Introducing the Keith Richards Book Club

An obscure collection of short stories that sees a one-legged sailor wax lyrical on the various ways in which he might have lost his limb has become the most searched-for title on books marketplace Abebooks, following a tip from Keith Richards. 

The Rolling Stones guitarist, upon whom Johnny Depp loosely based his drunk pirate Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, picked James Norman Hall’s story collection Doctor Dogbody’s Leg as his book of choice when he appeared on Desert Island Discs. Published in 1940 and out of print, the book’s author is better known for the novel Mutiny on the Bounty, which he co-wrote with Charles Nordhoff.