The Castle

“Fantastic and intensely of-the-moment, The Castle explores the nature of male anxiety, the spiralling delusions of the internet, the destructive allure of anti-woke defiance, the obsequious flattery of AI chatbots, the impunity of the mega-rich and so many other currents that are currently roiling our existence. The genuine horrors of contemporary life are rendered in a way that manages to be so antic and perversely fun, without whitewashing any of the horror itself . . . It’s a dogged feat of investigation from one of our greatest non-fiction storytellers.” —Patrick Radden Keefe, author of London Falling

“Ridiculously compelling and wonderfully weird, this is a book that helps us understand why so many men seem to be unraveling, filling their lives with ill-conceived dreams and self-performance. The Castle is vintage Ronson: wise, timely and extremely funny.” —Louis Theroux

“Addictively readable, I loved The Castle. This is a much-needed book — an anti-sensationalist yet utterly compelling investigation into the masculinity crisis.” —Dolly Alderton, author of Good Material

“Jon Ronson is an essential guide in these disorienting times. I love everything that Ronson writes but The Castle is a particular gem, a story of his own making in the collapsing world of twenty-first century masculinity. Wonderfully breathless and weird and open, it feels hallucinatory and all too real at the same time.” —Sam Knight, author of The Premonitions Bureau

“The Castle is an investigation into one man that broadens into an enquiry into the state of all men. Jon Ronson is such a companiable narrator, and this book is by turns horrifying, hilarious, bizarre and gripping” —Ed Caesar, author of Moth and the Mountain

“Every Jon Ronson book has made me see the world differently. Nobody tells an unbelievable-but-true story like him. He’s done it again with The Castle: I was utterly gripped from page one. If you want a totally compelling live mystery that will make you burn for justice, READ THIS BOOK URGENTLY.” —Marina Hyde

“Brilliant…A blockbuster portrait of men gone mad.” –Publishers Weekly, starred review