On The Edge

An adrenalin junkie long before his association with Top Gear, Richard tells the story of his life, from the small boy showing off with ridiculous stunts on his bicycle to the adolescent with a near-obsessive attraction to speed and the smell of petrol.

After a series of jobs in local radio, he graduated to television and eventually to Top Gear. His insights into the personalities, the camaraderie and the stunts for which Top Gear has become famous, make compulsive reading.

It was whilst filming for Top Gear that Richard was involved in a high speed crash, driving a jet-powered dragster. His wife Mindy tells the story of the anxious hours and days of watching and waiting until he finally emerged from his coma. In an extraordinarily powerful piece of writing, she and Richard then piece together the stages of his recovery as his shattered mind slowly reformed.

Short-listed for British Book Awards: Tesco Biography of the Year Award 2008

Richard Hammond is internationally famous for co-presenting Top Gear with Jeremy Clarkson and James May; he also presents Total Wipeout on BBC1 and past credits include Brainiac: Science Abuse on Sky 1, Should I Worry About...? on BBC 1, Time Commanders on BBC 2, Richard Hammond's 5 O'Clock Show on ITV1 and the BBC2 quiz show Petrolheads. He also writes a weekly column in the Daily Mirror. In 2009 Richard won a Children's Bafta for his CBBC show Richard Hammond's Blast Lab. His crash whilst filming for Top Gear in September 2006 made him a household name.

An adrenalin junkie long before his association with Top Gear, Richard tells the story of his life, from the small boy showing off with ridiculous stunts on his bicycle to the adolescent with a near-obsessive attraction to speed and the smell of petrol.After a series of jobs in local radio, he graduated to television and eventually to Top Gear. His insights into the personalities, the camaraderie and the stunts for which Top Gear has become famous, make compulsive reading.It was whilst filming for Top Gear that Richard was involved in a high speed crash, driving a jet-powered dragster. His wife Mindy tells the story of the anxious hours and days of watching and waiting until he finally emerged from his coma. In an extraordinarily powerful piece of writing, she and Richard then piece together the stages of his recovery as his shattered mind slowly reformed.

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