Excising a cancer that never was

Belle Gibson raked in huge sums before her alleged brain cancer was exposed as a fake Pic: Australian Woman’s Weekly

Non-fiction: The Woman Who Fooled the World: Belle Gibson’s Cancer Con, and the Darkness at the Heart of the Wellness Industry, By Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano, Scribe, €17.95

As the legendary huckster PT Barnum – currently benefiting from a Hollywood airbrush-job in The Greatest Showman – once observed, there’s a sucker born every minute. He might have added that every other minute, a con artist pops out: who else, after all, is ...