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Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie by Jon Ronson
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Category: Biography & Memoir
In the late 1980s Jon Ronson was the keyboard player in the Frank Sidebottom Oh Blimey Big Band. Frank wore a big fake head. Nobody outside his inner circle knew his true identity. This became the subject of feverish speculation during his zenith years. Together, they rode relatively high. Then it all w ...Show more
Lost at Sea by Jon Ronson
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Picador Collection
'Funny and thought provoking' - Financial Times Fascinated by madness, strange behaviour and the human mind, Jon Ronson has spent his life exploring mysterious events and meeting extraordinary people. Collected from various sources, including GQ and The Guardian, Lost at Sea features the very best of h ...Show more
Lost at Sea by Jon Ronson
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Category: Travel
Updated edition. Now includes the complete text of Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie. Jon Ronson has been on patrol with America's real-life superheroes and to a UFO convention in the Nevada desert with Robbie Williams. He's met a man who tried to split the atom in his kitchen and asked a co ...Show more
Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries by JON RONSON
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
UPDATED EDITION INCLUDING TWO EXTRA STORIES Jon Ronson has been on patrol with America's real-life superheroes and to a UFO convention in the Nevada desert with Robbie Williams. He's met a man who tried to split the atom in his kitchen and asked a conscious robot if she's got a soul. Fascinated by madne ...Show more
Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries by Jon Ronson
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: good
Jon Ronson is fascinated by madness, extraordinary behaviour and the human mind. He has spent his life investigating crazy events, following fascinating people and unearthing unusual stories. Collected here from various sources (including the "Guardian" and "GQ America") are the best of his adventures. ...Show more
So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Picador Collection
CELEBRATING FIFTY YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKS 'It's about the terror, isn't it?' 'The terror of what?' I said. 'The terror of being found out.' The rise of social media has seen a great renaissance in public shaming. Justice has been democratized. The silent majority are getting a voice. But what are we doin ...Show more
So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
From the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame.'It's about the terror, isn't it?''The terror of what?' I said.'The terror of being found out.'For the past three years, Jon Ronson h ...Show more
The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
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Category: History | Series: Picador Collection
'Simultaneously frightening and hilarious' - The TimesThe Men Who Stare at Goats reveals the extraordinary - and completely nutty - national secrets at the core of Bush's government. Often funny, sometimes chilling and with first-hand access to the leading players, Jon Ronson's Sunday Times bestseller i ...Show more
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Picador Collection
The Sunday Times bestseller - now with a new introdution and part of the Picador Collection'The belly laughs come thick and fast' - The Observer_____What if society wasn't fundamentally rational, but was motivated by insanity? This thought sets Jon Ronson on an utterly compelling adventure into the worl ...Show more
Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Picador Collection
'Funny and compulsively readable' - Louis Theroux What if a tiny, shadowy elite rule the world from a secret room? In Them Jon Ronson sets out to find this room, with the help of the extremists - Islamic fundamentalists, neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klansmen - that believe in it. Along the way, he is chased by m ...Show more
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