Praise for the Brief History series:
'This book is brilliant. Utterly, utterly brilliant. Apart from the epilogue, which is idiotic' JEREMY CLARKSON
'Witty, entertaining and slightly distressing . . . You should probably read it' SARAH KNIGHT
'In dark times, it's reassuring to learn that we've always been a bunch of clueless f*cking nitwits' STUART HERITAGE
'If you ever find yourself looking at the news and wondering how humanity has got so many things wrong, over and over again, this book is a very funny answer to just that question' MARK WATSON
'A light-touch history of moments when humans have got it spectacularly wrong . . . Both readable and entertaining' TELEGRAPH

Tom Phillips (Author)
Tom Phillips is the editor of Full Fact, Britain's leading independent fact-checking organisation. Previously he was the editorial director of BuzzFeed UK, where he divided his time between very serious reporting on important issues... and making jokes.
Tom's first book, HUMANS: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up, was published in 2018, and has since been translated into more than 30 languages. Tom's second book, TRUTH: A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t was published in 2019 and has so far sold in 20 territories.
Jonn Elledge (Author)
Jonn Elledge is a New Statesman columnist and a contributor to the Big Issue, the Guardian, the Evening Standard and a number of other newspapers. He was previously an assistant editor at the New Statesman, where he created and ran its urbanism-focused CityMetric site, spending six happy years writing about cities, maps and borders and hosting the Skylines podcast. He has written three books, as well as over a hundred editions of the Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything. He lives in London.