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Books by Gordon Burn
  | | Best and Edwards by Gordon Burn Softcover, 256 Pages, Published 2020 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-35364-4, ISBN: 0-571-35364-9 |
 | | Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son The Story of the Yorkshire Ripper (Paperback) by Gordon Burn Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2019 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-34727-8, ISBN: 0-571-34727-4 "In Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son: The Story of the Yorkshire Ripper, Gordon Burn explores the life of Peter Sutcliffe to create a modern classic, offering one of the most penetrating and provocative insights into the mind of a murderer ..." |
 | | Happy Like Murderers by Gordon Burn Paperback, 480 Pages, Published 2019 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-35365-1, ISBN: 0-571-35365-7 "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." |
 | | Fullalove (Paperback) by Gordon Burn Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2020 by Faber & Faber 2020-05-07 ISBN-13: 978-0-571-35362-0, ISBN: 0-571-35362-2 "'One of the landmark novels of the last decade.' Guardian Norman Miller used to be one of Fleet Street's finest. Now he's a middle-aged, burned-out hack with a gift for the sensational story, the shouting tabloid lead." |
 | | Sex and Violence, Death and Silence Encounters with Recent Art by Gordon Burn, Martin Elliot Paperback, 592 Pages, Published 2009 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-22929-1, ISBN: 0-571-22929-8 "'The Pop artists were among the first to understand the desire of consumers to change their lives through the purchase of clean, manufactured commodities. YBA, on the other hand, was more interested in the dirt that accrues beneath the laminate surface of shiny things. Their special perception was that cheap language and cheap materials didn't have to equal cheap thinking. The trick was to tell it in a jaunty, unportentous, off-hand, un ..." |
 | | Rachel Whiteread(1st Edition) EMBANKMENT (Unilever) by Rachel Whiteread Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2006 by Tate Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-1-85437-571-1, ISBN: 1-85437-571-7 |
 | | Damien Hirst(1st Edition) On the Way to Work by Damien Hirst, Gordon Burn, Other Criteria Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 2016 by Other Criteria Books ISBN-13: 978-0-571-20257-7, ISBN: 0-571-20257-8 ""I want it to be revealing. I'll talk about anything you like. I want it to be truthful. Let's do it. There is no off-limits. I'm afraid of nothing." Immediately recognised as a young artist with a brilliant, sordid and uncompromising imagination, Damien Hirst is the most celebrated artist Britain has produced for generations. The undisputed leader and originator of the dominant movement in contemporary art on both sides of the Atlantic ..." |
 | | Happy Like Murderers by Gordon Burn Paperback, 480 Pages, Published 2011 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-27913-5, ISBN: 0-571-27913-9 "Gordon Burn has already written a book about serial killer Peter Sutcliffe so it should be no surprise (apart from wondering at his stamina for this sort of material) that he has also taken on the macabre story of the Wests. This is a vile catalogue of the manner in which Frederick and Rosemary West raped, tortured and killed. It spares none of the utterly sordid details. Burn, who has also written two acclaimed novels (Alma Cogan ..." |
 | | Born Yesterday The News as a Novel by Gordon Burn Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2008 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-24026-5, ISBN: 0-571-24026-7 "Summer 2007 was an extraordinarily rich time for news. Floods. Foot and mouth. The disappearances of Tony Blair and Madeleine MacCann. 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 a novel about the way news is made, and the way the media creates and manipulates the stories we see before us. This is a dar ..." |
 | | Best and Edwards by Gordon Burn Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2007 by Faber And Faber Import ISBN-13: 978-0-571-21581-2, ISBN: 0-571-21581-5 |
 | | Alma Cogan by Gordon Burn, Adelle Stripe Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2004 by Faber & Faber International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-571-22284-1, ISBN: 0-571-22284-6 "How does it feel to be never allowed to die? In his classic debut novel, Gordon Burn takes Britain's biggest selling vocalist of the 1950s and turns her story into an equation of celebrity and murder. Fictional characters jostle for space with real life stars - from John Lennon to Doris Day and Sammy Davis Jnr - as Burn, in a breathtaking act of appropriation, reinvents the popular culture of the post-war years. As beautifully written a ..." |
 | | The North of England Home Service(Updated) by Gordon Burn Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2004 by Faber & Faber Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-571-21937-7, ISBN: 0-571-21937-3 "In a forensic dissection of Britain's souring landscape Gordon Burn tells the tale of Ray Cruddas, a light entertainer effecting a semi-dignified retreat from his fading career, who returns to the unnamed northern town of his youth.'Burn carves a tale of mutual dependence between two also-rans - Ray, once a successful Geordie comedian, and Jackie, an almost made-it boxer . . . It is a book about ageing, about the long haul between what ..." |
 | | Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son(Updated) The Story of the Yorkshire Ripper by Gordon Burn Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2004 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-22283-4, ISBN: 0-571-22283-8 "It seemed the case of the notorious Yorkshire Ripper was finally closed when Peter Sutcliffe was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1981. But in the early 1980s Gordon Burn spent three years living in Sutcliffe's home town of Bingley, researching his life. A modern classic, Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son offers one of the most penetrating and provocative insights into the mind of a murderer ever written. 'A book which will, with some ..." |
 | | On the Way to Work by Gordon Burn, Damien Hirst Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 2002 by Universe ISBN-13: 978-0-7893-0664-7, ISBN: 0-7893-0664-6 "Damien Hirst is one of the most controversial, influential, and fascinating artists working today, and arguably the most famous. From the controversy of his early work to the political storm surrounding the arrival of the exhibition Sensation at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, his work has redefined international expectations of modern art. Even people with only a passing knowledge of art are familiar with his installations of a shark, cows ..." |
 | | Happy Like Murderers by Gordon Burn, Antonio Resines, Herminia Bevia Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 1999 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-19546-6, ISBN: 0-571-19546-6 "Very Good, 390pp. 8vo. First printing. Spine of the d/j (not price-clipped) is sl. sunned and there is sl. creasing at the top edge. Back cover of d/j scratched. Page edges yellowed due to the low-quality paper used ; a little yellowing also to the prelims. and the last few pages. Signed by the author on the title-page." |
 | | Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son by Gordon Burn Hardcover, 274 Pages, Published 1985 by Viking ISBN-13: 978-0-670-80328-6, ISBN: 0-670-80328-6 "An extensively researched portrait of the character and motivations of Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, who was convicted in 1981 for the sadistic murders of thirteen women" |
 | | Pocket Money (Paperback) by Gordon Burn Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2020 by Faber & Faber 2020-05-07 ISBN-13: 978-0-571-35361-3, ISBN: 0-571-35361-4 "For one year, Gordon Burn travelled with this snooker circus, from Hong Kong and China to out of season resorts in the North of England and the season's finale in Sheffield." |
 | | Pocket Money by Gordon Burn 295 Pages, Published 2019 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-26697-5, ISBN: 0-571-26697-5 "For one year, Gordon Burn travelled with this snooker circus, from Hong Kong and China to out of season resorts in the North of England and the season's finale in Sheffield." |
 | | Sex & Violence, Death & Silence Encounters with recent art by Gordon Burn 391 Pages, Published 2019 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-26505-3, ISBN: 0-571-26505-7 "And then there were the drugs.' Spanning nearly 35 years, Sex & Violence, Death & Silence is a collection of the best of Gordon Burn's writing on art." |
 | | Happy Like Murderers by Gordon Burn 400 Pages, Published 2011 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-26506-0, ISBN: 0-571-26506-5 "And of course he had a cobble, working for Jim Tyler. Graham Letts was also working for G & D Services, the haulage company run by Jim Tyler. Fred drove a blue diesel minibus van that had been rigged up for him by the dog man in St Michael's Square who sold them iffy Alsatians. He had built on a roof-rack of scaffolding poles designed to carry eight-feet-by-fourfeet sheets of ply that fitted on the top. This van had scaffold poles ..." |
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