The Glossy Years

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Over his thirty-year career at Condé Nast, Nicholas Coleridge has witnessed it all. From the anxieties of the Princess of Wales to the blazing fury of Mohamed Al-Fayed, his story is also the story of the people who populate the glamorous world of glossy magazines. With relish and astonishing candour, he offers the inside scoop on Tina Brown and Anna Wintour, David Bowie and Philip Green, Kate Moss and Beyonce and a surreal weekend away with Bob Geldof and William Hague. The Glossy Years also provides perceptive insight into the changing and treacherous worlds of fashion, journalism, museums and a whole sweep of British society. This is a rich, honest, witty and very personal memoir of a life splendidly lived.

Critics Review

  • Coleridge is a witty writer . . . reading this book is like sitting next to a sharp but generous-hearted raconteur at dinner

    Mail on Sunday
  • Has bounding vitality, glorious zest and and an uplifting generosity of spirit. It is always playful, sometimes hilarious – but above all it is wise

    Richard Davenport-Hines, Literary Review
  • In these dark days of everlasting Brexit, Nicholas Coleridge’s sparkling memoir is a welcome reminder that all is not gloom and doom. Witty, nimble and engaging, it is wonderfully entertaining and a marvellous slice of social history

    Jane Ridley, Spectator
  • A deliciously moreish memoir of the author’s glittering career in magazine publishing. Like having a really good gossip over a glass of fizz with Evelyn Waugh.

    Allison Pearson, Sunday Telegraph
  • Tittle-tattle, tiffs and titanic egos, this book has them all. A hugely entertaining read by the ultimate insider

    A Sunday Times best memoir of 2019
  • Forthright, witty and gossipy . . . a passion for glossy magazines shines through this effervescent memoir

    Sunday Express

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