a splendid anthology, both hilarious and melancholy' Spectator Witty, enchanting, engaging and moving, Hugh Massingberd's third collection of Daily Telegraph obituaries ranges in scope from well-known entertainers like Liberace and Kenneth Williams to more obscure characters such as the one-time world's fattest man and a little-known pantomime dame. This wonderfully varied, rich and humorous book will appeal to all tastes. 'a funny and moving collection' Paul Bailey

Daily Telegraph' Book of Obituaries Entertainers

Politics & Social Sciences

HUGH MASSINGBERD

Social Sciences

Pan/Macmillan

The lives chosen represent a cross-section of 20th-century experience - from the Raj and the courts and chancelleries of Old Europe to the Jet Age and global mass-media. But the shrewd character sketches tend to be of dowagers rather than dictators, boffins rather than bureaucrats, popinjays rather than philosophers. For this is an essentially sympathetic, and frequently hilarious celebration of individual human diversity, with all its flesh and blood foibles and curious sidelights related in the deadpan, delicately ironic style for which the " Telegraph" obit is famous.

Daily Telegraph' Book of Obituaries 20th Century Lives

Literature & Fiction

Classics

Physical description: xiv, 338 pages. ; 23 cm. Notes: Includes index. Includes previous owner's inscriptions. Summary: This title gathers together some of the, often amusing, obituaries that have appeared in "The Daily Telegraph". Subjects: Obituaries. Biography - Dictionaries - Great Britain. Genre: Biography.

The " Daily Telegraph" Book of Obituaries

MACMILLAN/LONDON

'Enchanting ...while writing a series of richly comic recollections which had me laughing out loud every few pages, he has now written a book with much more underlying seriousness and much more to say about the human condition than any Booker prizewinner could achieve' A. N. Wilson, Country Life 'Intensely comical ...contains some of the funniest scenes I have seen in print this year' Jeremy Paxman, Observer 'Although on route to meet plenty of people more famous ...none of them can begin to match the charm of the book's bumbling narratior in his Dickensian progression from weedy daydreamer, to failed solicitor, country squire, genealogist, obituarist and lurker at stage doors. This man is an institution, one of the great English eccentrics of our time' James Delingpole, Literary Review

Daydream Believer: Confessions of a Hero-Worshipper

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Macmillan

The label "rogue" is often accorded to politicians, businessmen and gangsters, but also to female tyrants and "femmes fatales". Featuring a full rogues gallery, this book gathers together some of the, often amusing, obituaries that have appeared in "The Daily Telegraph".

"The Daily Telegraph " Fourth Book of Obituaries: Rogues

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