Dandy in the Underworld [Perfect Paperback]

'Sebastian Horsley is a pervert who stands for everything that is wrong with British society today.'

(Jeremy Vine )

'He is simultaneously enthralling, charming and fantastically annoying.'

(Will Self )

'A posturing popinjay, a neon narcissist, an incorrigible entertainer'

(Jessica Berens, Observer )

'Sebastian is an atheist, but the first I've ever met whose spiritual tradition doesn't just come from a lack of imagination. His attempts to become other than he is, are epic.'

(Nick Cave )

'Dandy in the Underworld is immortality for a while (with a dashing immorality)'

(Sarah Lucas )

'A triumph...unique, funny, addictive and, like all good writing,
makes the ordinary world seem so disappointing when you put it down'

'It's fabulous - and it's a thrill a minute, beautifully written
and entertaining. Although I can't help thinking it can't possibly be all
true.'

'I felt like I'd been beaten up when I finally put it down.
I really think it's up there with Klaus Kinski's autobiography, "Uncut".
Or "A Drink With Shane McGowan".'

'I couldn't stop reading it. Freakish genius.'

'A masterpiece of filth'

`Fabulous and fascinating...Beautifully written and unflinchingly
honest, this is a mind-blowing tale of a life out of control.'

'These memoirs offer the reader a consistently hilarious season in hell....one of the funniest, strangest and most revolting memoirs ever written.'

'funny, moving and the best book of its type since Bad Blood...it is likely to be one of the most compelling reads of the year.'

'a ridiculously rude and funny writer...one of this years most talked-about books.'

This is the story of Sebastian Horsley's life. Growing up at High Hall, in Hull, with his alcoholic mother, who regularly attempted suicide, his stepfather, a cult member dressed in orange, and his father, a crippled millionaire, Sebastian Horsley couldn't wait to leave home. Searching for happiness, meaning and a good outfit he embarked on a doomed career as a punk guitarist, had a stormy relationship with a notorious Scottish gangster, enjoyed a wildly successful period as a stock-market entrepeneur and experienced a near fatal stint as a shark-hunter. Sebastian charts his years as a dandy, an artist, a male escort and a brothel connoisseur. There are the love affairs, with Rachel 1 and Rachel 2, and a harrowing descent into heroin and crack addiction. DANDY IN THE UNDERWORLD evokes his desperate attempts to get clean, culminating in his crucifixion in the Phillippines.

Sure to shock and surprise, Sebastian Horsley recounts his story with excruciating self-knowledge and a savage wit.

Sebastian Horsley has done just about everything you could ever think of. Incredibly, he is still alive.