a concert for the Queen Mother, and his portraits of marriage, friendship, work and his celebrated garden, The Laskett.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474603904
• ISBN13: 9781474603904
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.0" x 7.7"