THIS MUCH IS TRUE

Educated at Cambridge but born in Oxford in 1941, Miriam Margolyes is a veteran of stage and screen and an acclaimed voice artist, and a potty mouth she has too! 'I have no secrets. I decided very early on in life that the strongest position was to be completely open.' Creator of myriad unforgettable characters from Lady Wiseadder to Professor Sprout, Miriam is the nation's favourite and most cheeky national treasure. At the age of 80 she finally decided to tell her life story. Find out how being conceived during an air raid gave her curly hair, what pranks led her to being known as the naughtiest girl ever to be educated at Oxford High School, and how as a teenager she ended up posing nude for Augustus John. Find out what she did when Warren Beatty asked 'Do you fuck?' and much more, with a cast list stretching from Martin Scorsese to Barbra Streisand, a cross-dressing Leonardo DiCaprio to an incomprehensible Isaiah Berlin, this biography is as full of life and surprises as its shockingly honest author. 438pp, many photos including colour.