To the End of the WorldThey 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 elected march straight through. Then one day you catch yourself in a mirror and there is nothing looking back. In his highly anticipated third memoir, Rupert Everett tells the story of how he

A propulsive narrative history

and inexorably shaping their hopes and dreams

one of Hedd Wyn's friends who fought alongside him in battle

You know about MI6

his wife Emily asleep beside him

What does it mean to want intimacy

The massive Christmas 2011 bestseller and Radio 4 Book of the Week

Perhaps even more surprising was the fact that so many of these great houses survived

Some seek advice

re-shaping landscapes and culinary tastes

politicians and private corporations that own England

And what may happen to us