Hermione Eyre

Would even Blair have put Felix Dennis in the Lords?

Fergus Byrne’s biography — not only authorised but commissioned — still makes the manipulative media mogul utterly repellent

issue 24 October 2015
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  • More Lives than One: The Extraordinary Life of Felix Dennis

    Fergus Byrne

    Ebury Press, pp. 369

This is not only an authorised but a commissioned biography. Felix Dennis, the tiny, depraved, manipulative media mogul, was hardly going to let a free hand choose the adjectives that defined him. The author recalls his initial fright at being contacted: “Of course I’d be delighted to speak to Felix,” I said, my voice an octave higher than normal.

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