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Berserker!

by Adrian Edmondson
Adrian Edmondson
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Hilariously read by the author, Adrian Edmondson.
A Financial Times Best Audio of 2023
The instant Sunday Times bestseller
From brutal schooldays to 80s anarchy, through The Young Ones, Bottom and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of-a-kind, fascinating memoir from an icon of British comedy, Adrian Edmondson.
*****
'Everything Adrian Edmondson writes about makes you love him desperately' - Caitlin Moran
'The Berserkers from The Young Ones and Bottom tells his story with self-effacing charm and no end of backstage ancedotes' - Ian Rankin
'This is a bloody good book. Lots of people live interesting lives, but very few people can write genuinely interesting books about those lives. Adrian Edmondson has done both. It is incredibly funny, but it is also a lot, lot more than that' - Miles Jupp
'More fun than reading Hegel, and also more enlightening' - Louis de Bernières
'A hilarious romp through a golden era of comedy and a searingly honest and moving memoir' - Red Magazine
'The bravest, most affecting celebrity book of the year' - Daily Express
'Edmondson can be very funny and very poignant simultaneously' - Daily Mirror
*****
Ade Edmondson smashed onto the comedy circuit in the 1980s, stormed The Comedy Store and, alongside Rik Mayall, brought anarchy to stage and screen. How did a child brought up in a strict Methodist household – and who spent his formative years incarcerated in repressive boarding schools – end up joining the revolution? Well, he is part Norse. Could it be his 'berserker' heritage?
With wisdom, nostalgia and uniquely observed humour, Ade traces his journey through life and comedy: starting out on the alternative scene, getting arrested in Soho, creating his outrageously violent characters and learning more about his curious (possibly Scandinavian) heritage. With star-studded anecdotes and set to a soundtrack of pop hits which transport the listener through time, it's a memoir like no other.
Berserker [noun]: A Norse warrior frenzied in battle and held to be invulnerable; often off his tits on henbane and large quantities of alcohol; one who is out of control with anger or excitement.

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Publisher: Pan Macmillan Edition: Unabridged

OverDrive Listen audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781035014309
  • File size: 341263 KB
  • Release date: September 28, 2023
  • Duration: 11:50:57

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781035014309
  • File size: 341301 KB
  • Release date: September 28, 2023
  • Duration: 11:57:52
  • Number of parts: 10

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OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook

subjects

Art Biography & Autobiography Nonfiction Entertainment

Languages

English

Hilariously read by the author, Adrian Edmondson.
A Financial Times Best Audio of 2023
The instant Sunday Times bestseller
From brutal schooldays to 80s anarchy, through The Young Ones, Bottom and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of-a-kind, fascinating memoir from an icon of British comedy, Adrian Edmondson.
*****
'Everything Adrian Edmondson writes about makes you love him desperately' - Caitlin Moran
'The Berserkers from The Young Ones and Bottom tells his story with self-effacing charm and no end of backstage ancedotes' - Ian Rankin
'This is a bloody good book. Lots of people live interesting lives, but very few people can write genuinely interesting books about those lives. Adrian Edmondson has done both. It is incredibly funny, but it is also a lot, lot more than that' - Miles Jupp
'More fun than reading Hegel, and also more enlightening' - Louis de Bernières
'A hilarious romp through a golden era of comedy and a searingly honest and moving memoir' - Red Magazine
'The bravest, most affecting celebrity book of the year' - Daily Express
'Edmondson can be very funny and very poignant simultaneously' - Daily Mirror
*****
Ade Edmondson smashed onto the comedy circuit in the 1980s, stormed The Comedy Store and, alongside Rik Mayall, brought anarchy to stage and screen. How did a child brought up in a strict Methodist household – and who spent his formative years incarcerated in repressive boarding schools – end up joining the revolution? Well, he is part Norse. Could it be his 'berserker' heritage?
With wisdom, nostalgia and uniquely observed humour, Ade traces his journey through life and comedy: starting out on the alternative scene, getting arrested in Soho, creating his outrageously violent characters and learning more about his curious (possibly Scandinavian) heritage. With star-studded anecdotes and set to a soundtrack of pop hits which transport the listener through time, it's a memoir like no other.
Berserker [noun]: A Norse warrior frenzied in battle and held to be invulnerable; often off his tits on henbane and large quantities of alcohol; one who is out of control with anger or excitement.

Expand title description text
Art Biography & Autobiography Nonfiction Entertainment
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Pan Macmillan
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9781035014309
    File size: 341263 KB
    Release date: September 28, 2023
    Duration: 11:50:57

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9781035014309
    File size: 341301 KB
    Release date: September 28, 2023
    Duration: 11:57:52
    Number of parts: 10

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  • Formats
    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook
  • Languages
    English