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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.

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