Gordon Burn: 3 books
Born Yesterday
The News as a Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Summer 2007 was an extraordinarily rich time for news. Floods. Foot and mouth. The disappearances of Tony Blair and Madeleine McCann. The arrival of Gordon Brown. Terror attacks in Glasgow. And Gordon Burn, artist, journalist and true-crime author, has taken the events from this bleak summer and turned...
by Gordon Burn
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Spring 2001, and the countryside of the North East of England resembles Fitzgerald's 'valley of ashes': the air is choked with the stench and smoke of the pyres which are burning in an attempt to contain the epidemic of foot and mouth disease.
After forty years away, Ray Cruddas, a comedian...
by Gordon Burn
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
An account of two people - Fred and Rose West - who lived together, raised (and killed) children, provided sexual services for anyone interested, and pretended to provide social services for single women. Investigated and told by one of the greatest journalists and writers of the last twenty years, this is the most powerful and upsetting true crime book you will ever read.