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Drawing on a rich selection of private papers and hours of interviews with Deedes and his contemporaries, Stephen Robinson charts brilliantly the depths and shallows of the life of the man who inspired Evelyn Waugh’s hapless reporter William Boot in Scoop and was the recipient of Private Eye’s famous Dear Bill letters. Deedes was also a husband and father of five and Robinson explores the rumour and reality with equal measure to reveal the true character of one of the most extraordinary men to have graced the pages of the British national press.
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...beautifully written but fair rather than fond. Robinson must be applauded for unearthing so much new information.
- Sunday Telegraph 'This intelligently probing and well-written authorised biography . . . succeeds definitively