He is the author of several books on the Windsors as well as other acclaimed works of non-fiction. From 1979 he assisted Maitre Suzanne Blum, the Parisian lawyer of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
Michael Bloch was born in 1953 and trained for the law. The book’s appearance, in the same month as. From 1979 he assisted Maitre Suzanne Blum, the Parisian lawyer of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Jeremy Thorpe by Michael Bloch Little, Brown, pp.606, 25 The back story of Michael Bloch’s biography of Jeremy Thorpe is a story in itself. Michael Bloch’s magisterial biography is not just a brilliant retelling of this amazing story ten years in the making, it is also the definitive character study of one of the most fascinating figures in post-war British politics. Michael Bloch was born in 1953 and trained for the law. Jeremy was acquitted of involvement but his career was in ruins. Scott’s incessant boasts about their ‘affair’ became increasingly embarrassing, and eventually led to a bizarre murder plot to shut him up for good. But as his star steadily rose so his nemesis drew ever nearer: a time-bomb in the form of Norman Scott, a homosexual wastrel and sometime male model with whom Jeremy had formed an ill-advised relationship in the early 1960s. When he became leader of the Liberal Party in 1967 at the age of just thirty-seven, he seemed destined for truly great things. The story of Jeremy Thorpe’s rapid rise and spectacular fall from grace is one of the most remarkable in British politics.
‘A revealing, insightful and gripping biography of one of the most extraordinary people ever to lead a British political party’ Observer
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