The Heretics
07 March 2019Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Why do obviously intelligent people believe things in spite of the evidence against them?
Will Storr has travelled across the world to meet an extraordinary cast of modern heretics in order to answer this question. He goes on a tour of Holocaust sites with David Irving and a band of neo-Nazis, experiences his own murder during 'past-life regression' hypnosis, takes...
Details
07 March 2019871 minutes
Ben Allen
9781529016307Imprint: Picador
Reviews
‘I loved it . . . funny, serious, richly vivid . . . Read this book.’ Daily Telegraph
An investigation not only of outlandish belief systems, but of all belief systems . . . engaging' Sunday Times
'Storr can open chapters like a stage conjurer, and his prose has an easy, laconic style embracing Jon Ronson's taste for the fabulously weird and Louis Theroux's ability to put his subjects at ease. He is a funny and companionable guide . . . [who] confounds expectations.' Guardian
'Incontrovertibly brilliant' Esquire
