Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality in a Counterfeit Culture

'Wide-ranging, witty and fresh ... a stimulating read. Authentic fun'
Tim Harford, Financial Times Best Summer Books 2022

'Brilliantly witty, profoundly illuminating, Alice Sherwood is a master storyteller' Simon Schama

'Thought-provoking and beautifully written' Adrian Wooldridge, Washington Post

Auteur

Currently a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Policy Institute at King's College London and a director of an open source intelligence company, Alice Sherwood has undergraduate degrees in philosophy and in chemistry, an MBA from INSEAD, and an MA in literary criticism and narrative non-fiction. She has worked in business, investigative television documentary making, and education and multimedia production at the BBC. She is chair of the Rising Tide women's network, and has served as a trustee of the Hay Festival Foundation and the London Library. She lives in London and Wales.

Authenticity is Alice's first book. It won a Royal Society of Literature Giles St Aubyn Award for Non-Fiction in 2020.