Forger's Tale: Confessions of the Bolton Forger

A Forger's Tale is the 2018 Observer's Best Art Book of the Year. It details Shaun Greenhalgh's notorious career and the extraordinary circumstances that led to it. He was sentenced to four years and eight months in prison for producing artistic forgeries.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 384 pages
Publication date: 05 April 2018
Publisher: Allen & Unwin

In 2007, Shaun Greenhalgh received a four-year and eight-month prison sentence at Bolton Crown Court for the offense of creating artistic forgeries. Greenhalgh, who operated out of a shed in his parent's garden, had successfully duped some of the most prestigious museums in the world. The scope of his forgeries astonished the art world and captivated the media during the court proceedings. However, what remained unknown was the full extent of his story.

A Forger's Tale, written in prison, delves into Shaun's notorious career and the extraordinary circumstances that shaped it. From Leonardo drawings to L.S. Lowry paintings, from busts of American presidents to Anglo-Saxon brooches, from cutting-edge Modernism to the ancient art of the Stone Age, Greenhalgh possessed the ability to replicate an astonishing range of artistic creations. Told with great wit and charm, this memoir offers a definitive account of Britain's most successful and infamous forger, a man whose profound love for art permeates every page of this extraordinary memoir.

Weight: 374g
Dimension: 131 x 198 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781760295288
Edition number: Main