A Brief History of the End of the F*cking World: The hilarious and fascinating new book from the international bestselling author of HUMANS - Couverture souple

Phillips, Tom

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1035402181 ISBN 13 : 9781035402182

Editeur : Wildfire, 2025

Synopsis

International bestseller Tom Phillips (Humans; Truth; Conspiracy) is back with a fascinating and hilarious look at armageddon through the ages

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Tom Phillips is an author and journalist. He's worked as the editor of Full Fact and editorial director of BuzzFeed UK. The four books in Tom's internationally bestselling Brief History series have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Tom lives in Cornwall with an exponentially growing number of spider plants.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Do you feel like we're living in the end times? Does it seem like everything is on fire, and one disaster follows another?

Here's a small comfort: you're not the first to feel that way. If there's one thing that people throughout history have agreed on, it's that history wasn't going to be around for much longer.

This book is about the apocalypse, and how humans have always believed it to be very f*cking nigh. Across thousands of years, we'll meet weird cults, failed prophets and mass panics, holy warriors leading revolts in anticipation of the last days, and suburbanites waiting for aliens to rescue them from a doomed Earth. We'll journey back to the 'worst period to be alive', as the world reeled from a simultaneous pandemic and climate crisis. And we'll look to the future to ask the unnerving question: how might it all end?

But it's also a book about how we live in a world where catastrophe is always looming - whether it's a madman with a nuclear button or the slow burn of environmental collapse. Because when we talk about the end of the world, what we really mean is the end of our world. Our obsession with doomsday is really about change: our fear of it, and our desire for it, and how - ultimately - we can find hope in it.

More praise for the Brief History series:

'Very funny' Mark Watson
'Witty, entertaining and slightly distressing' Sarah Knight,
'Both readable and entertaining' Telegraph

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wildfire
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1035402181
• ISBN 13: 9781035402182
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Van Ditmar Boeken, VDB Sales; sales@vanditmar.nl; ; Hondiuslaan 44; Utrecht; 3528 AB; Pays-Bas