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• Turkish edition of Fear: An Alternative History of the World published by Literatür (January 2025).
• Interview with Tomasz Targánski for the Polish magazine Polityka (January 2025).
• Review in Diario de Sevilla by Manuel Gregorio González, ‘Miedos del mundo moderno’ (January 2025).
• Review in ABC by César Antonio Molina, ‘Miedo de Robert Peckham: el terror puesto a día’ (December 2024).
• Review in Página|12 by Rodrigo Fresán, ‘Homo Miedoso’ (December 2024).
• Review in Hearsay, online journal of the Bar Association of Queensland, by Stephen Keim (December 2024).
• Polish edition of Fear: An Alternative History of the World published by Znak in a translation by Aleksandra Ożarowska (November 2024).
• Interview with James Hanson on Times Radio (September 2024).
• Fear chosen by The Guardian as one of the month’s best paperbacks (September 2024).
• Interviewed by Fèlix Badia for La Vanguardia, ‘La Revolución Industrial desató los mismos miedos a la tecnología que hoy’ (August 2024).
• Interview with Martina Saltamacchia for Nuova Atlantide, the international quarterly publication of the Italian think tank Fondazione per la Sussidiarietà (August 2024).
• Review in Zenda by Fran Navarro, ‘El motor de la historia es el miedo’ (July 2024).
• Review in The Objective by Rafael Núnez Florencio, ‘¿Se ha convertido el miedo en el motor de la Historia?’(July 2024).
• Interview with Rebecca Yanke in El Mundo (May 2024).
• Spanish edition of Fear  translated by Pablo Hermida Lazcano published by Ediciones Paidós (April 2024).
• Talk at the Oxford Literary Festival (March 2024).
• Tom Etherington’s cover for Fear shortlisted for the ABCD best British non-fiction cover design of the year award (March 2024).
• Interview with Anthony Funnell on ABC Radio National’s Future Tense (March 2024).
•  Interview with Marit Eriksdatter Gjellan for the Norwegian podcast Diving Deep (February 2024).
• Interview with Jumoké Fashola on BBC Radio London (December 2023).
•  Review of Fear in the Dutch newspaper NRC (December 2023).
•  Review of Fear by Nik Durga in the New Zealand Listener (November 2023).
•  Interview with Jonathan Wai in Psychology Today (November 2023).
•  Frederica Bortoluzzi, ‘Vivamo tempi drammatici, dobbiamo imparare a usare la paura come forza per reagire,’ The Vision (November 2023).
• Interview with William Coldwell in The Observer (October 2023).
• Interview with Murray La Vita in South Africa’s Netwerk24 (October 2023).
• Interview with Neil Denny on the Little Atoms podcast (October 2023).
• Discussion with Alex Andreou on The Bunker podcast (October 2023).
• Interview with Vikas Shah for Thought Economics (October 2023).
• Interview on Radio New Zealand’s Nine to Noon (October 2023).
• Discussion with Sophie McBain, Associate Editor for the New Statesman, on the Intelligence Squared podcast (October 2023).
  
• Discussion with historian Kate Lister on the History Hit podcast, Betwixt the Sheets (September 2023).
• Interview on the BBC’s podcast History Extra (September 2023).
• Interview on RTÉ Radio 1, The Business with Richard Curran (September 2023).
• Fear: An Alternative History of the World was included in Martin Chilton’s “biggest new books” for September in The Independent, alongside Zadie Smith and Sebastian Faulks.

Coming Soon

• Book reading at Desperate Literature, Madrid (February 2025).
• Speaker at VIII Foro de la Cultura, Valladolid and Madrid, Spain (February 2025).
• Japanese edition of Fear: An Alternative History of the World coming out (March 2025).
  
• Featured writer, Backstory. Non-Fiction Book Club (March 2025).
  
• Fear: An Alternative History of the World will be coming out in Arabic and published by the Arabic Cultural Center (ACC), Markaz Takafi Arabi, a publishing house founded in 1981 and based in Casablanca, Morocco.