Rupert Everett: 9780000012999 [2013] paperback voucher From its founding in Florence

From its founding in Florence in 1921 as luggage supplier to the elite to its modern standing as purveyor of cult accessories and couture

broke the existing rules

and a drive to be the kind of coach he needed when his life was broken

Death is near

'I think that The Color Purple was the first book that made me think that I could try to be a writer - or that made me aware that a young black woman from the South could write about the South'

Rupert Everett: 9780000012999 [2013] paperback voucher From its founding in FlorenceRupert Everett's first memoir Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins was an international bestseller and an instant classic on publication in 2006. Reviewers compared him to Evelyn Waugh, David Niven, Noel Coward and Lord Byron. But Rupert Everett is of course one of a kind. Mischievous, touching and nothing less than brilliant, this new memoir is filled with stories, from childhood to the present. Astonishing encounters; tragedy and comedy; vivid