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Will Storr is a British author, journalist and former photographer. He has been a contributing editor at Esquire and GQ Australia. He also works as a ghostwriter and public speaker. Career Storr has written six books under his own name. His first book, Will Storr versus The Supernatural, was an investigation into people who believe in ghosts. It included a behind-the-scenes exposé of the British television show Most Haunted and an interview with Gabriele Amorth, the Vatican’s chief exorcist. Storr also tracked down Janet Hodgson, who claimed to be focus of the Enfield Poltergeist haunting in 1977.The Heretics: Adventures with the Enemies of Science (published in the U.S. and Canada as "The Unpersuadables") was an investigation into irrational belief. Storr met creationists in Australia, the climate change denial Lord Christopher Monckton and went undercover on a trip to former World War II sites with a group of holocaust deniers and the revisionist historian David Irving.Storr’s novel The Hunger and the Howling of Killian Lone was an adult fairy tale set in a Michelin starred kitchen in 1980s London.Selfie: How We Became So Self-obsessed and What It's Doing to Us was a history of the Western self. In the book, Storr discusses the rise of social media and its effects, attributing many of the more harmful ones to increased pressure on individuals and what he calls "perfectionistic styles of thinking". In 2018 The New Yorker made a short film based on the book.The Science of Storytelling, was a Sunday Times Bestseller.The Status Game described Storr’s theory about the hidden structure of social life, focusing on the need for social status and its effects on individual human life and society.Storr also works as a ghostwriter. He wrote Ant Middleton’s memoir First Man In that was shortlisted in the 2019 British Book Awards. Journalism He has covered the South Sudanese Civil War, illegal street racing in the United Kingdom, male suicides, the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda, the abuse of sugar crop workers in El Salvador, and the race-hate killing of an Aboriginal man in Australia. He has written for media outlets including The Guardian, The Observer, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Times.He received a One World Media award, an Amnesty International award for his work regarding sexual violence against men, and an AIB award for Best Investigative Documentary in 2013 for An Unspeakable Act, a BBC World Service documentary covering human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.During his reporting in South Sudan Storr was abducted by a militia and narrowly avoided being executed.He has also been a guest on podcasts including Under The Skin with Russell Brand, The Jordan Harbinger Show, The Ezra Klein Show and The Joe Rogan Experience. Photography His portraits of survivors of the Lord's Resistance Army, a heterodox Christian rebel group, have been exhibited at Oxo Tower. Personal life He is married to Farrah Storr. His great-great uncle is the journalist, government reformer and author of the Self-Help, Samuel Smiles. Selected bibliography Will Storr vs. The Supernatural: One Man's Search for the Truth About Ghosts (2006) ISBN 0061132195 The Heretics: Adventures With The Enemies Of Science (2013) ISBN 1447208978 The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science (2014) ISBN 1468308181 The Hunger and the Howling of Killian Lone (2014) ISBN 1476730431 Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us (2017) ISBN 1468315897 The Science of Storytelling (2019) ISBN 1419743031 The Status Game: On Social Position and How We Use It (2021) ISBN 0008354634References. Discover the Will Storr popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Will Storr books.

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  • Corner Grocery Store Principles synopsis, comments

    Corner Grocery Store Principles

    Joe Mangiaracina

    Revive the Heart of Business: Cherished Lessons from the Aisles of Tradition Step through the quaint bellclad door of memory lane and into the bustling aisles of a timehonored corn...

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    The Sign of the Devil

    Oscar de Muriel

    THE FINAL FREY & McGRAY MYSTERYAll will be revealed... The Devil Has Come to Edinburgh...An illfated graverobbery unearths a corpse with a most disturbing symbol on it. When...

  • The Self Delusion synopsis, comments

    The Self Delusion

    Tom Oliver

    'A thoughtprovoking and worthwhile read' THE TIMES'A timely, challenging book' GUARDIAN'[A] rich, intriguing book' NATUREWE ARE MUCH MORE CONNECTED TO NATURE AND EACH OTHER THAN WE...

  • Soldier synopsis, comments

    Soldier

    Jay Morton

    With four years in the Parachute Regiment, ten years in the SAS and two Everest summits to his name, no one is better equipped than Jay Morton to reveal what it takes to become the...

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    Driven

    Robert Herjavec

    Robert Herjavec has lived the classic “rags to riches” story, from having $20 in his pocket to starting up technology companies worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Now the star ...

  • Happy High Status synopsis, comments

    Happy High Status

    Viv Groskop

    Redefine what confidence looks like at home and at work.Everyone wants to be able to face challenging situations without feeling daunted, intimidated or stressed. But noone wants t...

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    Desire Unchained

    Larissa Ione

    Prepare to be burned (Gena Showalter) by this sexy and suspenseful enemiestolovers paranormal romance in the New York Times bestselling Demonica series. Runa Wagner never meant to ...

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    Letters to My Ex

    Nikita Singh

    'It feels like I'm on autopilot; I have no control over anything. The pain of losing you is so crippling that I can barely hold pieces of myself together. The slightest nudge could...

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    The Nineties

    John Robb

    IF YOU REMEMBER THE NINETIES...YOU WERE THERE!The Rock 'N' Roll Fifties. The Swinging Sixties. The trashy Seventies. The moneygrabbing Eighties. There is a neat bunch of clichés fo...

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    Homecoming

    Isabel Ashdown

    'Dark, insidious, unsettling, fabulous' Sharon Bolton 'Couldn't stop reading this compelling novel of scandals and affairs at the heart of seemingly idyllic seaside community. Grea...

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    The Good Woman of Renmark

    Darry Fraser

    Adventure, romance and history combine in this thrilling 19th century journey through the South Australian bush and along the mighty Murray River in the company of a determined her...

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    The Corpse Will Keep

    Pat Capponi

    Fresh from the success of solving the murder of a roommate, Private Investigator Dana Leoni and her unlikely crew of misfit sleuths have opened a detective agency in the rundown De...

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    The No-Girlfriend Rule

    Christen Randall

    Julie Murphy meets Casey McQuiston in this unforgettable queer romance about a teen girl whose foray into fantasy tabletop roleplaying brings her new confidence, true friends, and ...

  • If I Die Before I Wake synopsis, comments

    If I Die Before I Wake

    Emily Koch

    WHAT JULY KNEW the new moving mystery by Emily Koch is available now!HOW DO YOU SOLVE YOUR OWN MURDER?Everyone believes Alex is in a coma, unlikely to ever wake up. As his family ...

  • Fugitive 13 synopsis, comments

    Fugitive 13

    Rob Sinclair

    The explosive, gripping new thriller from bestselling author Rob Sinclair for fans of Orphan X, I Am Pilgrim and Nomad.Aydin Torkal aka Sleeper 13 is on the run.Hunted not only ...

  • The Whale at the End of the World synopsis, comments

    The Whale at the End of the World

    John Ironmonger

    Previously published as NOT FORGETTING THE WHALETHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'A gentle and uplifting tale of warding off apocalypse in a remote corner of Cornwall . . . charming' Fi...

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    On The Corinthian Spirit

    D J Taylor

    In January 1929, before 20,000 spectators, Norwich City of the Third Division South went down 05 in the third round of the FA Cup to an amateur side composed of expublic school boy...

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    The Woman Downstairs

    Elisabeth Carpenter

    'Carpenter emerges as an addictive new talent' Helen FieldsCan you ever really know your neighbours?When human remains are found in a ground floor flat, the residents of Nelson Hei...

  • The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, Special 15th Anniversary Edition synopsis, comments

    The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, Special 15th Anniversary Edition

    Robin Sharma

    Includes a bonus excerpt of Robin Sharma's upcoming The Secret Letters of the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari.With more than four million copies sold in fiftyone languages, The Monk Who ...

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    Once in a Lifetime

    Jill Shalvis

    After a wrenching loss, Ben McDaniel tried to escape his grief by working in dangerous, wartorn places like Africa and the Middle East. Now he's back in his hometown and facetoface...

  • Four Minutes to Save a Life synopsis, comments

    Four Minutes to Save a Life

    Anna Stuart

    When supermarket delivery driver Charlie is assigned the Hope Row street, he realises there are a lot of lonely people out there and for some, he's their only interaction. The sup...

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    Maybe This Summer

    Jennifer Snow

    Fall in love with this fun summer read about two brokenhearted people who find their happilyeverafter in the most unexpected place. Owen McConnell is used to being ignored. After a...

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    The Energy Disruption Triangle

    David C. Fessler

    A realworld guide for adapting to the new energy eraThe Energy Disruption Triangle is a treatise on the energy revolution's realworld impacts, and a handbook for anyone looking to ...

  • Time Will Darken It synopsis, comments

    Time Will Darken It

    William Maxwell

    Pregnant with her second child, Martha King finds her marriage to lawyer Austin King more and more frustrating when her husband befriends his young foster cousin, Nora, and, in the...

  • Bhupen Hazarika synopsis, comments

    Bhupen Hazarika

    Kalpana Lajmi

    'I was seventeen when I fell in love with Bhupen Hazarika. A man older than my father.'We all know Bhupen Hazarika as a singercomposer, poet and lyricist nonpariel. What about the ...

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    Her Little Secret

    Julia Stone

    'A brilliant read!''Tight and tense! just what you want in a suspense novel''I spent most of the novel silently screaming at her to save herself as she is propelled into a hideous ...

  • Shelf Life synopsis, comments

    Shelf Life

    Martin Sneider

    A JewishAmerican family saga about the rise of its fashion retailing empire and how it splits and ultimately devastates the family.Shelf Life is a Jewish–American family saga about...

  • The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari synopsis, comments

    The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

    Robin Sharma

    With more than four million copies sold in fiftyone languages, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari launched a bestselling series and continues to help people from every walk of life live...

  • Take The Step, The Bridge Will Be There synopsis, comments

    Take The Step, The Bridge Will Be There

    Grace Cirocco

    The inspirational bestselling classic that has been providing encouragement and guidance to readers for more than a decade, Take the Step is a powerful antidote to the trials of mo...

  • To Italy, With Love synopsis, comments

    To Italy, With Love

    Nicky Pellegrino

    'An uplifting and delicious taste of Italy' ERICA JAMES'The perfect recipe for the ultimate escapist read!' VERONICA HENRY 'Knowing, compassionate and moving' CATHERINE ROBERTSON ...

  • The Fear Bubble synopsis, comments

    The Fear Bubble

    Ant Middleton

    The brilliant, inspirational next book by the author of the incredible No. 1 bestseller FIRST MAN IN.Without fear, there’s no challenge. Without challenge, there’s no growth. Witho...

  • The future of major grocery and retail stores after covid-19 synopsis, comments

    The future of major grocery and retail stores after covid-19

    Ichata Mhoudine

    Who will win customers loyalty and expectations in this post covid19 era? How this pandemic changed grocery and retail customers' behavior? Are store managers aware and know in de...

  • This Poem Will Provoke You synopsis, comments

    This Poem Will Provoke You

    Meena Kandasamy

    In this chapbook of poems, Meena Kandasamy juxtaposes the romantic ideals of love with the horrors of everyday life. Even as her love poetry plays itself out on the embattled terra...

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    Iris Grace

    Arabella Carter-Johnson

    Iris Grace is a beautiful little girl who, from a very young age, barely communicated, avoided social interaction with other people, and rarely smiled. From both before her diagnos...

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    Own It

    Aparna Jain

    #NotAllMen are the problem. #NotAllWomen are victims. But there's enough of both to warrant this book. Most women today are opting for careers over jobs, even if it requires them t...

  • Past Life synopsis, comments

    Past Life

    Dominic Nolan

    HOW DO YOU SOLVE A CRIME YOU CAN'T REMEMBER?'BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN' DAILY MAIL'ONE HELL OF A DEBUT' HEAT'A GREAT STORY TOLD WITH REAL POISE' SIMON KERNICK, SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'GR...

  • Zero Negativity synopsis, comments

    Zero Negativity

    Ant Middleton

    NO.1 BESTSELLER ANT MIDDLETON SHARES HIS SECRETS ABOUT HIS POSITIVE MINDSET AND TEACHES YOU TO LIVE A LIFE WITH ZERO NEGATIVITYThere are times when life feels like it has you corne...