Book description
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 them into an utterly unique novel about
the way news is made, and how the media creates and manipulates the
stories we see before us. A daring and thrilling novel from one of the
most astute observers of celebrity and tragedy, that is sure to make
the headlines itself.
Gordon Burn was the author of four novels, Alma Cogan (winner of the
Whitbread First Novel Prize), Fullalove, The North of England Home
Service and Born Yesterday. He was also the author of the non-fiction
titles Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son, Pocket Money, Happy Like
Murderers, On The Way to Work (with Damien Hirst) and Best and Edwards.
His last book, Sex & Violence, Death and Silence, was a collection
of his essays on art.
