This is a book about TRUTH - and all the ingenious ways, throughout history, that we´ve managed to avoid it. We live in a ´post-truth´ age, we´re told. The US has a president who openly lies on a daily basis (or who doesn´t even know what´s true, and doesn´t care). The internet has turned our everyday lives into a misinformation battleground. People don´t trust experts any more. But was there ever really a golden age of truth-telling? As the editor of the UK´s leading independent fact-checker, Tom Phillips deals with complete bollocks every day. Here, he tells the story of how we humans have spent history lying to each other - and ourselves - and asks an important question: how can humanity move towards a truthier future?