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|title=The Lives of the Famous and the Infamous: Everything You Need To Know About Everyone Who Mattered

|sort=Lives of the Famous and the Infamous: Everything You Need To Know About Everyone Who Mattered, The

|publisher=Ebury Press

|date=September 2014

|summary=Which wartime hero foiled the Nazis by cracking the Enigma code? Which actor was infamous for playing tricks on his colleagues with his glass eye? Who was Britain's first long-haired popstar? The answers can be found in this highly entertaining collection of obituaries from The Week magazine.

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To describe a book as unputdownable is a pretty bold claim to make. Jeremy O'Grady, editor-in-chief of The Week does just that in the foreword to The Lives of the Famous and the Infamous, a collection of obituaries from the weekly magazine. Thankfully, his bold judgement is largely spot on.

Ideal for dipping into, the only criticism is a number of annoying typos. That aside, there's plenty to enjoy. Where else are you going to read about the founder of Germany's version of Ann Summers, the leader of the last cavalry charge against the British Army and a miserly millionaire who was mistaken for a tramp and thrown out of his local bank despite owning the building.

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