I’ve written three books of popular history – about failure, falsehood and conspiracy theories respectively – and am currently working on a fourth, about the end of the world.
Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up
Spanning 3.2 million years of history, from the dawn of humanity to the present day, international bestseller Humans is a funny and fast-paced tour of our species’ most catastrophic failures – and asks just why we’re so prone to making the worst possible decisions, over and over again.
Truth: A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t
From history’s greatest con artists to the most outrageous media hoaxes, and from dubious maps to outright quacks, Truth is an outrageous – yet all-too-believable – look at how and why humans so consistently lie to each other… and, perhaps more importantly, why we so often deceive ourselves.
Conspiracy: A History of B*llocks Theories, and How Not to Fall For Them
From the real story of the Illuminati, to centuries of panic about pandemics, via UFOs, Britney Spears and the possibility that three hundred years of European history were a hoax, Conspiracy traces how beliefs that cause havoc in our world today – like QAnon and Covid myths – often have long, surprising and extremely weird backstories.
Book 4…
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