{"title":"Rupert Everett","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"to-the-ends-of-the-world-travels-with-oscar-wilde","title":"To the Ends of the World: Travels with Oscar Wilde","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThey say that sometimes ghosts don't realise they're dead and wander around screaming because no one is paying them any attention. Well, in show business you may have been dead five years before you finally twig. You howl around the corridors of power while the elect march straight through. Then one day you catch yourself in a mirror and there is nothing looking back.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn his highly anticipated third memoir, Rupert 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.)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTravelling 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\u003eUnflinchingly honest and hugely entertaining, \u003cem\u003eTo the End of the World\u003c\/em\u003e offers a unique insight into the 'snakes and ladders' of filmmaking. It is also a soulful and thought-provoking autobiography from one of our best-loved and most talented actors and writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47264403357990,"sku":"to-the-ends-of-the-world-travels-with-oscar-wilde","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/9c3d32ba-21a4-491c-b240-3800a745fcb0.jpg?v=1701432851"},{"product_id":"the-american-no","title":"The American No","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Rupert Everett is one of my favourite writers. He's brilliantly witty, acutely perceptive and highly sensitive, and his writing is incredibly good. His stories are both moving and tender, often outrageous, and funny too. A gifted storyteller' Santa Montefiore\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEight stories of love and loss, drama and glamour, hope and rejection, from a writer at the height of his powers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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 Russian-American 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 and touching portrayal of Proust's creative life and his childhood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe American No\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewill delight and surprise his many fans.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'A supremely gifted writer' Lynn Barber,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49420839518502,"sku":"9781408714195","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/c60348bc-cf4c-4f37-8817-0c65950326e2.jpg?v=1724432663"}],"url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.pro\/collections\/rupert-everett.oembed","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}