Synopsis
‘You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, especially if you’re in the book like I am’ – Steve Martin
‘An exceptionally vivid and penetrating insight into Hollywood film-making’ Observer
When, in the summer of 1986, Richard E. Grant was cast as the lead in Withnail and I, his whole world shifted and he was set firmly on the path to international stardom. With Nails is...
Details
03 April 2025336 pages
9781035062768Imprint: Picador
Reviews
In these dashing diaries of his recent years in the movies, Grant shares with candour his wonder at this aberrant universe and its inhabitantsSunday Times
An exceptionally vivid and penetrating insight into Hollywood film-making . . . What most of us want is gossip about stars, and this is something the book delivers in spades . . . Qualifies for that exclusive niche reserved for film star memoirs that are worth much more than a casual flick on the bookshop shelfObserver
Lively, hilarious memoirs . . . The lovably nervous, marvellously bitchy Grant is blessed with a fluent style, acid wit and the eternal Hollywood outsider’s passion for name-dropping, rubber-necking and raspberry-blowing . . . Grant has produced a classic Withnail himself would be proud ofVox
The honesty and likeability of the man becomes addictive. It’s not hard to read two hundred pages in a single sitting . . . this is a fast, scenic and often bizarre tale related by a credible witness . . . It’s a star-packed savagely observed delight, and as a vivid psychological insight into one actor’s complete experience of a film, it really does stand aloneEmpire
