# The New Confessions

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/william-boyd/the-new-confessions/9780241970393

![The New Confessions](https://quivercdn.com/covers/penguin/william-boyd/the-new-confessions_978-02-4197-039-3.jpg?v=2026-04-25%2015%3A52%3A05)

- Book: [The New Confessions](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-boyd/the-new-confessions) ([The New Confessions.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-boyd/the-new-confessions.md))
- Authors: [William Boyd](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-boyd)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4197-039-3
- Published: 2013-12-19
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

The New Confessions is the outrageous, extraordinary, hilarious and heartbreaking autobiography of John James Todd, a Scotsman born in 1899 and one of the great self-appointed (and failed) geniuses of the twentieth century. 'An often magnificent feat of story-telling and panoramic reconstruction ... John James Todd's reminiscences carry us through the ups and downs of a long and lively career that begins in genteel Edinburgh, devastatingly detours out to the Western Front, forks off, after a period of cosy family life in London, to the electric excitements of the Berlin film-world of the Twenties, then moves on to Hollywood ... to ordeal by McCarthyism and eventual escape to Europe' Peter Kemp, Observer.