The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
$25.93
- Paperback
1024 pages
- Release Date
6 October 2026
Summary
‘A fascinating, tragic and instructive story, vividly told’ Sunday Telegraph
Roger Lewis, in his no-holds-barred biography, exposes a Peter Sellers the world little knows. Recognized as the greatest British comic since Charlie Chaplin, Sellers was the grand master of fifty-five films - from Dr. Strangelove, to Being There and the Pink Panther hits.
But shadowing his phenomenal career was a history of increasingly bizarre behaviour involving psychotic violence, compulsiv…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529444025 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529444020 |
| Author: | Roger Lewis, Steve Coogan |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | riverrun |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 1024 |
| Release Date: | 6 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 705g |
| Dimensions: | 48mm x 128mm x 196mm |
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Critics Review
Everything one could possibly want to know about Sellers is contained in this book. * New York Times *
Sensational … consistently engrossing * Daily Mail (Book of the Week) *
Gloriously revealing, funny and tragic … Sellers is a gift to his new biographer’s talents * Mirror *
The showbiz book of the year * Christopher Bray, The Tablet *
Lewis’ portrait of this most complex of figures is as funny, maddening and enthralling as its subject * Daunt Books (Five Favourite Books of the Week) *
Roger Lewis
Roger Lewis has achieved considerable word-of-mouth success with Seasonal Suicide Notes. He has also written a biography of Anthony Burgess, and Sunday Times best-selling books on Laurence Olivier and the Carry On actor Charles Hawtrey. His most recent book, Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor was described by Stephen Fry as: ‘One of the very best biographies I have ever read’.
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