An A-Z of Hellraisers is the last word on inebriated misbehaviour, and the miscreant mob in this whopper of a book constitute the most amazing grouping to see print: from Alexander the Great, whose drunken revelries once ended with the destruction of an entire city;
Contains some hair-raising anecdotes and some priceless one-liners
Robert Sellers is the author of the bestselling
Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole and Oliver Reed and
Hollywood Hellraisers. He has also written biographies on Tom Cruise, Harrison Ford and Sean Connery,
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, a history of the George Harrison/Monty Python film company HandMade, and the controversial
Battle for Bond, which for a time was banned by the family of Ian Fleming
. He was a regular contributor to
Empire, Total Film,
Independent, SFX and
Cinema Retro and
has contributed to a number of television documentaries, including Channel 4's
The 100 Best Family Films.