In 2013, journalist Ginger Gorman was trolled online and terrified, but after the attack subsided, she found herself inquisitive. Who were these trolls? How and just why did they coordinate such an attack? And how will someone fight?

Over the next five years, Gorman spoke to psychologists, trolling victims, police, academics and, most of all, trolls themselves, embedding herself to their online communities and their psyches in ways she had under no circumstances anticipated. She uncovered links between trolling, cyberhate and real-life crimes. She mapped out a cohort of men – mostly furious, young and white – who rightly or wrongly feel marginalised and disenfranchised and use the internet to express this.

Troll Hunting can be an utterly engrossing, often frightening, but ultimately eye-opening and important home window into the state of mind of trolls and how they reflect a genuine aspect of our society. It will change how you think about the internet, and what this means to be a human online.