Dead Famous (novel) belongs to an amateur dramatics society that is starting rehearsals for a performance of Macbeth, one of Coleridge's favourite plays. He desperately wishes to play the lead, but the director wants someone younger to play the lead part. Coleridge's success in solving the murder wins him the part. The idea of Banquo's ghost is Coleridge's method of forcing a confession out of the murderer. The novel is dedicated to the contestants of the first Big Brother series in the UK, the second Big Brother series in the UK and the first Big Brother series in Australia. The book parodies the
The Famous Five (novel series) Beginning in September 1985 a series of monthly Comic Magazine titles "Enid Blyton's Adventure Magazine" were published. Each issue published a full length illustrative comic book story adapted from Famous 5 Novels. The series came to end in the 1990s. The Five inspired the Comic Strip parody "Five Go Mad in Dorset" and its sequel "Five Go Mad on Mescalin", in which the characters express sympathies with Nazi Germany and opposition to the Welfare State, homosexuals, immigrants and Jews, in an extremely broad parody not so much of Blyton but of wider perceived 1950s prejudices. The parodies were deliberately set