{"title":"Books by Rupert Everett","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781408714195","title":"The American No","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Full of kindness, even tenderness... He is a brilliant writer: opulently gossipy as few are these days, but also truthful, witty, wise and stoical' Rachel Cooke, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Everett is a brilliant writer - funny, waspish, warm and seductive' Camilla Long,\u003ci\u003e The Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'[An] eccentric and exquisite new collection of stories' Tatler\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichly imagined and extraordinarily affecting... Everett is a terrific storyteller\u003c\/b\u003e' \u003cb\u003eHadley Freeman, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEight stories of love and loss, drama and glamour, hope and rejection, from a writer at the height of his powers.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Rupert Everett's first, glorious collection of stories, he takes us on an exhilarating journey with a cast of extraordinary characters. A blackly humorous story of a chaotic and emotional funeral in Paris. Oscar Wilde's last night in Paris, vividly evocative, unflinching and elegiac. A middle-aged American-Russian countess who confronts sex and age in a Wiltshire teashop. The ferociously unforgiving life of an L.A. talent agency and the unexpected twist that launches a completely different kind of career. The deathbed confession of a woman who left home for 1850s India, never to return. A story of emigration, love and grief. And a beautifully evocative, touching and witty portrayal of Proust's creative life and his childhood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A brilliantly witty, funny and tender collection of stories that draws on the wealth of film and TV ideas Rupert Everett has created over the course of his career, \u003ci\u003eThe American No \u003c\/i\u003ewill delight and surprise his many fans.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57685896331637,"sku":"9780349144726","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":44583431143602,"sku":"9781408714195","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780349144726.jpg?v=1792599126"},{"product_id":"red-carpets-and-other-banana-skins-by-rupert-everett","title":"Red Carpets And Other Banana Skins","description":"\u003cp\u003e'\u003cb\u003eHilariously honest\u003c\/b\u003e. . . a kind of rake's progress' \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn element of drama has always attended Rupert Everett, even before he swept to fame with his outstanding performance in 'Another Country'. He has spent his life surrounded by extraordinary people, and witnessed extraordinary events. He was in Moscow during the fall of communism; in Berlin the night the wall came down; and in downtown Manhattan on September 11th. By the age of 17 he was friends with Andy Warhol and Bianca Jagger, and since then he has been up close and personal with some of the most famous women in the world: Julia Roberts, Madonna, Sharon Stone and Donatella Versace. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhether sweeping the floor for the Royal Shakespeare Company or co-starring with Faye Dunaway and an orang-utan in 'Dunstan Checks In' (they both took ages to get ready), Rupert Everett always brings as much energy and talent to his life as he does to his career. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA superb raconteur and a keen observer of human folly (especially his own), Rupert Everett turns his life into a captivating story of love, fame, glamour, gossip and drama.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for\u003ci\u003e Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'He has an almost fanatical loyalty to the concept of enjoyment, to the detriment, it might be argued, of his art, though to the great enrichment of his being; and for Rupert, as he makes clear in \u003cb\u003ethis continuously brilliant memoir, the best theatrical autobiography since Noël Coward's \u003ci\u003ePresent Indicative\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, acting is being...a superb and unexpectedly inspiring achievement' \u003cb\u003eSimon Callow, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Lush, profoundly reflective, and thoroughly satisfying...\u003cb\u003ea heady triumph of observation and reverie'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'What makes this autobiography a (novelistic) masterpiece is the way he is acutely aware of the melancholia and pain that are the other side of hedonism's coin' \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44653513015474,"sku":"9780349120584","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780349120584_a98394fa-54f9-43eb-99f1-148e21cf76d7.jpg?v=1786013932"},{"product_id":"9780349139784","title":"To the End of the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Quivers with honesty, A-list gossip and sardonic prose' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eEverett is a deliciously gifted writer. Nothing and no one escapes his attention' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRupert Everett tells the story of how he set out to make a film of Oscar Wilde's last days, and how that ten-year quest almost destroyed him. (And everyone else.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Travelling across Europe for the film, he weaves in extraordinary tales from his past, remembering wild times, freak encounters and lost friends. There are celebrities, of course. But we also meet glamorous but doomed Aunt Peta, who introduces Rupert (aged three) to the joys of make-up. In '90s Paris, his great friend Lychee burns bright, and is gone. While in '70s London, a 'weirdly tall, beyond size zero' teenage Rupert is expelled from the Central School of Speech and Drama. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Unflinchingly honest and hugely entertaining, \u003ci\u003eTo the End of the World\u003c\/i\u003e offers a unique insight into the 'snakes and ladders' of filmmaking. 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