Over his thirty-year career at conde 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 win tour, David Bowie and Philip Green, Kate moss and beyond 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.