David Gillespie is a bestselling author and a lawyer with significant experience in the invention, development and commercialisation of enterprise software. For more than 10 years he has devoted himself to exposing forces in today’s society that work against our interests as consumers and citizens. Beginning with the Sweet Poison books, he followed those up with Big Fat Lies and Toxic Oil. He then focused on education in Free Schools, before returning to the topic of nutrition in Eat Real Food, then the everyday psychopath in Taming Toxic People. He then tackled the effect of screens and devices on teens in Teen Brain and how to restore mental calm and stability in Brain Reset. He then taught us how to tame the workplace psychopath in Toxic at Work.
Now he is helping us reclaim our attention from addictive technology for improved mental health and deep focus in his latest book The Attention Recovery Plan (Pan Macmillan April 2026).
