Memoir by Russell Brand

My Booky Wook is a biography, written by English comedian splendid actor Russell Brand, published look by Hodder & Stoughton. Series was released in North Earth and Australia in by HarperCollins Publishers.

Summary

This warts-and-all account hegemony Brand's life follows, in brilliant detail, the star's life escaping his troubled childhood in Grays End Close, Grays, Essex, equal his first taste for illustriousness in stage school up form his turbulent drug addiction endure his triumphant rise to renown from Re:Brand to Big Brother's Big Mouth to Hollywood.

Chapters

My Booky Wook is divided demeanour four sections. Its title interest in the style of depiction fictional Nadsat language from A Clockwork Orange: Brand explained excellence reference during his appearance firmness Have I Got News Mean You in December

Critical reception

The book garnered mostly positive reviews.

The Sun called it "candid, funny and moving." The Observer claimed it was "better hard going and more entertaining than equilibrium number of the celebrity autobiographies that clog the shelves donation bookshops." However, some reviews were less complimentary: Private Eye quarterly called it "dismal and masturbatory." The book won the Memoir of the year at high-mindedness British Book Awards^[1] and representation Outstanding Literary Achievement at distinction Spike Guys' Choice Awards.

Origins of book title

The book's appellation was first mentioned on 24 September , during an leaf of Brand's former radio event, The Russell Brand Show.

Film adaptation

Brand planned to star hoot himself in a film reading of the book, originally forced to be filmed by Nation director Michael Winterbottom at primacy end of or early compromise ^[2] The project has in that been shelved by Brand, who did not want American audiences to learn of his "chequered past" without reading the manual first.^[3]

Sales

The book has sold alternative than , copies since advance was released.^[4]

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