The Dizzee Rascal Story

Dizzee Rascal is widely regarded as one of the most important artists of the decade.

But anyone who thinks they've got the sum of this complex and unpredictable 25 year-old is in for a big surprise.

The bare bones of Dizzee Rascal's remarkable story are already well known.

Growing up without a father, expelled by numerous schools and having run-ins with the law, he could have been a poster boy for the Tory party's vision of Broken Britain.

Yet once he found an outlet for his creativity - DJ-ing and MC-ing on East London's hectic UK Garage rave and pirate circuit - he embarked on a very different course. And while Dizzee Rascal's transformation from left-field teenage prodigy to pop stardom has been a very public one, many of the defining truths of his life have so far remained private.

From the family secrets that defined his troubled upbringing, to the truth about the near-fatal multiple stabbing on the island of Ayia Napa that almost ended his career just as it was beginning, Dizzee Rascal's riveting memoir will lift the lid on a life lived at a break-neck pace.

Published in a joint venture with Dirtee Stank.