Product Description
One of Britain's most fearless writers takes on real news stories in the most ambitious and innovative novel of the year
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.
About the Author
Gordon Burn was born in Newcastle in 1948 and now lives in London. He is the author of three novels, Alma Cogan (winner of the Whitbread First Novel Prize), Fullalove and The North of England Home Service, and non-fiction titles including Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son, Happy Like Murderers and Best and Edwards.
