Book description
In 2001 a group of authors including Andrew O'Hagan, Tony Hawks and
Irvine Welsh were given the opportunity to visit Sudan, one of the
world's most inaccessible countries. The resulting book: The
Weekenders - Travels in the Heart of Africa was an award-winning
triumph, combining fiction and non-fiction into a compelling travel
narrative that was both entertaining and illuminating. Now the
Weekenders are back, joined by some new faces and taking on one of the
world's most fascinating and contradictory cities - Calcutta. It is a
trip like nothing you've ever seen or heard of before.
A satisfyingly sharp and wide-ranging portrait of the steamy
metropolis Daily Telegraph 20040716 An engaging read, both sharp and
deep Independent 20040806 Powerful ... affecting ... TLS 20040806
Thoroughly enjoyable ... a story for our times Literary Review 20040806
Monica Ali: Granta's 2003 Best of Young British; Brick Lane was a Sunday
Times bestseller; Irvine Welsh: Trainspotting, Filth, Porno; Tony Hawks:
Round Ireland with a Fridge, Playing the Moldovans at Tennis, One Hit
Wonderland; Victoria Glendinning: biographies of Anthony Trollope, Vita
Sackville-West and Rebecca West and novels, The Grown Ups, Electricity,
Flight; Jenny Colgan: best-selling chick-lit novelist including Amanda's
Wedding and Looking For Andrew McCarthy. Simon Garfield: prize-winning
journalist The Nation's Favourite: The True Adventures of Radio 1,
Mauve, Last Journey of William Huskisson; Bill Deedes: distinguished
journalist, recently author of 'At War with Waugh'; Colm Toibin:
celebrated Irish author The South, The Heather Blazing, The Blackwater
Lightship shortlisted for Booker; Michael Atherton: former captain of
the England cricket team, bestselling autobiography Opening Up; Bella
Bathurst: regular contributor to The Guardian and author of both highly
acclaimed non-fiction, The Lighthouse Stevensons, and fiction, Special;
Edited by Andrew O'Hagan Our Father shortlisted for Booker &
Whitbread, latest novel Personality, Granta 2003 Best Young British
Writer.
