Outsider: Always Almost: Never Quite: II

The first volume of Brian Sewell''s scandalous and haunting memoir was met by riotous applause in the press. ''Outsider is a delicious read ...I want more - much more,'' wrote Rachel Cooke in the Guardian. ''This book records an extraordinary life and will, I hope, soon be continued,'' added Lynn Barber in the Sunday Times. Outsider II will certainly not disappoint. With the first instalment ending tantalisingly in 1967 - after exploring Sewell''s childhood, adolescence and early adulthood - this next chapter charts his path to becoming, as the Spectator noted, ''Surely the funniest art critic of our time.'' See more