TASCHEN, FOLIO SOCIETY, PUSHKIN PRESS, ABRAMS, APPLAUSE, QUERCUS, RUNNING PRESS
It’s taken seven decades and a role in Succession to make Brian Cox a star. This is the story of how he got there: a picaresque odyssey that goes from an impoverished Dundee childhood via the West End stage to a jobbing actor’s career in Hollywood. Johnny Depp, Ian McKellen and Steven Seagal are just a few of those Cox passes stinging judgement on in a memoir that always has time for a spiky digression. Opinionated, forthright and sometimes self-lacerating, it’s a pungent, engrossing read.