Derren Brown: ‘I’m being honest about my dishonesty’
The magician, hypnotist and illusionist talks about trickery and mindgames – and keeping an audience entertained I wasn’t sure what to expect from a book by Derren Brown, but it certainly wasn’t the great waves of self-loathing that roll out of its pages. Opening with the line, “I loathed myself again,” Confessions of a Conjuror expands into a merciless prosecution of the author’s shortcomings …

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