LOSING MY VIRGINITY

BOOK BY ITS COVER

A black-and-white shot of Branson proudly gazing into the distance like some kind of romance-novel hero

AUTHOR’S CURRENT NET WORTH

US$4.4 billion

WE OPEN ON...

A flight on the Virgin Global Challenger hot-air balloon. Branson and his friends were attempting to circumnavigate the world, starting in Morocco.

They crashed in the Sahara Desert

FIRST PAYDAY

10 shillings from his Auntie Joyce for learning to swim

AMAZON RANKING

#106,078 in Kindle Store

REVIEWS

“Surprisingly, Branson comes off as a lovable underdog battling the establishment, instead of a spoiled tycoon.” – Tom Faucett, CNN

WEIRD FLEX

Won a case where the manager of a Virgin Records shop was arrested because the poster for a Sex Pistols’ album used the word ‘bollocks’ (the group was signed to Branson’s record label at the time). A linguistics professor argued on behalf of Virgin that ‘bollocks’ was an old nickname for ‘priests’ or ‘rubbish’ and that it was therefore not offensive

IN THE YEAR THE BOOK WAS PUBLISHED, HE...

Flew a hot-air balloon from Morocco to Hawaii. He still didn’t make it all the way around the world, though