Born in Swaziland in 1957, Richard E. Grant moved to the UK to pursue his acting career, and has been a fixture on our screens since his breakout role in Withnail and I in 1987. When his beloved wife Joan died in 2021 after almost forty years together, she set him a challenge: to find a pocketful of happiness in every day.The result is this book.Set between the present day and flashbacks to delightfully indiscreet diary entries recalling landmarks from his remarkable life and glittering career, this is an immensely personal and profound memoir that celebrates and cherishes life’s unexpected joys.Funny, moving and perceptive, A Pocketful of Happiness is an insight into the life of a much loved British actor.
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Richard Grant is a celebrated travel writer whose work delves into the exhilarating and often perilous aspects of exploration. His narratives transport readers to remote corners of the globe, capturing the spirit of adventure and the profound experiences encountered in challenging environments. Grant masterfully blends personal journey with historical context, offering a unique perspective on the places he visits and the human condition within them.






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- 2020
The Deepest South of All
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Bestselling travel writer Richard Grant offers an entertaining and profound look at a city like no other.
- 2016
The Wah-Wah Diaries
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
- 2015
Dispatches from Pluto
- 302 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Adventure writer Richard Grant explores one of the most derided, enigmatic, and fascinating regions of America: his new home, the Mississippi Delta.
- 2013
A thrilling story of three months in the most remote spot Tanzania, the Malagarasi river, the 'river of bad spirits
- 2009
A tale of high adventure in Mexico's bandit country
- 2006
Images In Juxtaposition
- 96 pages
- 4 hours of reading
Imagine, reader, that your "poetry engine" has stalled. What you need is a creative battery jumpstart. This book will do it with you. From the "Flight Poems of the Imagination" to "Live with a Thorned Heart," "Everywhere Past the Galaxy," these poems attempt to feed and characterize what becomes beauty in images into the profound and ideal, guided by a "Student of Life," pointing to the masters, in an ever- brocaded journey into rhyme and sound; you'll find yourself tasting of a higher power of the divine citing itself somewhere in time before beginning, before the bang. Those fragile words go forth to enrich those who might embark on eternity to find themselves and their deity. Sort or long the verses fall from a poetic heaven, as drops of rain in a storm, as a prelude to life, yet to be. Put yourself in the cockpit, off to find a brilliant star cluster, as far off as you'll go, where even the imaginings run dry. Counsel your peers; bring up your dregs. Carve out an empire rivaling Alexander, The Great still needs to be done. Go with God!
- 2003
Ghost Riders
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Ghost Riders combines history, travelogue and a revealing personal narrative to create a multi-dimensional map of the travelling soul. schovat popis
- 1998
A Hollywood novel about Vyvian, interior designer to the stars; his “ sister” Marga, a supposedly deaf-mute masseuse; and “ Zeitgeist” , the biggest blockbuster ever made.
- 1997
With Nails
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
This collection of diary entries follows Richard E. Grant's career from the cult movie Withnail and I to his experiences in Hollywood on such films as The Player and Dracula .

