Danny Wallace

Have you been keeping your eye on your grandma lately? Have you been calling her enough? You sure she’s not spending too much time on YouTube? Is she talking fondly of dictators? Has she suddenly started quietly muttering in the Aldi queue about the “Jewish Space Lasers” she’s heard are setting wildfires around the world to make sure everyone believes in climate change? When was the moment the world began to believe anything? Danny Wallace, million-copy bestselling author of Yes Man and Join Me, has fallen down the modern rabbit hole of lies, conspiracies and disinformation. Along the way, he encounters families torn apart by accusations and fake news, journalists putting themselves on the frontline of the disinformation war, reformed conspiracy theorists, influencers who see profit in stoking paranoia, and the shadowy nameless, faceless trolls on the other side of our screens. He discovers how disinformation and well-told lies can ruin a year or a whole life, how they can affect our family, our street, our community. How they can spread across a country, a continent, even the world. How they take hold of our imaginations and make us feel both helpless and powerful. And Danny asks: can you do anything to stop it – even with the truth on your side?

You're not imagining it. People are getting ruder. And this is a serious problem. The book that inspired the iTunes Top Ten podcast Did you know that even one rude comment in a life and death situation can decrease a surgeon's performance by as much as 50%? That we say we don't want rude politicians, but we vote for them anyway? Or that rude language can sway a jury in a criminal case? Bestselling writer and broadcaster Danny Wallace (Yes Man, Awkward Situations For Men), is on a mission to understand where we have gone wrong. He travels the world interviewing neuroscientists, psychologists, NASA scientists, barristers, bin men, and bellboys. He joins a Radical Honesty group in Germany, talks to drivers about road rage in LA, and confronts his own online troll in a pub. And in doing so, he uncovers the latest thinking about how we behave, how rudeness, once unleashed, can spread like a virus - and how even one flippant remark can snowball into disaster. As insightful and enthralling as it is highly entertaining, F*** You Very Much* is an eye-opening exploration into the worst side of human behaviour. "A cry for human decency... deliciously hilarious. I politely encourage you to read this book. Immediately." Adam Grant author of Originals, Give and Take, Option B *This book was originally published under the title, I Can't Believe You Just Said That. But we decided it just wasn't rude enough...

Kniha známého britského moderátora, herce, filmového tvůrce a autora knih pro dospělé čtenáře je vhodnou četbou pro fanoušky knížek Roalda Dahla, Davida Walliamse či Toma Gatese. Co byste dělali, kdyby... se celý svět naráz zastavil? Ano, úplně celý, se vším všudy – jako v pohádce o Šípkové Růžence. Ptáci by strnuli uprostřed letu, letadla by nehybně visela ve vzduchu, lidé by se nehýbali – všichni kromě vás! Přesně tohle se stane desetiletému Hamishovi. A na svědomí to mají Světokazi a jejich děsiví přátelé. Chtějí totiž ovládnout svět! Jo, a nesnáší děti. Zvlášť ty, které o nich vědí. Jako Hamish. Je vám jasné, co Hamishovi hrozí? A je vám jasné, co se stane, když Hamish nepřijde na to, jak na tyhle zloduchy vyzrát? Ne? No tak to si nechte vyprávět!