The American No

'Richly imagined and extraordinarily affecting... Everett is a terrific storyteller' Hadley Freeman, Sunday Times

By: Rupert Everett

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Paperback | 11 November 2025 | Edition Number 1

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336 Pages

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'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, Observer

'Everett is a brilliant writer - funny, waspish, warm and seductive' Camilla Long, The Times

'[An] eccentric and exquisite new collection of stories' Tatler

Richly imagined and extraordinarily affecting... Everett is a terrific storyteller' Hadley Freeman, Sunday Times

Eight stories of love and loss, drama and glamour, hope and rejection, from a writer at the height of his powers.

In 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.

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, The American No will delight and surprise his many fans.

Industry Reviews

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 - Daily Telegraph, praise for Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins

A supremely gifted writer - Lynn Barber, The Times, praise for Vanished Years

Most of all he is just a very good writer indeed - Julie Burchill, Observer, praise for Vanished Years

In a sharp, scabrous account of his lifelong love of Oscar, the actor again proves himself a masterly writer...Everett is a deliciously gifted writer. Nothing and no one escapes his attention - Rachel Cooke, Observer, praise for To the End of the World

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