The World's Greatest Alien Conspiracy Theories

by Nigel Cawthorne

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 5, 2002

About the author

Nigel Cawthorne is an Anglo-American writer of fiction and non-fiction, and an editor. He has written more than 80 books on a wide range of subjects and has contributed to The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph Daily Mail and The New York Times. He has appeared on television and BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

Many of Nigel Cawthorne's books are compilations of popular history, without footnotes, references or bibliographies. His own web site refers to a description of his home as a "book-writing factory" and says, "More than half my books were commissioned by publishers and packagers for a flat fee or for a for a reduced royalty".

One of his most notable works was Taking Back My Name, an autobiography of Ike Turner, with whom he spent a number of weeks working with him on, taking up residence in Turner's house. The book caused much controversy, resulting in court cases for three years following its release.

Cawthorne currently lives in Bloomsbury, London with his girlfriend and son, Colin (born 1982).

Reviews

[David Punton · Rating 1 out of 5]

impressive to take a subject which i find fascinating, and yet be so unceasingly grammatically, typographically and epistemologically inept as to leave me with nothing except hate for this entire book

(minus the four-page long quote ripped from jacques valle)

also, he uses “pressurise” instead of “pressure” at one point—this is sincerely one of very few things that i think for which we should bring back capital punishment