The first volume of Brian Sewell’s scandalous and haunting memoir was met by riotous applause in the press. ‘Outsider is a delicious read … I want more – much more,’ wrote Rachel Cooke in the Guardian. ‘This book records an extraordinary life and will, I hope, soon be continued,’ added Lynn Barber in the Sunday Times. Outsider II will certainly not disappoint. With the first instalment ending tantalisingly in 1967 – after exploring Sewell’s childhood, adolescence and early adulthood – this next chapter charts his path to becoming, as the Spectator noted, ‘Surely the funniest art critic of our time.’