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‘I loved it. Coleridge is each self-deprecating and clever as he regales us together with his rollicking experience as editor and tastemaker on this planet of British Shiny magazines: an impossible to resist learn’ Tina Brown
Diana touched your elbow, your arm, coated your hand with hers. It used to be attractive. And she or he used to be disarmingly confiding.
“Can I ask you one thing? Nicholas, please be frank…”
Over his thirty-12 months occupation at Condé Nast, Nicholas Coleridge has witnessed all of it. From the anxieties of the Princess of Wales to the blazing fury of Mohamed Al-Fayed, his tale may be the tale of the individuals who populate the glamorous global of Shiny magazines. With delight in and impressive candour, he gives the interior scoop on Tina Brown and Anna Wintour, David Bowie and Philip Inexperienced, Kate Moss and Beyonce; on Margaret Thatcher’s garments legacy, and a surreal weekend away with Bob Geldof and William Hague. Cara Delevingne, media tycoons, Top Ministers, Princes, Mayors and Maharajas – all pass his trail.
His occupation in magazines straddles the glossies right through their superb zenith – from the Seventies, Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties to the virtual iterations of the twenty first century. Having lower his enamel on Tatler, and as Editor-in-Leader of Harpers & Queen, he become the Mr Massive of Shiny publishing for 3 many years.
Packed with sudden and regularly hilarious anecdotes, The Shiny Years also supplies perceptive perception into the converting and treacherous worlds of style, journalism, museums and a complete sweep of British society. It is a wealthy, truthful, witty and really private memoir of a existence wonderfully lived.
‘Coleridge writes like a dream’ Observer
