Rupert Everett shot to fame with the film Another Country in 1984 and has been a hugely successful actor and writer for many years. His films include The Madness of King George III; My Best Friend's Wedding; Shrek II and III; Shakespeare in Love and St Trinian's. His stage work includes playing Oscar Wilde in David Hare's The Judas Kiss (2012), for which he won the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Actor in a Play and was nominated for an OIivier Award. His first memoir, Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins, was a Sunday Times bestseller and its sequel, Vanished Years, won the Sheridan Morley Prize for Biography. His film of Oscar Wilde's last years, The Happy Prince, was released in 2018 to widespread acclaim.
A rude and uproarious new memoir about the vicissitudes of fame and
his attempts to make a film about the last days of Oscar Wilde
*The Times Books of the Year*
Another actor who can really write is Rupert Everett. His latest
memoir, To the End of the World, about making his Oscar Wilde film,
is reliably hilarious - even if the joke is now always at his
expense: "like a toothless old circus dog, I yap yes to
everything", he writes, as he hoovers up "a couple of dry martinis
to conjure up a bit of sloshed sparkle - the dregs of my star
quality"
*Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year 2020*
Both a caustic reflection on the iniquities of show business and an
account of his decade-long efforts to bring Oscar Wilde's The Happy
Prince to the screen. The writing is as sparkling as the anecdotes
are riotous: he stands up Joan Collins for dinner and throws up on
Colin Firth
*Guardian Books of the Year 2020*
The joy of Everett as a writer has always been his pitilessly
clear-eyed perspective, especially of himself...Everett has become
one of the most delightful writers about modern fame...He has a
writing style as seductive as his youthful beauty...every sentence
Everett writes rings with his personality, and it's a personality
that has always been irresistible
*Hadley Freeman, Guardian Book of the Day*
Everett is wonderfully sharp, and alive to all the comical
absurdities of the movie business...he turns out to be a masterly
travel writer, with the magical ability to make a city or a
building or a group of people burst into life in a few words...Like
Everett's other books, To The End Of The World is also very funny
and revealing about the shallow nature of stardom
*Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday*
This is tremendous
*Rev. Richard Coles*
Like its preceding volumes, Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins and
Vanished Years, it quivers with honesty, A-list gossip and sardonic
prose...We should really start describing him as a writer who acts,
rather than the other way round...He's brilliantly caustic on
Hollywood and the march of time...."Why hadn't I realised I could
write?" he asks of his younger self. The answer, probably, is
simple. He needed those years of excess, hissy fits and
humiliations to fuel his imagination
*The Times*
In a sharp, scabrous account of his lifelong love of Oscar, the
actor again proves himself a masterly writer...it is just about
everything you could want, at least in a memoir by an actor. We
know, by now, that Everett is a deliciously gifted writer. Nothing
and no one escapes his attention...However wasteful and capricious
his first profession, we know that he is perfectly safe. The blank
page will henceforth always be his. He is a writer to his (aching)
bones
*Rachel Cooke, Observer*
His resilient energy, sharp-eyed intelligence and keen sense of the
ridiculous, as well as his capacity for short-term enjoyment of
life's sensual pleasures, infuse his writing with a warm glow...the
sheer force of his personality is irresistible and there isn't a
dull moment...anyone reading this shrewd and entertaining book is
going to lend him an ear
*Telegraph*
This impeccably stylish and hilariously bitchy collection of
anecdotes...Everett's story of a magnificently barmy obsession that
leads him into some of the loveliest hotels in Europe
*Financial Times*
It's such a beautiful book...It's so beautifully written and it's
just gorgeous
*Graham Norton, the Graham Norton Show*
Every page of this third volume of his memoirs sparkles. He writes
with ready wit, fetching self-deprecation and a turn of phrase that
brings places and people vividly to life. He can capture a
character in a sentence or convey the fading grandeur of a hotel
and city in a few lines...You hope there are more adventures to
come and that Everett continues to chronicle them with the wit and
panache that he displays here
*Daily Express*
A charming and witty account of a largely horrible experience,
interspersed with lovely recollections of a more debauched past
*Philip Hensher, Spectator*
An amazing man. And such a good writer...This book is amazing
*Chris Evans, The Chris Evans Breakfast Show*
Such a brilliant writer
*Janet Street-Porter, Loose Women*
Witty and well observed, it's a must-read
*Grazia*
As Everett ricochets from Paris to Naples, Berlin to Venice in
search of funding and locations, he captures the snakes-and-ladders
world of international film finance. It takes a saintly forbearance
to survive all the setbacks in the film's making, along with the
stalwart support of loyal friends from Colin Firth to Emily
Watson
*Mirror*
It is impossible to overstate just how brilliant this book is:
fearless, soulful and so articulate that ever single page
mesmerises....If Oscar was around today, this is the book that he'd
be reading.
*Attitude*
To the End of the World is quite as brilliant as its two
predecessors. It is sharp, camp, fearless, touching and very, very
funny
*The Oldie*
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