Alan Halliday trained at the Courtauld Institute of Art and was awarded a DPhil from Oxford University in 1982. Since then, he has been a full-time artist, specialising in paintings of performers and performances. In 2008, he moved to France where he lives and works as an artist and writer with a great interest in film.
At Oxford University in the early 1970s, James D'Arblay was a talented and good-looking young man with a reputation for unreliability. A compulsive actor and musician and a man of considerable physical charm, D'Arblay is drawn towards the romantic life and the flamboyant poetry of Lord Byron. " class="product_extract"> At Oxford University in the early 1970s, James D'Arblay was a talented and good-looking young man with a reputation for unreliability. A compulsive actor and musician and a man of considerable physical charm, D'Arblay is drawn towards the romantic life and the flamboyant poetry of Lord Byron.
Alan Halliday plunges the reader into a potent cocktail of Proust, sex, drugs, haute couture, Pop Art, theatre, opera, ballet and photography.
The main protagonist comes on stage immediately in the opening lines... Ana Anderssen, Professor of History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London. The tug-of-war continues in France, at Champigny-sur-Veude, a village in Indre-et-Loire,some fifty kilometres from Tours.
