“The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life; Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!"
Robert Browning
1812-1889

“Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
Virginia Woolf
1882-1941

Anne Holland is a well-known author of many non-fiction books about horse racing. Archer’s Up interweaves the fictionalised biography of Fred Archer, the richest and most famous nineteenth century jockey and the life story of Frankie Dettori, the most famous jockey of the modern era.