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An excoriating, needle-sharp and superbly funny attack on the 'stars' who abuse their fame

This hilarious romp through modern culture by the Guardian columnist highlights the bizarre reach of hollow fame these days... Shudder-inducingly funny

If you like sharp, funny and super-smart, Marina Hyde is your woman

She is one of those rare writers who are the same in person as they are on the page, damn good fun... It's a brilliant read, a surreal whistle-stop tour through the rogues' gallery of 21st century celebrities

Much of Hyde's material will be familiar...made me laugh out loud...outrageous and opening

A smart, sassy and brilliantly funny deflation of some Zeppelin-sized egos

Hyde presents a compelling and well backed-up argument that real damage is being done...funny, fast and ultimately frightening

Described with razor-sharp wit, Hyde's glorious assemblage of celeb fatuities would be sensational satire if it were fiction. Only it isn't

Perceptive. Entertaining. Riveting. Horrifying - that is Celebrity by Marina Hyde

How Entertainers Took Over The World and Why We Need an Exit Strategy

A brilliant, hilarious thinking person's guide to a world obsessed to the point of lunacy by celebrity: a guide to our times and a classic piece of comic writing.

Marina Hyde read English at Christ Church, Oxford, and started in journalism as a temporary secretary on the Sun's showbiz desk. She has worked at the Guardian since 2000, where her three weekly columns - on sport, celebrity and politics - have won her a reputation as one of the funniest and most admired journalists in the UK. She lives in London.

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