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Greg Jenner is a public historian, broadcaster, and author, and an Honorary Research Associate at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he does some occasional teaching. He is the Historical Consultant to BBC's Emmy & multiple BAFTA award-winning HORRIBLE HISTORIES, and was a key member of the team on HORRIBLE HISTORIES: THE MOVIE - ROTTEN ROMANS. He is the host of the number one BBC comedy podcast YOU'RE DEAD TO ME and the children's version, HOMESCHOOL HISTORY, and is a regular voice on BBC Radio 4. His TV appearances include BBC2's THE GREAT HISTORY QUIZ and INSIDE VERSAILLES. He has written two previous books - A MILLION YEARS IN A DAY and DEAD FAMOUS: AN UNEXPECTED HISTORY OF CELEBRITY.
Fizzes with clever vignettes and juicy tidbits... [a] joyous romp of a book. * GUARDIAN * Fizzes with clever vignettes and juicy tidbits... [a] joyous romp of a book. * GUARDIAN * [An] engaging and well-researched book... Jenner brings his material to vivid life * OBSERVER * [An] engaging and well-researched book... Jenner brings his material to vivid life * OBSERVER * A fascinating, rollicking book in search of why, where and how fame strikes. Sit back and enjoy the ride. * Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads * A fascinating, rollicking book in search of why, where and how fame strikes. Sit back and enjoy the ride. * Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads * With characteristic wit and curiosity, Jenner reveals the glamour and graft of celebrity lives in this rich, entertaining and original history. * Dr Hannah Greig, historical adviser to The Favourite and Poldark * With characteristic wit and curiosity, Jenner reveals the glamour and graft of celebrity lives in this rich, entertaining and original history. * Dr Hannah Greig, historical adviser to The Favourite and Poldark * A magical mystery tour through the history of celebrity - eye opening, provocative, triumphant. Greg Jenner is a suave and generous guide to the glittering, glamorous, often deadly world of celebrity. Dead Famous takes you deep into fabulous lives, tells all about price you pay for fame and explores why the world in which we live needs to make a few shining people into icons who thrill us, obsess us and then, finally, we want to tear apart. * Kate Williams, author and historian * A magical mystery tour through the history of celebrity - eye opening, provocative, triumphant. Greg Jenner is a suave and generous guide to the glittering, glamorous, often deadly world of celebrity. Dead Famous takes you deep into fabulous lives, tells all about price you pay for fame and explores why the world in which we live needs to make a few shining people into icons who thrill us, obsess us and then, finally, we want to tear apart. * Kate Williams, author and historian * Jenner is equal parts wide-eyed historical buff and sassy polemicist. Like some frisky, over-caffeinated lovechild of Dan Snow and Marina Hyde, he can't help but entertain you, even as he's pouring facts down your throat. * GUARDIAN - Book of the Day * Jenner is equal parts wide-eyed historical buff and sassy polemicist. Like some frisky, over-caffeinated lovechild of Dan Snow and Marina Hyde, he can't help but entertain you, even as he's pouring facts down your throat. * GUARDIAN - Book of the Day * This is a lively look at history's great and gawped at - and how they reshaped the world around them. * HISTORY REVEALED * This is a lively look at history's great and gawped at - and how they reshaped the world around them. * HISTORY REVEALED * There is an enjoyably wide range of cultural references... plenty of half-forgotten quirky treasures * SPECTATOR * There is an enjoyably wide range of cultural references... plenty of half-forgotten quirky treasures * SPECTATOR * Jenner is an engaging tour guide who smuggles some thought-provoking points about our culture into his zippy pen-portraits. * MAIL ON SUNDAY * Jenner is an engaging tour guide who smuggles some thought-provoking points about our culture into his zippy pen-portraits. * MAIL ON SUNDAY * As a tour guide through centuries of celebrity culture, Jenner acts as a kind of Oscar Wilde figure, dispensing wisdom and wit in equal measure, producing a fiendishly enjoyable and thoroughly engaging look at other people's lives. * IRISH TIMES * As a tour guide through centuries of celebrity culture, Jenner acts as a kind of Oscar Wilde figure, dispensing wisdom and wit in equal measure, producing a fiendishly enjoyable and thoroughly engaging look at other people's lives. * IRISH TIMES * Rollicking * DAILY MAIL * Rollicking * DAILY MAIL * Recommended read... entertaining and resonant stories of celebs from about 1700 to 1950. * READERS' DIGEST * Recommended read... entertaining and resonant stories of celebs from about 1700 to 1950. * READERS' DIGEST * Delivers a bounty of colourful anecdotes. * TLS * Delivers a bounty of colourful anecdotes. * TLS * A fiendishly enjoyable and thoroughly engaging look at other people's lives. * Irish Times * A fiendishly enjoyable and thoroughly engaging look at other people's lives. * Irish Times * Jenner pulls it off in a learned but entertaining book. * Who Do You Think You Are Magazine * Jenner pulls it off in a learned but entertaining book. * Who Do You Think You Are Magazine *
