Voodoo Histories: collection The Sunday Times Bestseller featured on Hoaxed podcast NEUF

A stinging attack of the laughable and sometimes sinister world of modern day conspiracy theories, with a new chapter on the current controversy surrounding Obamas birth. Examining conspiracy theories from the past 100 years, Aaronovitch explores why people are so ready to believe in them, and the dangers involved. Covers Pearl Harbor, the 9/11 truth movement, and that perennial favourite, the moon landings.

David Aaronovitch is collection an award-winning journalist, who has worked in radio, television and newspapers in the United Kingdom since the early 1980s. He lives in Hampstead, north London, with his wife, three daughters and Kerry Blue the terrier. His first book, Paddling to Jerusalem, won the Madoc prize for travel literature in 2001 and his second, Voodoo Histories, was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller.