Joe Wilkinson to publish autobiography
- Joe Wilkinson: My Autobiography is due to be published on 9th November
- It will chart the "bizarre events and encounters of a turbulent life", although the inclusion of a story about tunnelling out of prison suggests not all of it will be true
- Wilkinson says: "I didn't think I'd done anything in my life, then after a bang on the head while potholing in the Mendips it all came flooding back to me"
Joe Wilkinson: My Autobiography will be published later this year.
The book, which will be illustrated by Henry Paker, is due to be released in hardback and eBook formats on 9th November 2023.
Publishers Transworld has released the following explanation, suggesting that not everything in the book may be true. "Charting the bizarre events and encounters of a turbulent life, from his unconventional childhood to his formative years on the dating scene, to his brief spell doing crime and serving time, to the invention that saved him and delivered his fortune, this illustrated series of adventures takes a sledgehammer to the conventional mid-career comedy memoir.
"With stories about becoming the bad boy of fly tipping, Joe's car airbag addiction, and the time he tunnelled too far out of prison and ended up in the prison next door, this book is a delightfully absurd journey into the mind of a comic maverick."
Wilkinson told The Bookseller: "I didn't think I'd done anything in my life, then after a bang on the head while potholing in the Mendips it all came flooding back to me."
Illustrator Henry Paker, who is also a comedian, adds: "Joe is a darkly charismatic man and, I'm not going to lie, I fell under his spell. He flashed those eyes at me and before I knew it I was contractually obliged to illustrate this book."
Joe Wilkinson: My Autobiography is available to pre-order now.
Joe Wilkinson: My Autobiography
Here before you is Joe Wilkinson's brilliantly absurd account of his time on - and briefly off - planet Earth.
Through cartoon stories and illustrated adventures, Joe recounts the defining moments that have come to shape and scar him - from becoming the bad boy of fly tipping and growing into his areolas, to his car airbag addiction and the time he tunnelled too far out of prison and ended up in the prison next door.
Treating us to an assortment of genre-defying stories, Joe blows his readers' minds with the key events of his utterly pointless life.
Hilarious, heart-warming and wildly entertaining, Joe Wilkinson: My Autobiography is the off-the-wall life story of one of our most beloved and unorthodox comedians.
First published: Thursday 9th November 2023
- Publisher: Bantam Press
- Pages: 192
- Catalogue: 9781787630819
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