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Jon Ronson is an award-winning writer and documentary maker. He is the author of two bestsellers: Them: Adventures with Extremists and The Men Who Stare at Goats, and two collections, Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness and What I Do: More True Tales of Everyday Craziness. He lives in London.  

Saturday 25th May 2013: Jon Ronson at the Hay Festival

The author will be reading from and discussing his latest book, Lost At Sea. A collection of mini-adventure stories from the bestselling author of The Psychopath Test and The Men Who Stare at Goats.

 

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Thinking Inside the Box: a further extract from Lost At Sea

Posted By Rosanna Boscawen on Wednesday 27th Mar 2013
 

The paperback of Lost At Sea is out tomorrow, complete with two extra stories. To celebrate, we're sharing another extract with you, 'Thinking Inside the Box', a behind-the-scenes look at the game show Deal or No Deal.

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18th December: Picador's favourite parties

Posted By Rosanna Boscawen on Tuesday 18th Dec 2012
 

This year we published Suzette Field's A Curious Invitation: The Forty Greatest Parties in Literature. Parties are at the heart of literature, they're where the drama happens; this book is a compendium of who was there, what they wore, what was eaten and who said what to whom. In tribute to all the festivities in the book, we've asked our authors to tell us a little about their best parties, real and fictional. 

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7th December: Jon Ronson has an unlikely hero of the year

Posted By Rosanna Boscawen on Friday 7th Dec 2012
 

Jon Ronson is the bestselling author of the hilarious and highly informative The Psychopath Test. His new book Lost At Sea, collection of mini-adventure stories of the chaos that lies on the fringe of our daily lives, is available now.

Read on to discover his various heroes of the real and virtual (Twitter) worlds, and his favourite books, of course.

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40 Things Jon Ronson Would Like To Do Before He Dies

Posted By Rosanna Boscawen on Thursday 22nd Nov 2012
 

Over the past month, many a giggle has been heard coming from the lift in the Picador offices. Why? Well, in honour of Picador's 40th birthday, Jon Ronson's fantastically funny contribution to The Picador Book of 40, 40 Things To Do Before I Die: A Bucket List, was stuck up on one of its walls. Since we've all had such a good laugh, we thought we'd share it with you. Happy reading.

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Markymark
Markymark commented
Saturday 2nd Feb 2013 07:16
I love Jon Ronson's books. They are a delicate balance of insight, integrity and revaluation. I feel entertained and challenged by equal measure. In Them dictators conspire to dupe us. The conspiracy theorists are right. How does Jon reveal this as a chapter of research. In '...They Stare at Goats' torture and mind control are ingredients in a book that has more interest in each individual chapter then hundreds I have read in their hyped entirety. I think we are lucky to have such an objective author. I think Joel, Jon's son is lucky. He has a father who won't judge him and will always be there for him. He is there for his fans. We make up our own minds on every word Jon writes. This is a rare skill.